This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms boniface, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 9.801 N,8 25.085 W (55.383583333333, -8.5494166666667)

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 BONIFACE

Length 108.2 meter, width: 14.9 meter, draught: 7.3, tonnage 3799 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built 1904 by barclay, curle & co. ltd, glasgow. owned at time of loss by booth steamship co ltd, liverpool. requistioned for government use. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 400hp, single shaft. passage new york for glasgow. torpedoed without warning by u 53. one life lost. (sii)

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 52 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2012

Details measurements/cartography: 15.9.19 7M NE BY N FROM ARAN ISLAND, SW OF BLOODY FORELAND. (WW1SL) H6391/19 25.3.20 WK IN 530815N, 092915W APPROX. (DIR NAVAL EQUIPT JULY 1919). INS AS WK (OLD SYMBOL) PA (1917).

- NM 674/20. H6907/29 14.11.29 NOW CHARTED AS DWPA. H1208/64 1.4.64 NDW IN 550940N, 082503W. (RISDON BEAZLEY LTD). AMEND NDW IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 644/64. 31.10.72 AMEND WK USC 11FMS (20MTRS). (TONNAGE KNOWN). NE 2723. H4551/76 18.10.76 BONIFACE REPD IN 550940N, 082503W. (RISDON BEAZLEY, LTR DTD 15.10.76). NFA. 24.8.77 AMEND WK USC 28MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2012/000089306 22.5.12 LIES IN 5509.801N, 0825.0854W [WGD]. LEAST DEPTH 42.6MTRS. (C MCKEON, GSI, EMAIL DTD 3.2.12). AMEND WK 42MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 55 9.801 N,8 25.085 W

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