This is the information page about the shipwreck Gascony, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 39.478 N,0 39.586 W (50.652366666667, -0.61618333333333)

 

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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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Name: GASCONY

Length 109.7 meter, width: 14.6 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 3133 ton
Load: solid fuel,armament,foodstuffs: solid

Cause: built in 1908 by r craggs, middlesbrough. owned at time of loss by d maciver & sons ltd, liverpool. triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage southampton for calais. cargo, hay, guns & charcoal. torpedoed & sunk by uc-37.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 26 meter, Height above seabed: 65 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20180210

Details measurements/cartography: H827/18 7.1.18 SUNK IN 503930N, 003930W. (PORTSMOUTH). CHART AS WK [OLD SYMBOL]. NOTE. 11.1.18 SUNK 4M NE OF OWERS LTV. ALSO REPD 10M SSE FROM OWERS & NO DANGER TO SURFACE NAVIGATION. LATER REPD AS OWERS LT S 38DEGS W 25C. (IDSA MASTER, DOCKET M1781). H1656/24 5.3.24 AMENDED TO DW. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H3947/33 29.11.33 LOCATED IN 503927N, 003942W BY OROPESA SWEEP SET AT 12FMS. DRIFT SWEEP LEAST DEPTH 45FT. (HMS FLINDERS, 23.11.33). AMEND TO WK 7.5FMS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 1915/33. 23.7.71 NOW CHARTED AS SW 13.7MTRS. NC 1652. 7.4.72 NOW CHARTED AS SW 13.1MTRS [LAT]. NC 1652. H1270/72 29.8.72 WRECK OF 'GASCONY' IN 503927N, 003924W [OGB]. INVERTED, LYING NE/SW, BOWS SW. INTACT BUT FOR LARGE HOLE AMIDSHIPS. MAX HEIGHT 30FT AT STERN IN ABOUT 16FMS [FROM CHART]. (MR DILLINGHAM, 13.6.72). AMEND TO WK 11FMS [20.1MTRS] IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 1901/72. H2318/74 16.9.75 LOCATED 9.7.75, EXAM'D 18.7.75 IN 503927N, 003931W [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 17.8MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 25.0MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 25.2MTRS. POSN GIVEN ABOVE IS THE NORTH EASTERN END OF WK, WHERE ONE LEAST DEPTH WAS FOUND. HOWEVER THE SAME LEAST DEPTH WAS ALSO OBTAINED SLIGHTLY AFT OF AMIDSHIPS. ORIENTATION ABOUT 040/220DEGS. (SCES, HI 62/75). AMEND TO WK 17.8MTRS [9FMS 4FT] IN REVISED POSN.

- NM BLOCK 980/76. H1289/76/351 21.10.76 CONTRARY TO EXISTING REPORTS ONLY THE STERN OF THE GASCONY IS UPSIDE DOWN, THE BOW LIES ON ITS SIDE FACING NORTH. (R D SOUTHERN, 18.10.76). HH091/002/01 22.10.02 EXAM'D 26.7.02 IN 5039.476N, 0039.585W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 17.5, FOUL 17.8MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 17.4 IN GEN DEPTH 26MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 40MTRS, WIDTH 30MTRS. DCS3 HT 4.0MTRS. LIES 060/240 DEGS. MODERATE MAGENTIC ANOMALY. (NP 1016, HI 1002). FAIRLY INTACT. LENGTH FROM DCS3 IS 100MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2018/000198963 13.08.18 EXAM'D 10.02.18; IN 5039.478N, 0039.586W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 17.7MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 26MTRS, LENGTH 113MTRS, WIDTH 39MTRS, HEIGHT 7.5MTRS, ORIENTATION 065/245 DEGS. SEVERELY DECAYED. APPEARS TO HAVE COLLAPSED OVER TO THE PORT SIDE, AS BOTH MASTS LIE TOWARDS THE NW &THE SE SIDE SHOWS THE REMAINING HULL PLATE OVERLYING THE DEBRIS. THREE MAIN BOILERS &A SMALLER AUXILLIARY BOILER ARE MIDSHIPS. IT APPEARS THAT THE STERN IS ORIENTATED TOWARDS 065 DEGS, AS THE REMAINS OF THE PRESUMED PROPELLER SHAFT ARE VISIBLE EXTENDING BEYOND THE LINE OF THE HULL. (MMT, HI 1498). AMEND DW 17.7MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: SEVERELY DECAYED, COLLAPSED OVER TO PORT SIDE, BOW WSW.

Position: 50 39.478 N,0 39.586 W

 

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