Wreck: Cranford (possibly) (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Cranford (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 49.39 N,1 4.599 W (54.823167, -1.076650)
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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.
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Shipwreck details
Name: CRANFORD (POSSIBLY)
Length 89.3 meter, width: 11.4 meter, draught: 5.7, tonnage 2293 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,metal: concentrate and products,non-ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,armament
Cause: built in 188 by w grey & co, west hartlepool. owned at time of loss by london & northern ss co (pyman bros, manager). two boilers, triple expansion engine of 240nhp for 9 knots, single shaft. passage the tyne for pozzuoli. cargo of gun mountings, machinery, steel billets, lead ingots and general. distress signals seen off hartlepool during the night of 12/13 october with a full hurricane blowing. wreckage and some bodies washed ashore over the following few days. (sibi).
Year of registration: 1988
Water depth above wreck: 48 meter, Height above seabed: 175 cm
Known since: 1988
Details measurements/cartography: H6330/87 15.7.88 H6330/87 15.7.88 WK 42.6 IN GEN DEPTH 47.9MTRS, IN 544923N, 010430W [OGB]. (GARDLINE SURVEYS, TELEX 19.6.88, HI 414A). NCA YET. H6330/87 14.11.88 H6330/87 14.11.88 EXAM'D 3.6.88 USING TRISPONDER [7 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 42.6 IN GEN DEPTH 47.9MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 48.5MTRS. DCS3 HT 4.9MTRS, LENGTH 88MTRS, BEAM 20MTRS. LIES 175/335 DEG, APPARENTLY BROKEN UP AND PARTIALLY BURIED. AN ISOLATED PIECE OF WRECKAGE WAS LOCATED 40MTRS N OF MAIN WK. (GARDLINE SURVEYS, HI 414A). BR STD. 8.5.07 8.5.07 THIS COULD BE CRANFORD. (R YOUNG, EMAIL). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN UP AND PARTIALLY BURIED
Position: 54 49.39 N,1 4.599 W
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