Wreck: Hampshire (Steam ship)
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 (50.365300, -5.517417)
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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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Shipwreck details
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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