This is the information page about the shipwreck Hebburn (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 48.703 N,7 24.383 W (51.867, -7.5675)

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: HEBBURN (POSSIBLY)

Length 82.9 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1938 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1908 by wood, skinner & co, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by burnett steamship co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 200 nhp, single shaft. passage from barry. torpedoed by ub-91. 6 men lost. (dods, llww1, ww1sl & sii).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 70 meter

Known since: 1918, last detected: 1978

Details measurements/cartography: 7.10.18 M46052 7.10.18 SUNK 64 MILES WNW OF SMALLS. (BOT). SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 14M S OF MINE HEAD. (WW1SL). 1.3.45 AUBD 1123/71 1.3.45 PA IN 514800N, 072300W. GOOD SONAR CONTACT. 10.2.70 10.2.70 INS AS NDWPA IN 514800N, 072300W. BR STD. 5.12.77 5.12.77 AMEND WK USCPA 55MTRS. NC 2049. H2979/74 22.2.78 H2979/74 22.2.78 FF REPD IN 514841N, 072420W [OSI]. POSN BY DECCA. STATED TO BE BIG WRECK. (E GILES, LTR DTD 5.3.77). AMEND POSN. NC 2049.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 48.703 N,7 24.383 W

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