This is the information page about the shipwreck Duchess of cornwall, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 44.734 N,1 43.43 W (49.686983333333, -1.6523333333333)

 

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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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4. Boulgaria
5. Breakaway of yare
6. British influence
7. Bronte (ex-war coney)
8. Cab
9. Cabo villano
10. Calvados
11. Campeador
12. Carpathia
13. Chaloupe 112
14. Chantereyne
15. Chanzi
16. Corsaire
17. Discovery
18. Duchess of cornwall
19. Eika
20. Eleni stathatou
21. Etoile des ondes
22. Fleuret
23. G-bagh
24. Gairsoppa
25. Gaspard de la nuit
26. General du temple
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28. Hms edgehill
29. Hms rhyl
30. Hms truant
31. Imprenable
32. James b richardson
33. Karen folmer
34. Komet
35. L'aventurier
36. La fidele
37. Le merle
38. Lenda
39. Leopoldville
40. Louie bell
41. Marie anne de bretagne
42. May girl
43. Mera 1
44. Mimosa
45. Morning admiral
46. Motorola
47. Mount myrto
48. Normandy
49. Nyarlathotep
50. Pangani
51. Pembroke
52. Pendragon b
53. Pizarro
54. Promethee
55. Psi
56. Roger mado (possibly)
57. Roger mado (possibly)
58. Rombo
59. Saint brandan
60. Saint hubert
61. Saint-pierre des marins
62. Sainte marine
63. Slemish
64. Spolanda
65. Stade (after part)
66. Stade (possibly)
67. Stanley force
68. Strathalbyn
69. Tayo
70. Tipasa
71. Tracy's michelle
72. Tracys dawn
73. U 672 (possibly)
74. Ussa

 

Name: DUCHESS OF CORNWALL

Length 79.4 meter, width: 11.2 meter, draught: 5.6, tonnage 1706 ton

Cause: built in 1889 by w grewy & co. owned at time of loss by dutchess of cornwall ss co. triple expansion engine of 156nhp for 8.5 knots. torpedoed. 23 men lost. (dods). sunk by uc 26. (french wk records 1999).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 55 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2017

Details measurements/cartography: H3937/62 23.11.62 WK, LEAST DEPTH 46MTRS, IN 494445N, 014325W. (PARIS NM 62 35 16).

- NM 2213/62. 18.5.73 [EUR] POSN: 494446.5N, 014320W. NC 1106. 12.3.84 UNKNOWN WK LOCATED BY V/S & E/S IN 494448N, 014323W [EUR]. LIES IN GEN DEPTH OF 54MTRS. (FR WK RECORDS 1976 NO.14591015). 22.9.88 DECCA CO-ORDS GIVEN. (REP DES CR ET EP). HH100/351/01 21.11.89 WK IN 494445N, 014325W IDENTIFIED AS BRITISH SS 'DUCHESS OF CORNWALL'. BELL RECOVERED IN 1987. (P ENAULT, 20.10.89) 21.6.90 UNKNOWN IN 494447.2N, 014322.4W [EUR]. POSN ACCURACY 20MTRS. LEAST DEPTH 46 IN GEN DEPTH 54MTRS. (FR WK RECORDS 1987 NO.14591015). NCA. 4.2.93 WK, LEAST DEPTH 48MTRS. (FR WK RECORDS 1992 NO.14591015). BR STD. 15.4.99 POSN 4944.794N, 0143.350W [EUR]. LENGTH 80MTRS, WIDTH 25MTRS. LIES 000/180DEGS. LARGE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. LARGE HOLE IN MIDDLE OF WK. (FR WK RECORDS 1999). BR STD. SEP 2015/000182665 30.9.15 SHOWN AS WK 48MTRS IN 4944.734N, 0143.430W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7092. [ED 4, COR TO 11.8.15]. NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT

Position: 49 44.734 N,1 43.43 W

 

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