This is the information page about the shipwreck Grane, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 29.367 N,2 42.726 W (50.39495, -2.4067166666667)

 

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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. 20
2. Addarwa
3. Ailsa craig (probably)
4. Aleyna
5. Algarve
6. Amy
7. Apache
8. Athen
9. Avalanche
10. Baygitano
11. Berar
12. Black hawk (aft section)
13. Bokn (possibly)
14. Borgund i (possibly)
15. Britannia (possibly)
16. Broomhill (probably)
17. Chateau yqem
18. Countess of erne
19. Earl of abergavenny
20. Enecuri
21. Forester (& pontoon)
22. Franziska
23. Frogner ?
24. Gibel-hamam
25. Gorizia
26. Grane
27. Greta c
28. Gripfast
29. Hartlepool (part of)
30. Hartlepool (part of)
31. Heroine (probably)
32. Himalaya
33. Hms amazon
34. Hms bittern
35. Hms bittern (parts of)(probably)
36. Hms boadicea
37. Hms buccaneer
38. Hms empress of india (ex renown)
39. Hms fisgard ii
40. Hms hickory
41. Hms james fennel
42. Hms kingston cairngorm (possibly)
43. Hms landrail (probably)
44. Hms recoil (bow section)(probably)
45. Hms recoil (stern section)(probably)
46. Hms remindo (possibly)
47. Hmsm l24
48. Hmsm m2
49. Hmsm p555
50. Hmsm sidon
51. Inisinver
52. Kongshaug (probably)
53. L h carl
54. Longsand
55. Lst 507 (bow section)
56. Lst 507 (stern section)
57. Lst 531
58. Lucinda (possibly)
59. Majorca
60. Marguerite (possibly)
61. Marie therese
62. Martha
63. Memnon
64. Merchant royal
65. Minerva (probably)
66. Moidart
67. Netley abbey (possibly)
68. Nyasaland
69. Ocean vagabond
70. Onward (probably)
71. Osprey (bow section) (possibly)
72. Pas (c.182)
73. Pomella
74. Pomeranian
75. Reggestroom (probably)
76. Romsdalen (probably)
77. Rosten (possibly)
78. Rotorua
79. Royal adelaide
80. Salsette ii
81. Scaldis
82. Siren
83. Sparkling foam (possibly)
84. St dunstan
85. Stancrest
86. Sudon (possibly)
87. Tandil (probably)
88. Thera (possibly)
89. Tracy
90. Trito
91. U 322 (possibly)
92. Ub 74
93. Ull (probably)
94. Ursa (probably)
95. Valdes (probably)

 

Name: GRANE

Length 70.4 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1122 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1899 by bergens mek verks. owned at time of loss by schjelderup & schott. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 97 nhp, single shaft. passage swansea for rouen. torpedoed by ub-80. (ll ww1, dods, der krieg zur see & sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 43 meter, Height above seabed: 150 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2015

Details measurements/cartography: 10.3.18 SUNK IN 502700N, 023400W. (IDSA MASTER). 13.3.18 SUNK 5M WSW OF PORTLAND BILL. SANK IMMEDIATELY. (DOCKET M12894). H3971/52 3.7.52 WK DRIFT SWEPT 11.6.52. CLEAR AT 18FTHMS, FOUL AT 19FMS. LEAST DEPTH BY E/S 113FT, LENGTH 250FT. LIES IN A N/S DIRECTION. THE SHALLOWEST PART IS AT THE NORTHERN END IN 502920N, USING HSA. STRONG ALL-ROUND A/S RESPONSE. (HMS SCOTT/SCES,11.6.52, SURVEY [E9419]). CHART AS WK 18FMS IN 502916N, 024244W. BR STD. H3950/70 21.5.71 NOW CHARTED AS SW 32MTRS [LAT -0.4MTRS]. NC3315. H5982/82 26.1.83 WK SHOWN IN 502918N, 024243W [OGB] USING DECCA. (KINGFISHER CHART K(SW)1, 1982). NCA. H2923/83 21.12.84 EXAM'D 23.7.84 IN 502921N, 024240W [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 33.4, FOUL AT 34MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 35.0 IN GEN DEPTH 43MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 8 - 9MTRS. LIES 150/330DEGS. (GARDLINE SURVEYS, HI 202). AMEND TO SW 33MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 14.10.86 POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS THE 'GRANE', BELL RECOVERED. (M SKELSEY). SEP 2015/000019320 8.7.15 EXAM'D 19.3.15 LEAST M/B DEPTH 36.53MTRS IN 5029.367N, 0242.726W [WGD], GEN DEPTHS 43MTRS. LENGTH 72.8MTRS, WIDTH 20.3MTRS, HEIGHT 5.6MTRS. ORIENTATION 150/330 DEGS. INTACT, BOWS N/W. (MMT, HI 1453). AMEND TO NDW 36MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, BOWS N/W

Position: 50 29.367 N,2 42.726 W

 

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