This is the information page about the shipwreck Hurstwood, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 32.289 N,0 31.334 W (54.538150, -0.522233)

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: HURSTWOOD

Length 68.6 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1229 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1906 by s p austin & son, sunderland, with one boiler, triple expansion engine of 179hp, single shaft. machinery by g clark ltd., sunderland. owned at time of loss by cory colliers ltd. passage london for newcastle-upon-tyne. torpedoed and sunk by ub-34. 4 of 15 crew lost. (sibi)

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 51 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 20161213

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 6M NE OF WHITBY. (WW1SL). H3752/26 11.6.26 INS NDW PA (1918) IN 543200N, 003100W ON 1191. H4593/59 9.11.59 AMEND TO NDW PA. NC 1200. 3.4.74 AMEND TO WK USC PA 28MTRS. NC 134. 9.5.85 AMEND TO WK USC PA 40MTRS. NE 134. H5103/83 9.9.86 FASTENER IN 543123N, 003100W. POSN BY DECCA. (KINGFISHER OBSTN BOOKLET: WHITBY AREA). H6331/87 26.1.89 EXAM'D 3.5.88 IN 543217N, 003116W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 47 IN GEN DEPTH 52MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 5.2MTRS, LENGTH 75MTRS. LIES 085/265DEG, WELL BROKEN UP AND WITH 2 HIGH POINTS NEAR W END. (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). BR STD. 30.3.09 IDENTIFIED AS HURSTWOOD FROM VARIOUS ARTEFACTS RECOVERED INCLUDING CORY CROCKERY, MACHINERY DETAILS, DAMAGE & POSN OF LOSS. (CARL RACEY, E-MAIL DTD 27.3.09) IDENTITY AMENDED. NCA. SEP 2017/000002822 5.5.17 EXAM'D 13.12.16 IN 5432.289N, 0031.334W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 46.37MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 51MTRS, LENGTH 74.0MTRS, WIDTH 11.7MTRS, HEIGHT 5.5MTRS, ORIENTATION 090/270 DEGS. WRECK APPEARS TO BE UPRIGHT AND INTACT BUT SEVERELY DISINTEGRATED. BOW SECTION IS DISTINCT BUT WELL BROKEN, STERN SECTION APPEARS TO BE MORE INTACT BUT HAS FALLEN OVER. (MMT, HI 1491). AMEND NDW 46MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP

Position: 54 32.289 N,0 31.334 W

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