This is the information page about the shipwreck Kenmare, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 28.28 N,5 11.215 W (53.625166666667, -5.4926666666667)

 

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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: Kenmare

Length 80.5 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1330 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1895 by wigham richardson & co, newcastle-u-tyne. owned at time of loss by city of cork steam packet co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 437 nhp, single shaft. passage liverpool for cork. torpedoed by u-104. 29 men lost. (dods, ww1sl & sibi).archival analysis: u104's ktb states the ship was struck in the stern by a single torpedo and sank in four minutes. the survivors stated the shipimmediately and quickly sank by the stern (tna adm 137/1515).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 75 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20190710

Details measurements/cartography: 2.3.18 REPORTED LOST ABOUT 22M NW OF SKERRIES LT & SANK IMMEDIATELY. 3.3.18 REPORTED APPROX 25M NW (MAG) FROM SKERRIES. ACCEPTED POSN 533700N, 051300W. NCA. H4827/75 24.1.77 WK LOCATED 9.11.76 IN 532816N, 0051109W [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 64.4 IN GEN DEPTH 75MTRS. DCS3 HT 11MTRS. LENGTH 90MTRS; LYING SW/NE. HULL APPEARS TO BE COMPLETE. (HMS FOX, HI 54/76).

- NM 551/77. 14.2.23 WRECK SURVEYED 10/7/2019: MBES DATA SHOWS CARGO VESSEL UPRIGHT AND POINTING SW, LENGTH 79MTRS, WIDTH 10.3MTRS. THESE DIMENSIONS ARE CONSISTENT WITH VESSEL "KENMARE". THIS WK TOO SMALL TO BE HOLYHEAD. (INNES MCCARTNEY BOOK "ECHOES FROM THE DEEP"). UPDATE "KENMARE" AND ATTRIBUTES.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Intact, Upright

Position: 53 28.28 N,5 11.215 W

 

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