This is the information page about the shipwreck Hampshire, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 21.918 N,5 31.045 W (50.27365, -5.4894666666667)

 

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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. Acadian
2. Aida lauro
3. Alacrity
4. Alden gifford (possibly)
5. Alster (possibly)
6. Antwerpen
7. Arbel (probably)
8. Arnside (possibly)
9. Asia
10. Aud
11. Austria (possibly)
12. Bard (possibly)
13. Besse (probably)
14. Bessemer city (probably)
15. Bill (part of)(possibly)
16. Bill (possibly)
17. Bolette (possibly)
18. Busby
19. Cheerful
20. Chimu
21. Christos markettos
22. Conqueror
23. Courtown
24. Cristina
25. Dageid
26. Denebola
27. Depois
28. Devon
29. Dundee (probably)
30. Dux (possibly)
31. Enrico parodi
32. Fanny lambert
33. Gemini
34. Genevieve (possibly)
35. Glamorgan coast
36. Glendale
37. Gleno
38. Hampshire
39. Helene (probably)
40. Hellopes
41. Hms anson
42. Hms royalo
43. Hms warspite
44. Hms warspite (part of)
45. Hms warwick
46. Hmy viva 2
47. Hopeful (possibly)
48. Juanita
49. Kate thomas (possibly)
50. Kildonan ?
51. Kintuck
52. Kynance (probably)
53. Lia'g
54. Liberty
55. Loe bar wk
56. Luna
57. Lutece (part of)(possibly)
58. Luxembourg (probably)
59. Lyminge
60. Madeline
61. Nile
62. Norma (possibly)
63. Onega
64. Pacific reliance
65. Peer gynt (possibly)
66. Petersham
67. Phoenix 202
68. Polesley (possibly)
69. Ponthieu
70. Prestige
71. Primo ?
72. Primrose (remains of)(possibly)
73. Princess royal
74. Quarnero
75. Rms mulheim
76. Rossmore (possibly)
77. Saxon briton
78. Secil japan (bow section)
79. Secil japan (stern section)
80. Shanes castle
81. Shoreham (probably)
82. Sna i (possibly)
83. St anthony (possibly)
84. St chamond
85. St george
86. St george (possibly)
87. Stabil (possibly)
88. Sten (possibly)
89. Thorsa (part of)(possibly)
90. Traute sarnow
91. Tyrhaug
92. U 400 (possibly)
93. Umbre
94. Union crystal (possibly)
95. Veghtstroom (possibly)
96. Vesuvius
97. Vine branch (possibly)
98. War baron (probably)
99. William cory
100. Yewcroft
101. Zone (probably)

 

Name: HAMPSHIRE

Length 96.4 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 7.7, tonnage 2597 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1880 by w doxford & sons of sunderland. registered in london. passage liverpool for cardiff. 2 boilers, compound engine, single screw. 300 ihp. crew of 22. on passage to load coal at cardiff, then to genoa and china and japan. spare length of propeller shaft became loose in terrible weather and broached the bottom plating below the water line. only the chief officer, j swanson, would leave the ship in a boat with 4 other men. the boat capsized and only swanson survived.

Year of registration: 1985

Water depth above wreck: 48 meter, Height above seabed: 175 cm

Known since: 1985, last detected: 2000

Details measurements/cartography: HH100/351/15 7.11.99 LOCATED IN 1985 IN 5021.90N, 0530.96W [?WGD]. NO CARGO. HUB CAP FROM A WINCH FOUND WHICH WAS ENGRAVED WITH THE NAME: HAMPSHIRE. (G POUND). INS AS NDW. BR STD. HH090/799/01 19.12.00 EXAM'D 31.7.00 IN 5021.918N, 0531.045W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 41.3 IN GEN DEPTH 48MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 86MTRS, WIDTH 16MTRS. DCS3 HT 8.1MTRS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. NO DEBRIS. BROKEN UP AND PARTIALLY BURIED. (NP 1008, HI 799). AMEND TO WK 41MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN UP & PARTIALLY BURIED, ROCK RIDGES NEARBY

Position: 50 21.918 N,5 31.045 W

 

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