This is the information page about the shipwreck Diligent, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 48.972 N,4 45.825 W (50.822183333333, -4.5627833333333)

 

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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.

 

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Name: DILIGENT

Length 89.1 meter, width: 11.9 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 2184 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,personnel

Cause: built in 1888 by short bros, sunderland. owned at time of loss by j westoll. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 205 nhp, single shaft. machinery by j dickinson, sunderland. passage santander for troon. sank follwing collision with french ss marquise de lubersac. (sibi).

Year of registration: 2009

Water depth above wreck: 41 meter, Height above seabed: 30 cm

Known since: 2009

Details measurements/cartography: 6.5.09 SEP 2009/000033900 6.5.09 WK LOCATED IN 5048.97N, 0445.82W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST DEPTH 35MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 42MTRS. LENGTH 75MTRS. LIES 045/225 DEGS. (FURGO OSAE, HN FOR HI 1157). INS AS WK USC 35MTRS. BR STD. 23.8.11 23.8.11 DIVED 8.2011. PLATE RECOVERED INSCRIBED: 'JOHN DICKINSON, NO 314, 1888'. CONSIDERED TO BE 'DILIGENT'. (STEVE UNDERHILL, TELECON 23.8.11). NCA. 24.8.11 24.8.11 LOCATED 18.10.09 IN 5048.972N, 0445.825W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 34.82 IN GEN DEPTH 40.9MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 81.4MTRS, WIDTH 19.2MTRS, HT 6.1MTRS. LIES 030/210 DEGS WITH BOWS NE. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1157). AMEND WK 34MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: COLLAPSED

Position: 50 48.972 N,4 45.825 W

 

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