This is the information page about the shipwreck Dumfries, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 44.558 N,4 59.479 W (50.505016666667, -5.2049666666667)

 

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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. Alcyon (possibly)
2. Angele (possibly)
3. Anna sophie
4. Antoinette (probably)
5. Arthurtown
6. Balvenie (possibly)
7. Bogstad
8. Brava
9. Brisk (probably)
10. Camelot challenger (possibly)
11. Carasa (possibly)
12. Carl
13. Castor 1
14. Deputie gaston dumesnil (possibly)
15. Diligent
16. Dumfries
17. Elna e
18. Empire otter
19. Ezra weston (bow section)
20. Ezra weston (stern section)
21. Florence reynolds
22. Germaine
23. Girdleness
24. Gregynog
25. Hemsley 1
26. Hmcs regina
27. Hmhs rewa
28. Hugin
29. Humbergate (probably)
30. Hunsgrove
31. Island maid
32. John taylor
33. Kai (possibly)
34. Lake edon
35. Lake owens
36. Lci(l)99
37. Lisa maria
38. Madryn
39. Marguerite pry
40. Maria asumpta
41. Mefjord (possibly)
42. Milly (possibly)
43. N verberckmoes (possibly)
44. Norma (possibly)
45. Pearn pride (possibly)
46. Portugal
47. Risoy (probably)
48. Runswick
49. Saphir
50. Sarah anderson (possibly)
51. Shad thames
52. Shoreham (probably)
53. Siracusa
54. Skopelos sky (after part)
55. Sphene (probably)
56. St joseph
57. St stanislas
58. Svint
59. Swainby (probably)
60. Tagona
61. Teneriffa (possibly)
62. Towneley
63. U 1021 (possibly)
64. U 325 (possibly)
65. Ub 65
66. Warnow (possibly)

 

Name: DUMFRIES

Length 106.7 meter, width: 15.6 meter, draught: 7.3, tonnage 4121 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-carthusian. built in 1905 by w dunford & sons ltd, sunderland. passage cardiff for leghorn. crew recovered by hms kudos.

Year of registration: 1915

Water depth above wreck: 54 meter, Height above seabed: 120 cm

Known since: 1915, last detected: 2001

Details measurements/cartography: 10.1.69 10.1.69 FF, ALMOST CERTAIN TO BE A WK, IN 504435N, 045925W [OGB] USING DECCA. (R DAVIS). NCA. H2979/74 15.2.79 H2979/74 15.2.79 FF REPD IN 504438N, 045928W [OGB] USING DECCA. (E GILES, 16.5.77). NCA. HH100/351/14 11.3.97 HH100/351/14 11.3.97 WK LOCATED IN 504435N, 045926W [OGB]. IDENTIFIED AS THE WK OF THE `CARTHUSIAN' BY RECOVERY OF BELL [OGB]. THIS VESSEL WAS RENAMED `DUMFRIES'. SHE LIES UPSIDE DOWN IN GEN DEPTH 53MTRS. (G J POUND, 5.3.97). NCA. H220/440/03 12.3.97 H220/440/03 12.3.97 INS AS USC 40MTRS.

- NM 1534/97. HH090/799/01 27.11.01 HH090/799/01 27.11.01 EXAM'D 6.9.01 IN 5044.558N, 0459.479W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 47.3 IN GEN DEPTH 54MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 106MTRS, WIDTH 34MTRS. DCS3 HT 6.0MTRS. LIES 120/300 DEGS STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. BROKEN IN HALF, COLLAPSING. (NP 1008, HI 799). BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN IN HALF, COLLAPSING

Position: 50 44.558 N,4 59.479 W

 

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