This is the information page about the shipwreck Girdleness, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 45.74 N,4 41.162 W (50.822183333333, -4.5627833333333)

 

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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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18. Girdleness
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38. Sphene (probably)
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Name: GIRDLENESS

Length 100.6 meter, width: 14 meter, draught: 6.7, tonnage 3018 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-grelisle, ex-rockabill, ex-blacktor. built in 1905 by ropner & son, stockton-on-tees. owned at time of loss by the engish ss co ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 280 nhp, single shaft. passage from swansea. torpedoed by u-60. two men lost. (ww1sl, der krieg zur see & sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 32 meter, Height above seabed: 80 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2011

Details measurements/cartography: H2843/18 21.5.18 H2843/18 21.5.18 SANK 1.5M NW OF CAMBEAK POINT. (BOT, MASTER, SNO PENZANCE). CHART IN 504600N, 044330W.

- NM 714/18. H3044/18 30.5.18 H3044/18 30.5.18 WK FOULED BY SS MILLY IN POSN 18M NE BY HALF E FROM TREVOSE HEAD. NCA. H3630/18 25.6.18 H3630/18 25.6.18 POSN EXAM'D BY TRINITY HOUSE ON 18.6.18. NO TRACE FOUND. DEPTH OF WATER BEING 18FMS [LWST], WK BUOY NOT LAID. 29.11.78 29.11.78 LOCATED IN 504539N, 044112W [OGB] USING DECCA. STANDS ABOUT 25FT HIGH. WK HAS BEEN PURCHASED. (R. DAVIS). CHART AS WK 22MTRS IN REVISED POSN. 13.12.89 HA141/02/01/01 13.12.89 DIVED ON 6.8.89 IN 504542N, 044107W [ESTAB'D USING HSA]. HAS BEEN BROKEN DURING SALVAGE WORK. HIGHEST POINT IS TOP OF ENGINE WHICH STANDS ABOUT 5MTRS ABOVE THE SEABED GIVING A LEAST DEPTH OF ABOUT 27MTRS. (ADU REPORT 049, 24.11.89). NCA. HH100/351/12 13.3.97 HH100/351/12 13.3.97 BELL RECOVERED. NO NAME. (G. J. POUND). NCA. HH100/351/19 24.12.02 HH100/351/19 24.12.02 BOILERS IN 5045.696N, 0441.178W [WGD] USING DGPS, STERN IN 5045.672N, 0441.141W [WGD]. (J ROSEVEARE/G FURSE TELECON 17.12.02) AMEND TO MEAN POSN: 5045.684N, 0441.160W. BR STD. 10.8.11 10.8.11 LOCATED 5.12.10 IN 5045.740N, 0441.162W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 27.17 IN GEN DEPTH 32.2MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 21MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS, HT 5.1MTRS. LIES 080/260 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1157). BOILERS, ENGINE, SHAFT AND DEBRIS REMAIN. AMEND WK 27MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BOILERS, ENGINE, SHAFT & DEBRIS

Position: 50 45.74 N,4 41.162 W

 

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