This is the information page about the shipwreck Crown of india (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 50.88 N,6 18.123 W (50.585, -6.5837833333333)

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: CROWN OF INDIA (POSSIBLY)

Length 84.3 meter, width: 12.3 meter, draught: 7.3, tonnage 2034 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1885 by ramage & ferguson, leith. owned at time of loss by j joyce & co, liverpool. passage barry for pernambuco. captured by german submarine and sunk by gunfire. (ww1sl & sibi).

Year of registration: 1915

Water depth above wreck: 94 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1915, last detected: 1991

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 70 MILES WSW FROM ST ANNS HEAD. (WW1SL). SUNK IN 505500N, 063500W, APPROX. (LLOYDS WAR LOSSES). H2979/74 23.9.77 WK REPORTED IN 504959N, 063647W USING DECCA. (E. GILES, 16.5.77). 1.10.79 CHART AS NDW IN 504959N, 063647W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). - NC 1178. HH6346/87/2 12.12.91 NOTHING FOUND IN CHARTED POSN DURING AREA SONAR SEARCH. BUT A WK WAS LOCATED AND EXAM'D 10.7.91 IN 505053N, 061808W [WGD] USING HYPERFIX. LEAST E/S DEPTH 90 IN GEN DEPTH 94MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 4.5MTRS, LENGTH 73MTRS, WIDTH 30MTRS. LIES E/W, BROKEN UP AND SPREAD OVER LARGE AREA WITH SHOALEST DEPTH NEAR ITS SOUTHERN EDGE. (HMS FAWN, HI 429). INS WK 90MTRS BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN UP & SPREAD AROUND

Position: 50 50.88 N,6 18.123 W

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