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 (53.569150, 0.093600)

 

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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. Ac 9
2. Airdrie (possibly)
3. Amelie-mathilde
4. Amenity
5. Arcona champion
6. Arduity
7. Audacity
8. Avalon
9. B o borjesson
10. Beaconsfield
11. Benmacdhui
12. Box hill
13. Breitenburg
14. British councillor
15. Cadmus
16. Canada
17. City of birmingham
18. Coastal fort no 1 (part of)(possibly)
19. Coastal fort no-1
20. Corinth (possibly)
21. Cramlington (possibly)
22. Dana (possibly)
23. Daphne ii
24. Dayrian
25. Deerpool (after section)
26. Deerpool (for'd section)
27. Diana
28. Dido
29. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
30. Dunsany
31. Empress (probably)
32. Ethel (possibly)
33. Exmoor
34. Faunus
35. Femke
36. Fermo
37. Fowberry tower (part)
38. Fowberry tower (part)
39. Francis
40. Fryken
41. Georgie
42. Georgios
43. Gerhardt (possibly)
44. Girl kitty (possibly)
45. Giuseppe
46. Gladeto
47. Gothic
48. Grangemouth
49. Harlech
50. Hms benvolio
51. Hms botanic
52. Hms calverton
53. Hms corfield
54. Hms cortina
55. Hms dervish
56. Hms egret
57. Hms lormont
58. Hms mistletoe
59. Hms othello
60. Hms princess victoria
61. Hms remillo
62. Hms st cyrus
63. Hms strathborve (part)
64. Hms susarion
65. Hms yorkshire belle
66. Ightham (possibly)
67. Ionic (probably)
68. Jane (possibly)
69. Janet helen (possibly)
70. John and thomas
71. John mowlem
72. Kimberley (possibly)
73. Kyma
74. Ladas (possibly)
75. Lady dinah
76. Lincolnshire time and tide bell
77. Lord haig (possibly)
78. Lord haig (possibly)
79. Lord selborne
80. Lottie (possibly)
81. Lucerne
82. Lutha
83. Lyra (bow section)
84. Magdalyn ann
85. Maggie
86. Magnolia (probably)
87. Mangalore (part of)(possibly)
88. Marian francis
89. Marshall (probably)
90. Modig
91. Modiva (possibly)
92. Monimia (possibly)
93. Nadod (possibly)
94. Nautilus
95. Nimrod
96. Odessa
97. Ophir ii (possibly)
98. Orsa
99. Otis tetrax
100. Paraciers
101. Peggotty
102. Portia
103. Ravonia (part)
104. Ravonia (part) (possibly)
105. Rayford
106. Reculver
107. Retriever
108. Revello
109. Revi
110. Rhuys
111. Rievaulx abbey
112. Rivaulx
113. River don (part of)(probably)
114. River witham
115. Rosebud (possibly)
116. Sagacity
117. Salacon
118. Salmondby
119. Saltoun
120. Sandra glen
121. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
122. Sota eduardo
123. Stylianos chandris
124. Teano
125. Thessaly
126. Thomas deas
127. Triton
128. Upminster (possibly)
129. Venture (possibly)
130. Whitemantle (possibly)
131. William hanson
132. Windsor (part of)
133. Windsor (part of)
134. Winga
135. Xavier
136. Xavier
137. 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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