This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms banyers, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 15.142 N,0 15.481 W (54.2523667, -0.2580167)

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: HMS BANYERS

Length 48.8 meter, width: 8 meter, tonnage 448 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Built 1914 by cook welson & gemmel ltd, beverley. originally owned by the south western steam fishing co. single boiler, triple expansion engine, single shaft. midships engine. hired in 1914. mined.

Year of registration: 1972

Water depth above wreck: 35 meter, Height above seabed: 60 cm

Known since: 1972, last detected: 20160222

Details measurements/cartography: H4942/72 19.2.73 LOCATED WITH SIDE SCAN SONAR BY CS PETER FABER DURING CABLE ROUTE SURVEY. FIXED BY DECCA. OBSTRUCTION 40MTRS LONG, LYING 051/231DEGS. POSSIBLY BYWELL. POSN 541500N, 001521W. (SURVEY K6544/1 & 29). INS AS OBSTN.

- NM 537/73. H1310/84/22 1.8.84 WK, IDENTIFIED AS BANYERS, LOCATED AND DIVED ON. POSN FIXED USING RADAR (SHOWN ON TRACING OF CHART 129). STANDS 4MTRS HIGH IN GEN DEPTH 36MTRS. (P J LASSEY, 19.7.84). INS AS WK PA 24MTRS IN 541512N, 001524W. BR STD. HH009/730/01 19.11.97 LOCATED BY DCS3 BUT NOT SURVEYED AS LIES WITHIN FISHING AREA EXCLUSION ZONE. (GARDLINE, HI 730). NCA. HH100/351/17 25.4.01 LIES IN 5415.140N, 0015.506W [WGD]. UPRIGHT AND INTACT AND ON AN EVEN KEEL. LIES 051/231 DEGS. LARGE TRAWL NET ON THE BOWS. (A C JACKSON/C A RACEY). INS AS WK USC 24MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. SEP 2016/000007250 07.06.16 EXAM'D 22.02.16 IN 5415.142N, 0015.481W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 30.9MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 35.6MTRS. LENGTH 53MTRS, WIDTH 9.7MTRS, HT 4.7MTRS, ORIENTATION 060 DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 50.6MTRS, 1.5MTRS DEEP TOWARDS 143.0. THE WRECK IS MAINLY INTACT, APART FROM THE STERN. WHERE IT APPEARS THAT THE STRUCTURE HAS COLLAPSED, AND CREATED A DEBRIS FIELD. THERE IS SCOUR SURROUNDING THE WRECK, ESPECIALLY ON THE SOUTH-EASTERN AND NORTH-WESTERN EDGES. (EGS, HI 1472). AMEND NDW 30.5MTRS IN REVISD POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Mainly intact, stern has collapsed?

Position: 54 15.142 N,0 15.481 W

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