This is the information page about the shipwreck Corsican prince, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 30.076 N,0 29.013 W (54.501267, -0.483550)

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: CORSICAN PRINCE

Length 96.3 meter, width: 12.8 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 2776 ton
Load: wood: unprocessed and products,railway: stock and construction materials

Cause: ex-briardale. built in 1900 by short bros, sunderland. owned at time of loss by price line ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 265hp, single shaft. passage dundee for cunkirk. cargo wood. torpedoed by ub 34.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 49 meter, Height above seabed: 170 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 20161214

Details measurements/cartography: H5103/83 30.9.86 FASTENER IN 543005N, 002837W. (KINGFISHER OBSTN BOOKLET - WHITBY AREA). H6331/87 26.1.89 EXAM'D 25.6.88 IN 543005N, 002855W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 39.2, FOUL AT 39.6MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 41.3 IN GEN DEPTH 50MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 9.9MTRS, LENGTH 110MTRS, BEAM 15MTRS. LIES 165/345 DEG, IN ONE PIECE AND WITH HIGH POINT AT S END (POSSIBLY NETS). (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). INS AS SW 39MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/17 25.4.01 FIRST DIVED IN 1996. STERN STANDS HIGH AND LEANS OVER TO PORT. THE AFT HOLDS ARE UPRIGHT WITH A WINCH BETWEEN THEM. MIDSHIPS THE ENGINE HAS FALLEN 90 DEGS TO PORT. TWO SCOTCH BOILERS. STEERING PEDESTAL LOCATED IN FRONT OF THE BOILERS ON THE STBD SIDE. TIMBER CARGO (SLEEPERS) IS EVIDENT IN THE FWD HOLDS. UNNAMED BELL LOCATED ON PORT SIDE BEHIND THE BOW. IDENTITY BASED ON LENGTH, CARGO AND ENGINE ROOM DAMAGE. (A C JACKSON/C A RACEY). NCA. SEP 2017/000002822 3.5.17 EXAM'D 14.12.16; IN 5430.076N, 0029.013W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 41.30MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 49MTRS, LENGTH 100.3MTRS, WIDTH 15.9MTRS, HEIGHT 9MTRS, ORIENTATION 170/350 DEGS. WRECK APPEARS UPRIGHT AND INTACT BUT IS SEVERELY DISINTEGRATED. (MMT, HI 1491). AMEND NDW 41MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 30.076 N,0 29.013 W

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