This is the information page about the shipwreck Cumbrae, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 28.698 N,3 4.84 W (53.665666666667, -3.093)
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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.
Name: CUMBRAE
Length 70.2 meter, width: 9.7 meter, draught: 4.7, tonnage 916 ton
Load: personnel,general and mixed goods
Cause: built in 1882 by dobie & co, glasgow. owned at time of loss by the clyde shipping co. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 190nhp, single shaft. passage glasgow for liverpool. sank after collision with ss germanic. later dispersed. (sibi).
Year of registration: 1895
Water depth above wreck: 8 meter, Height above seabed: 145 cm
Known since: 1895, last detected: 2006
Details measurements/cartography: 27.12.1895 DISPERSED BY BLASTING BETWEEN 27.12.1895 AND 17.4.1896. DEPTH 26FT BELOW LBD. 720YDS NORTH OF C8 RED BUOY. (LIVERPOOL WK RECORDS). SHOWN ON 1951 AS WK 4FMS 2FT IN 532843N, 030447W [OGB]. 28.2.74 28.2.74 NOT SHOWN ON K3500 NO 9. NC 1951. H2437/76 9.12.81 H2437/76 9.12.81 SHOWN INCORRECTLY ON 1951 IN 532846N, 030444W. (MD & DC LTR DTD 25.11.81). BR STD. HH091/124/01 21.1.06 HH091/124/01 EXAM'D 21.1.06 IN 5328.698N, 0304.8402W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 6.23 IN GEN DEPTH 8.3MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 8MTRS, WIDTH 3MTRS, HT 2.1MTRS. LIES 145/325 DEGS. NO DISTINGUISHABLE FEATURES. (HMSML GLEANER, HI 1124). ?FRAGMENT/BOILER OR MOORINGS OF 'BURBO' BUOY. AMEND WK 6.2MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. SEP 2020/000222576 17.11.21 EXAM’D BY BDC 6.9.2021. NOT LOCATED IN M/B DATASET (2021). NFS. (MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR COMPANY SURVEY, 2021). NFA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: ?FRAGMENT, NO DISTINGUISHABLE FEATURES
Position: 53 28.698 N,3 4.84 W