This is the information page about the shipwreck Downshire (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 8.684 N,4 56.979 W (53.94795, -4.7442)

 

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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. Abydos
2. Amber rose
3. Ariel (possibly)
4. Audentia
5. Aurora
6. Barrister (possibly)
7. Blue star
8. Calista (probably)
9. Carmelite (possibly)
10. Citrine
11. Clan macmaster
12. Conargo
13. Conovium (probably)
14. Crois bhride
15. Darro
16. Don boscoe
17. Downshire (possibly)
18. Downshire (probably)
19. Eileen
20. Ellen sheant
21. Fenella ann
22. Florence
23. Florrieston (probably)
24. Fulmar
25. Ginger
26. Jane brown
27. Largo (possibly)
28. Lily
29. Maja
30. Marianne toft (possibly)
31. Mayfield
32. Mfv polaris
33. Moonlight
34. Moonlight (possibly)
35. Noel du marin
36. Oona hall
37. Our lassie
38. Our queen
39. Ringwall
40. Romeo
41. Silver quest 2
42. Speedwell
43. Thornfield
44. Thracian
45. Tumi joy 2
46. Tuskar
47. Waltham (probably)

 

Name: DOWNSHIRE (POSSIBLY)

Length 47.8 meter, width: 7.3 meter, draught: 2.8, tonnage 337 ton
Load: cement

Cause: built in 1898 by ailsa shipbuilding co, troon. owned at time of loss by east downshire ss co ltd, co down. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 65nhp, single shaft. passage dundrum for manchester. captured by u-30 and sunk by bombs. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1915

Water depth above wreck: 75 meter, Height above seabed: 110 cm

Known since: 1915, last detected: 2004

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 10 MILES NW HALF W OF THE CALF OF MAN. (NAVAL STAFF MONOGRAPHS). SANK 8M NW 0.5W OF CALF OF MAN. (LLOYDS). 16.5.73 16.5.73 INS AS USCPA 50MTRS. NC 2094. H2112/75 3.2.75 H2112/75 3.2.75 WK LOCATED IN 540836N, 0045700W [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 70.5 IN GEN DEPTH 76MTRS. SEABED OF FINE SAND AND CLAY. DCS3 HT 7.4MTRS. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 51/74). FROM THE DCS3 TRACE WK COULD STAND HIGHER. AMEND TO WK 68MTRS.

- NM 395/75. H5982/82 29.7.83 H5982/82 29.7.83 WK SHOWN IN 540843N, 045720W ON KINGFISHER TRAWLING PLOTS C-PLOT C14, [1983]. HH091/061/01 12.2.04 HH091/061/01 12.2.04 EXAM'D 21.9.02 IN 5408.684N, 0456.979W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 71 IN GEN DEPTH 75MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 40MTRS, WIDTH 7MTRS. DCS3 HT 4MTRS. LIE 110/290 DEGS WITH BOWS TOWARDS 290 DEGS. POOR MAGNETIC ANOMALY. APPEARS TO BE BREAKING UP. (HMS ROEBUCK, HI 1016). BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ?BREAKING UP, BOWS WNW

Position: 54 8.684 N,4 56.979 W

 

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