This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms oceana, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 59 12.43 N,2 44.68 W (59.308216666667, -2.5270666666667)

 

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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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Name: HMS OCEANA

Length 42.7 meter, width: 6.9 meter, draught: 4, tonnage 337 ton

Cause: 3.8.14 ex-cerebus. built in 1889. one boiler, triple expansion engine, single shaft. hired as an armed boarding vessel from 3.8.14 and renamed 'oceana'. cause of loss not known. (sibi). twin compound expansion engines, twin shaft. (k heath). run down while at anchor by another admiralty tug 'stobo castle'. built by gourlay bros, dundee for william watkins, london. (shipwrecks of the n of scotland, r n baird). stranded 18.10.18 at scapa. (srn).

Year of registration: 1986

Water depth above wreck: 12 meter, Height above seabed: 94 cm

Known since: 1986, last detected: 2006

Details measurements/cartography: H1310/86/4 17.2.86 WK OF WW1 ARMED TUG LOCATED IN 591224N, 024445W. LYING ON STBD SIDE WITH BOW & STERN INTACT, BUT MIDSHIPS BROKEN & SALVAGED. ABOUT 30MTRS LONG & STANDING 6MTRS HIGH IN GEN DEPTH 12MTRS. BOWS WNW. (A JENNIONS, 27.1.86). H1310/86/20 7.8.86 WK, APPARENTLY OF A TUG, LOCATED IN 591229N, 024445W IN 18MTRS OF WATER. (B WINFIELD, 26.7.86). INS AS NDW. BR STD. HH100/351/16 12.10.00 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. KNOWN LOCALLY AS 'CHAR' AND REPORTED AS BEING LOST IN A COLLISION IN 1915. LIES ON STBD SIDE AND WELL BROKEN UP. BOILER INTACT. DEBRIS CLOSE TO WK. NO SCOUR. STANDS 4MTRS HIGH BY DEPTH GAUGE. (T JOHNSON, LTR DTD 10.10.00). AMEND TO WK 8MTRS. BR STD. 10.10.03 THIS IS THE 'OCEANA'. CHAR WAS LOST OFF THE N DOWNS. MEASURED LENGTH 140FT. TWO COMPOUND EXPANSION ENGINES, TWIN SHAFT. CYLINDER SIZES 19 & 36 INCH DIAMETER. (K HEATH, TELECON). 26.2.05 [EUT] POSN: 5912.373N, 0244.849W. NC 2562. SEP 2006/000369679 5.9.05 EXAM'D 9.3.06 IN 5912.427N, 0244.705W [EUT] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 6.5MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 12.43MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 45MTRS, WIDTH 6MTRS, HT 5MTRS. LIES 094/274DEGS. (MMT SURVEY VESSEL PING, HI 1122). AMEND WK 6.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 22.9.06 LEAST M/B DEPTH 7.4 IN GEN DEPTH 12.3MTRS. (MMT SURVEY VESSEL PING, WK RECORDS FOR HI 1122). NCA. 27.11.06 SHOWN AS LEAST DEPTH 6.1MTRS IN 5912.43N, 0244.68W [EUT] ON CARIS PLOT [M4298]. NE 2562.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ON STBD SIDE, WELL BROKEN UP, BOILER INTACT

Position: 59 12.43 N,2 44.68 W

 

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