This is the information page about the shipwreck Cork, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 32.534 N,4 11.35 W (53.542233, -4.189167)

The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.

Name: CORK

Length 79.2 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1232 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: torpedoed by german submarine u 103. was on passage dublin to liverpool.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 43 meter, Height above seabed: 38 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20210810

Details measurements/cartography: M5063 & M.4882 1918 SANK IN POSN 9M NE OF POINT LYNAS. (MASTER). INS AS DW. H6022/39 16.8.39 NOT FOUND. (HMS GLEANER). DELETED. BR STD. H3838/86 20.8.87 LOCATED IN 533231N, 041117W [OGB] USING HIFIX. LEAST E/S DEPTH OBTAINED 36MTRS. (HMS FAWN, HI 357). INS AS WK 36MTRS.

- NM 2699/87. H3838/86 29.3.88 EXAM'D BY HMS BULLDOG WITH HYDROSEARCH ON 30.9.87 USING HIFIX/6 & TRISPONDER. LEAST E/S DEPTH 36 IN GEN DEPTH 44MTRS. SCOUR 2MTRS DEEP. DCS3 HT 7.7MTRS; HYDROSEARCH VERTICAL HT 7.9MTRS, SHADOW HT 8.1MTRS. LENGTH 86MTRS, BEAM 12.5MTRS. INTACT AND UPRIGHT, LYING 035/215DEG WITH BOW NE. (HMS FAWN, HI 357). NFA. HH100/351/03 28.9.90 DIVED ON 16.9.90. BELL AND CROCKERY, BEARING CREST OF 'CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM PACKET COMPANY' POSITIVELY IDENTIFIES WK AS THE CORK. LIES AS DESCRIBED IN SURVEY. MOST OF SUPERSTRUCTURE HAS COLLAPSED AND SEABED IN VICINITY STREWN WITH WRECKAGE. HAS A VERY LARGE HOLE ON PORT SIDE AMIDSHIPS. (K F HURLEY, 19.9.90 & 30.10.90). 15.10.04 WK, LYING IN 37MTRS, IS KNOWN TO CONTAIN MUNITIONS. (DIVER MAGAZINE OCT'04) SEP2022/000028019 12.04.22 EXAM'D 10.08.2021; IN 5332.534N, 0411.350W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 33.82MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 43MTRS. LENGTH 79.4MTRS, WIDTH 13MTRS, HEIGHT 9.3MTRS, ORIENTATION 038/218 DEGS. UPRIGHT WRECK. (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY AB, HI1507 - H525-7363). AMEND NDW 33MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Upright wreck. UK NM 3761/22

Position: 53 32.534 N,4 11.35 W

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