This is the information page about the shipwreck Kamma, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 6.615 N,1 27.605 W (54.93705, -1.1630333333333)
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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.
Name: KAMMA
Length 76.5 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1516 ton
Load: timber
Cause: built in 1883 by palmers company ltd, newcastle. owned at time of loss by rederiaktieb henckel np. one boiler, double expansion engine, single iron propeller. 150 ihp. passage gefle to rouen under the command of captain l o norman. struck a mine and foundered. vessel was ex-york minser, ex-xia, ex-black prince. (r young).
Year of registration: 1917
Water depth above wreck: 15 meter, Height above seabed: 12 cm
Known since: 1917, last detected: 2019
Details measurements/cartography: H597/17 ONE MAST VISIBLE AT LW. - FNM 68/17. LATER AMENDED TO DW. (DATE NOT KNOWN). H4653/18 10.8.18 NO LONGER CONSIDERED A DANGER TO NAVIGATION. (SNO TYNE). H4214/26 1.7.26 AMENDED TO NDW. BR STD. H2433/71 NOT LOCATED DURING AREA SONAR SEARCH. (ISS, HI 9/70). NCA. H2433/71 EXAM' D IN 550630N, 012724W [OGB] USING HIFIX/3. LEAST E/S DEPTH 14.1MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 16MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 16.8MTRS. LOCATED AS SMALL CONTACT IN CHARTED POSN. CLOSE SOUNDING REVEALED POSSIBLE WRECK CLOSE NW. (ISS, H525 6/71). AMENDED TO WK 7FMS 4FT.
- NM 695/72. 17.5.73 AMENDED TO WK 14.1MTRS. NC 152. HH090/796/01 8.1.99 EXAM'D 22.9.98 IN 550636.2N, 012738.3W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 11.4, FOUL 11.8MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 11.5 IN GEN DEPTH 14MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 3.2MTRS. LENGTH 58MTRS, WIDTH 30MTRS. LIES 020/200 DEGS. BADLY BROKEN WK COVERING THE STATED AREA. LIES TO THE SW OF A POINT CONTACT WITH AN ELEVATION OF 3.2MTRS. CONSIDERED ALSO TO BE WK [4318]. (GARDLINE, HI 796). AMEND TO SW 11.4MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/15 16.9.99 IN TWO MAIN SECTIONS WITH THE ENGINE AND BOILER IN 5506.65N, 0127.48W AND THE REST OF THE VESSEL SPREAD ABOUT 5506.55N, 0127.40W [?WGD]. SPREAD ABOUT A VERY WIDE AREA. COVERED IN NETS. (R YOUNG, LTR DTD 13.9.99). NCA. SEP 2019/000043627 18.3.19 EXAM’D 18.3.19 IN 5506.615N, 0127.605W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 11.35MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 15MTRS. LENGTH 67.5MTRS, WIDTH 32.8MTRS, HT 3.95MTRS, ORIENTATION 012/192DEGS. SCATTERED DEBRIS IN NUMEROUS PARTS. MAIN SECTION 40MTRS NE, ENGINE LOCTAED 32MTRS SSW AND BOILERS LOCATED 24MTRS W. AMEND DW 11.3MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: SCATTERED DEBRIS IN NUMEROUS PARTS
Position: 55 6.615 N,1 27.605 W