This is the information page about the shipwreck Cuba, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 36.036 N,0 58.656 W (50.4907, -0.9725167)

 

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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.

 

1. Angry fish
2. Armenier
3. Arno (possibly)
4. Axwell
5. Basil-2
6. Bettann (bow section)
7. Cambrian princess (probably)
8. Carbineer
9. Cuba
10. Donegal (possibly)
11. Elford
12. Flag theofano
13. Fort yale
14. Fpt iv
15. Gerarda
16. Germa geisha
17. Hedwig lunstedt
18. Hmcs alberni
19. Hms apley (possibly)
20. Hms evadne (possibly)
21. Hms hazardous
22. Hms prince leopold
23. Hms sapper
24. Hmsm a1
25. Lowmount
26. Montecrana (possibly)
27. Polandia (possibly)
28. Sines (possibly)
29. Spearfish
30. Teelin head
31. U 1195
32. Ub 81

 

Name: CUBA

Length 145.1 meter, width: 18.9 meter, draught: 10.7, tonnage 11420 ton

Cause: Built in 1923 by swan hunter & wigham richardson. owned at time of loss by the ministry of war transport. two triple expansion engines, twin shaft. passage le havre for portsmouth. torpedoed and sunk by u 1195, when proceeding to portsmouth to pick up troops. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1945

Water depth above wreck: 27 meter, Height above seabed: 241 cm

Known since: 1945, last detected: 20161114

Details measurements/cartography: H02001/45 28.6.45 WK OF A LARGE, FRENCH LINER WITH TWO FUNNELS SUNK 195DEGS, 4.2M FROM NAB TWR [504000N, 005705W APPROX] IN 108FT. MARKED BY G CONL LT BUOY, GPFL(3)G.10S CLOSE NW AND G CAN LT BUOY, GPFL(2)G.10S CLOSE SE. (TH, 10.4.45). CHART AS DW WITH BUOYS.

- NM 1817/45. H02001/45 9.6.46 EXAM'D AFTER DISPERSAL. LEAST E/S DEPTH 48FT IN 503600N, 005845W. LT BUOYS WITHDRAWN. (CSO, HMS VERNON, 21.1.46).

- NM 895/46. H6667/57 LEAST E/S DEPTH OBTAINED 62 IN GEN DEPTH 100FT, BUT THERE IS PROBABLY LESS WATER OVER THIS WK. (HMS DALRYMPLE, 1958). NCA. H5808/55 10.5.60 NOW CHARTED IN 503603N, 005839W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 2045. H4383/72 26.10.76 EXAM'D IN 503600N, 005844W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER. SWEPT CLEAR 16MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 20.1 IN GEN DEPTH 25MTRS. (KELVIN HUGHES SURVEY, AUG 1976).

- NM 2211/76. H4121/76 17.1.77 EXAM'D 4.8.76 IN 503600N, 005835W [OGB] USING HI-FIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 23.6 IN GEN DEPTH 30MTRS. SCOUR 1.5MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 7.2MTRS. LENGTH 165MTRS. LIES 065/245 DEG. (HMS FOX, HI 52/76). RETAIN SWEPT DEPTH IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. H1310/87/9 6.3.87 DIVED IN 1986. LARGE AREA OF STEEL PLATES, TWISTED GIRDERS AND OTHER WRECKAGE STANDING 6 TO 7MTRS HIGH IN PLACES. (M PRITCHARD, 16.2.87). H3847/86 2.11.88 EXAM'D 13.10.88 IN 503558N, 005835W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 21.4 IN GEN DEPTHS 29 TO 35MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 7MTRS. LIES 045/225 DEGS. APPARENTLY WELL BROKEN UP. (HMSML GLEANER, HI 366).

- NM 3482/88. 12.1.00 WRECKAGE STATED TO STAND 14MTRS PROUD OF MUD & SAND BOTTOM. PILES OF STEEL PLATES AND GIRDERS COVERING A LARGE SITE. 2MTRS SCOUR ON NE SIDE. (DIVER MAGAZINE, JAN 2000) HH091/005/01 27.11.03 EXAM'D 31.7.03 IN 5036.033N, 0058.655W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 22.6, FOUL 22.9MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 23.9 IN GEN DEPTH 29MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 95MTRS, WIDTH 30MTRS. DCS3 HT 4.0MTRS. LIES 100/280 DEGS. DEBRIS EXTENDS 50MTRS TOWARDS 280 DEGS. A LARGE AND WELL BROKEN WK. (NP 1016, HI 1005). AMEND TO SW 22.5MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2016/000165703 3.5.17 EXAM'D 14.11.16 IN 5036.036N, 0058.656W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 22.31MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 27MTRS. LENGTH 144MTRS, WIDTH 38MTRS, HT 4.69MTRS. ORIENTATION 241/061 DEGS. WK WELL BROKEN UP ON CREST OF A RIDGE. (MMT UK, HI 1499). AMEND TO DW 22MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP

Position: 50 36.036 N,0 58.656 W

 

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