This is the information page about the shipwreck Lake owens, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 35.412 N,5 7.515 W (50.590200, -5.125250)

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: LAKE OWENS

Length 77.1 meter, width: 13.4 meter, draught: 6.1, tonnage 2308 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1918 by great lakes engineering works. owned at time of loss by the us shipping board. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 289hp, single shaft. passage nantes for barry roads. in ballast. torpedoed and sunk by ub 125. ub 125 also sank portguese ss brava at same time in same area.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 51 meter, Height above seabed: 31 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2011

Details measurements/cartography: 9.9.18 9.9.18 POSN 3M NW BY W 0.5W OF TREVOSE HEAD. (BOT). H6391/19 H6391/19 [NO DATE] NOT CHARTED. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). 8.3.20 8.3.20 NOW CHARTED AS WK [OLD SYMBOL] IN 503330N, 050635W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 2565. H2537/28 27.8.28 H2537/28 & H4337/28 27.8.28 NOW CHARTED AS NDW PA (1918). (AUTHORITY NOT STATED) BA 2565. H2409/32 27.5.32 H2409/32 27.5.32 TO BE EXPUNGED. (HMS BEAUFORT). DELETE.

- NM 892/32. H1247/67 17.5.79 H1247/67 17.5.79 WK LOCATED USING MAGNETOMETER IN 503520N, 050731W [OGB] USING DECCA. (R DAVIS, 14.5.79). INS AS WK USC 28MTRS. BR STD. 8.3.99 8.3.99 POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED BY LONDON DIVERS M JEFFORD AND N STAHL IN 1997 AS LAKE OWENS. BELL RECOVERED. POSN 5035.72N, 0507.70W USING DECCA. SHELL CASINGS ON DECK MARKED NY (NEW YORK). (G POUND, TELECON 8.3.99). NCA YET. HH100/351/15 27.10.99 HH100/351/15 27.10.99 LOCATED IN 1984. POSN 5035.20N, 0507.31W [OGB] USING DECCA. CONFIRMED AS LAKE OWENS. (G POUND). AMEND TO NDW IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. HH090/799/01 23.11.01 HH090/799/01 23.11.01 EXAMINED 18.9.01 IN 5035.413N, 0507.513W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 42.7 IN GEN DEPTH 51MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 92MTRS, WIDTH 44MTRS. DCS3 HT 9.0MTRS. LIES 030/210DEGS. INTACT, COLLAPSED. (NP 1008, HI 799). BR STD. 23.11.11 23.11.11 LOCATED 25.3.10 IN 5035.412N, 0507.515W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 44.18 IN GEN DEPTH 50.9MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 84.7MTRS, WIDTH 12.2MTRS, HT 6.72MTRS. LIES 031/211 WITH BOWS SW. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1157). AMEND WK 44MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, COLLAPSING BOWS SW

Position: 50 35.412 N,5 7.515 W

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