This is the information page about the shipwreck Glenart castle, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 6.335 N,5 2.855 W (50.86325, -4.82365)

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.

Name: GLENART CASTLE

Length 134.1 meter, width: 16.2 meter, draught: 9.1, tonnage 6807 ton

Cause: ex-galician. built in 1900 by harland & wolff, belfast. owned at time of loss by the union castle mail ss co. triple expansion engines of 375nhp, ?twin shaft for 12.5 knots. passage newport for brest to embark wounded. torpedoed and sunk by uc-56. captain burt and 94 of the crew were among the 153 lost from a total complement of 186.

Year of registration: 1977

Water depth above wreck: 66 meter, Height above seabed: 30 cm

Known since: 1977, last detected: 2008

Details measurements/cartography: H2979/74 13.5.77 H2979/74 13.5.77 FF REPORTED IN 510625N, 050255W. POSN BY DECCA. DAMAGE TO NETS. A SECOND FF REPORTED IN 510624N, 050240W. DAMAGE TO NETS. (E GILES, LTR DTD 14.4.77). NCA. HH090/799/01 1.9.99 HH090/799/01 1.9.99 EXAM'D 25.9.99 IN 5106.335N, 0502.855W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 55.0 IN GEN DEPTH 66MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 153.5MTRS, WIDTH 63.7MTRS. DCS3 HT 6.0MTRS. LIES 030/210 DEGS. (NP 1008, HI 799). STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT BUT WELL BROKEN UP. NO DEBRIS FIELD. PROBABLY UPRIGHT. INS AS WK 55MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/17 18.7.01 HH100/351/17 18.7.01 DIVED IN JUNE 01. UPRIGHT, INTACT STERN LIES TO THE N. ALMOST CERTAINLY THE GLENART CASTLE. (N R CHIPCHASE). NCA. 10.7.03 10.7.03 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. CONFIRMED AS GLENARD CASTLE BY RECOVERED CROCKERY. (I MCCARTNEY, TELCON). NCA. 19.1.08 19.1.08 DIVED 11.6.05 IN LISTED POSN. BOW FACING IN WESTERLY DIRECTION, SCOUR DEPTH 3MTRS. MAIN BELL RECOVERED CLOSE TO THE STERN & CLOSE TO THE REAR OF THE AFT ACCOMODATION. STERN SHOWS SOME SINKING DAMAGE. WK LOOKS RELATIVELY INTACT THOUGH MOST OF THE WOODEN DECKING HAS GONE AND MUCH OF THE SUPERSTRUCTURE HAS STARTED TO COLLAPSE. (TP WOODCOCK, LTR DTD 11.1.09). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, WELL BROKEN UP, BOWS SW, STERN INTACT

Position: 51 6.335 N,5 2.855 W

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