This is the information page about the shipwreck Dunsany, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 33.077 N,0 12.551 E (53.56915, 0.0936)

 

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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. Airdrie (possibly)
2. Amelie-mathilde
3. Amenity
4. Arduity
5. Avalon
6. B o borjesson
7. Benmacdhui
8. Breitenburg
9. British councillor
10. Cadmus
11. Canada
12. Carson
13. City of birmingham
14. Cook s26
15. Corinth (possibly)
16. Cramlington (possibly)
17. Dana (possibly)
18. Daphne ii
19. Dayrian
20. Deerpool (after section)
21. Diana
22. Dido
23. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
24. Dunsany
25. Empress (probably)
26. Ethel (possibly)
27. Exmoor
28. Faunus
29. Femke
30. Fermo
31. Fowberry tower (part)
32. Francis
33. Fryken
34. Georgie
35. Georgios
36. Gerhardt (possibly)
37. Girl kitty (possibly)
38. Giuseppe
39. Gladeto
40. Gothic
41. Grangemouth
42. Harlech
43. Hms benvolio
44. Hms botanic
45. Hms calverton
46. Hms corfield
47. Hms egret
48. Hms mistletoe
49. Hms othello
50. Hms princess victoria
51. Hms remillo
52. Hms silicia
53. Hms strathborve (part)
54. Hms susarion
55. Hms yorkshire belle
56. Hvitveis
57. Ightham (possibly)
58. Ionic (probably)
59. Jane (possibly)
60. Janet helen (possibly)
61. John and thomas
62. John mowlem
63. Kimberley (possibly)
64. Kyma
65. Ladas (possibly)
66. Lincolnshire time and tide bell
67. Lord haig (possibly)
68. Lord haig (possibly)
69. Lottie (possibly)
70. Lucerne
71. Lutha
72. Lyra (bow section)
73. Magdalyn ann
74. Maggie
75. Marian francis
76. Marie l
77. Meeuw
78. Modig
79. Modiva (possibly)
80. Monimia (possibly)
81. Nar
82. Nimrod
83. Odessa
84. Ophir ii (possibly)
85. Orsa
86. Otis tetrax
87. Paraciers
88. Portia
89. Ravonia (part)
90. Ravonia (part) (possibly)
91. Rayford
92. Reculver
93. Retriever
94. Revello
95. Revi
96. Rhuys
97. Rievaulx abbey
98. Rivaulx
99. River don (part of)(probably)
100. River witham
101. Rosebud (possibly)
102. Sagacity
103. Salacon
104. Salmondby
105. Saltoun
106. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
107. Sergei
108. Sota eduardo
109. Stylianos chandris
110. Thessaly
111. Thomas deas
112. Triton
113. Upminster (possibly)
114. Uralar segundo (cargo debris)
115. Venture (possibly)
116. Violet (probably)
117. Whitemantle (possibly)
118. William hanson
119. Windsor (part of)
120. Winga
121. Xavier
122. Zeemermin

 

Name: DUNSANY

Length 64.6 meter, width: 8.6 meter, draught: 5.3, tonnage 832 ton
Load: coal

Cause: Built in 1876 in newcastle-upon-tyne. two boilers, compound expansion engine of 98hp, single shaft. passage newcastle-upon-tyne for london. cargo coal. foundered under tow after cargo shifted in ne force 6 & heavy seas.

Year of registration: 1968

Water depth above wreck: 12 meter, Height above seabed: 262 cm

Known since: 1968, last detected: 20210818

Details measurements/cartography: H6450/68 6.12.68 WK LOCATED 5.6.68 IN 533306N, 001235E [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 29FT, FOUL 31FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 30 IN GEN DEPTH 42-45FT. SCOUR 46FT. GOOD SONAR CONTACT. POSSIBLY THE 'DUSANY' RECORDED BY THE HUMBER CONSERVANCY BOARD IN APPROX THIS POSN. (HMS ENTERPRISE, HI 39/68). INS AS SW 5FMS.

- NM 232/69. H6450/68 5.6.69 DIVING OPERATIONS TAKING PLACE FOR FURTHER EXAMINATION. (HUMBER NM 38/69). NCA. H6450/68 17.7.69 G CAN LT BUOY, GPFL(2)G10S, RA REFL LAID 1C N OF CHARTED POSN. CLEARING OPERATIONS TO BE CARRIED OUT. (HUMBER NM 47/69). NCA. H6450/68 15.10.69 DISPERSED TO 36FT. TEMP BUOY REMOVED. (BTDB NM 74/69). AMEND TO WK 6FMS.

- NM 1670/69. H3096/70 12.5.70 REMOVED PIECEMEAL TO SEA BED LEVEL. (CONSERVATOR'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1969). DELETED. BR STD.H3096/70 22.12.70 INS AS FSW 6FMS. BR STD. H2395/73 9.1.74 EXAM'D IN 533303N, 001240E [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 11.6MTRS IN 10-13MTRS. SCOUR 13.6MTRS. ON STEEP SLOPE. APPEARS TO BE SMALL PIECES OF WRECKAGE UP TO 1MTR HIGH. SMALL SCOUR ON N SIDE. (HMS ECHO, K6826/2). AMEND TO FSW 11.0MTRS. BR STD. 18.11.77 AMEND TO FOUL 11.6MTRS IN 533303N, 001240E. NE 109. 14.5.79 SHOWN AS WK 11.6MTRS ON BTDB CHART [CORRECT TO 1.3.79, K 5557]. BR STD. 4.5.93 SHOWN IN 533307N, 001235E ON ASSOCIATED BRITISH PORTS CHART HUMBER 8/12 [1991 EDN]. AMEND POSN. BR STD. HH091/178/01 4.3.08 EXAM'D 6.8.07 IN 5333.079N, 0012.566E [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 10.83 IN GEN DEPTH 12.3MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 54.2MTRS, WIDTH 8.2MTRS, HT 1.5MTRS. LIES 090/270 DEGS WITH BOWS W. LARGELY BURIED, ENGINE/BOILER CLEARLY VISIBLE MIDSHIPS. SCOUR HOLE CLOSE TO PORT SIDE OF WK. (HMSML GLEANER, HI 1178). AMEND WK 10.8MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 29.1.13 EXAM'D 20.10.12 IN 5333.0784N, 0012.5618E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 11.07 IN GEN DEPTH 12.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 60MTRS, WIDTH 13MTRS, HT 1.5MTRS. LIES 085/265 DEGS WITH BOWS W. (HMSML GLEANER, HI 1400). LEAST M/B DEPTH 11.49MTRS. (POST SDC BATHY REPROCESSING). AMEND WK 11.4MTRS. SEP 2018/000132777 25.5.18 EXAM'D BETWEEN 20.5.17 AND 03.5.18 IN 5333.079N, 0012.557E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 11.1. NFS. (ABP HUMBER, H102_0026). AMEND WK 11.1MTRS. SEP 2021/000262656 18.10.21 EXAM'D IN BDC 18.8.21; IN 5333.0768N, 0012.5508E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 11.26MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 12MTRS. LENGTH 50.2MTRS, WIDTH 8.5MTRS, HT1.0MTR,ORIENTATION 82/262,(ABP HUMBER, H525.2 LITE). NFS. RETAIN WK 11.1MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BOWS W, INTACT, ALMOST BURIED, MACH'Y/SHAFT EVIDENT

Position: 53 33.077 N,0 12.551 E

 

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