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 29.643 N,1 19.033 W (50.494050, -1.317217)

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: CUBA

Length 57.8 meter, width: 8.3 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 730 ton
Load: minerals

Cause: ex-portugal. built in 1883 by acties gs weser, bremen. owned at time of loss by akties seil & damp. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 83hp, single shaft. passage bristol for kastrup. cargo saltpetre. sank following collision with norwegian ss kronpris olau.

Year of registration: 1999

Water depth above wreck: 37 meter, Height above seabed: 77 cm

Known since: 1999, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: HH100/351/14 26.3.99 LOCATED IN 5029.617N, 0119.00W [OGB] USING DECCA. WK OF STEAMER. LIES NW/SE WITH BOWS NW. HIGHEST POINTS ARE THE BOILER AND ENGINE AT 4MTRS. SEABED SHINGLE. (M PRITCHARD, 9.3.99). CHARTED DEPTH 35MTRS. INS AS WK 30MTRS.

- NM 1592/99. HH100/351/18 3.9.02 DIVED 6.02 AND IDENTIFIED AS 'CUBA' BY THE BELL. COMPOUND ENGINE, SINGLE AND DONKEY BOILERS LIE IN LINE AND FORM THE HIGHEST PART OF THE WK, WHICH STANDS SOME 5MTRS PROUD OF THE SEABED BY DIVE COMPUTER. THE IRON HULL STANDS NO MORE THAN 1-2MTRS HIGH. HARD SEABED OF CHALK AND SHINGLE. (D C WENDES, EMAIL DTD 20.8.02). NCA. HH090/962/01 4.12.02 EXAM'D 24.7.02 IN 5029.644N, 0119.033W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 32.4, FOUL 32.7MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 32.4 IN GEN DEPTH 37MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 74MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS. DCS3 HT 5.9MTRS. LIES 075/255 DEGS. POOR MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT, COLLAPSED. (GARDLINE, HI 962). AMEND TO SW 32MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2020/000123102 13.10.21 EXAM’D 3.10.20 IN 5029.643N, 0119.033W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 32.67TRS IN GEN DEPTH 38MTRS. LENGTH 62MTRS, WIDTH 19MTRS, HT 5MTRS. ORIENTATION 077/257 DEGS. (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY AB, HI 1586). AMEND NDW 32MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BOWS NW, COLLAPSED, HIGHEST POINT IS BOILER AND ENGINE

Position: 50 29.643 N,1 19.033 W

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