This is the information page about the shipwreck Cresswell (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 31.184 N,5 29.98 W (53.625166666667, -5.4926666666667)

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: CRESSWELL (PROBABLY)

Length 96.9 meter, width: 14 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 2829 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1917 by w grey & co ltd, west hartlepool. owned at time of loss by furness, withy & co ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 245 nhp, single shaft. machinery by central marine engine works ltd, w hartlepool. passage glasgow for gibraltar. torpedoed by u-46. no lives lost. (sii).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 107 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 1984

Details measurements/cartography: POSN 18M E BY N 0.25 N FROM KISH LTV. (WW1SL). ACCEPT 532900N, 053000W PA. H5141/53 14.8.53 H5141/53 14.8.53 INS NDWPA ON NC 1411. H4466/81 29.2.84 H4466/81 29.2.84 EXAM'D 27.6.83 IN 533110N, 052955W [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 97 IN GEN DEPTH 107MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 2MTRS. DCS3 HT 11MTRS, LENGTH 70MTRS, BEAM 16MTRS. ORIENTATED NE/SW, INTACT AND UPSIDE DOWN. NO PROJECTIONS VISIBLE. (HMS FOX, HI 95). INS AS WK 96MTRS. BR STD. [WGD] POSN: 5331.184N, 0529.980W. BA 44.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT & INVERTED

Position: 53 31.184 N,5 29.98 W

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