This is the information page about the shipwreck Madryn, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 44.298 N,5 3.473 W (50.505016666667, -5.2049666666667)

 

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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.

 

1. Alcyon (possibly)
2. Angele (possibly)
3. Anna sophie
4. Antoinette (probably)
5. Arthurtown
6. Bogstad
7. Brava
8. Brisk (probably)
9. Camelot challenger (possibly)
10. Carasa (possibly)
11. Carl
12. Castor 1
13. Deputie gaston dumesnil (possibly)
14. Diligent
15. Dumfries
16. Elna e
17. Empire otter
18. Ezra weston (bow section)
19. Ezra weston (stern section)
20. Germaine
21. Gregynog
22. Hemsley 1
23. Hmcs regina
24. Hmhs rewa
25. Hugin
26. Humbergate (probably)
27. Hunsgrove
28. Island maid
29. John taylor
30. Kai (possibly)
31. Lake edon
32. Lake owens
33. Lisa maria
34. Lombard (possibly)
35. Madryn
36. Marguerite pry
37. Maria asumpta
38. Mefjord (possibly)
39. Milly (possibly)
40. N verberckmoes (possibly)
41. Norma (possibly)
42. Onega
43. Pearn pride (possibly)
44. Portugal
45. Risoy (probably)
46. Runswick
47. Saphir
48. Sarah anderson (possibly)
49. Shad thames
50. Shanes castle
51. Shoreham (probably)
52. Siracusa
53. Skopelos sky (after part)
54. Sphene (probably)
55. St joseph
56. St stanislas
57. Svint
58. Tagona
59. Teneriffa (possibly)
60. Towneley
61. U 1021 (possibly)
62. U 325 (possibly)
63. Ub 65
64. Warnow (possibly)

 

Name: MADRYN

Length 89 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 2244 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1916 by osbourne, graham & co, sunderland. owned at time of loss by the mervyn ss navigation co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 248hp, single shaft. machinery by g clarke ltd, sunderland. passage penarth for devonport. cargo coal. a non-commissioned admiralty collier. torpedoed in no 1 hold by u 82. sank in 10 minutes. all crew saved.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 56 meter, Height above seabed: 65 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2001

Details measurements/cartography: 23.9.18 23.9.18 REPD TO HAVE SUNK: TREVOSE HEAD BEARING SW BY W 0.5W ABOUT 5MINS. (1.D.S.A. MSTR). 29.12.44 29.12.44 GOOD SONAR CONTACT IN 504418N, 050330W. LENGTH 175FT, HEIGHT 21FT, LYING 111/291DEGS. (EG9) H113/45 25.3.45 H113/45 25.3.45 WK IN 504415N, 050330W. (PLYMOUTH LIST 840/5). H7613/52 5.12.52 H7613/52 5.12.52 NOW BELIEVED TO BE NDWPA IN 504415N, 050330W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NC 1156. 2.5.77 2.5.77 FISHERMANS FASTENER BELIEVED WK REPD IN 504418.8N, 050328.2W USING DECCA. (E GILES, 14.4.77). H1247/69 4.5.78 H1247/69 4.5.78 AMENDED TO WK 45MTRS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). R/P. H2979/74 15.2.79 H2979/74 15.2.79 TWO FFS REPD IN 504411N, 050315W AND 504411N, 050344W USING DECCA. (E GILES, 16.5.77). NCA. HH100/351/12 10.3.97 HH100/351/12 10.3.97 WK IDENTIFIED AS THE `MADRYN'; BELL FOUND IN 504416.4N, 050323W [WGD]. POSN BY GPS. WK LIES UPSIDE DOWN IN 55MTRS. (G J POUND). AMEND POSN. BR STD. HH090/799/01 26.11.01 HH090/799/01 26.11.01 EXAM'D 10.9.01 IN 5044.298N, 0503.473W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 49.8 IN GEN DEPTH 56MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 104MTRS, WIDTH 38MTRS. DCS3 HT 7.7MTRS. LIES 065/245 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. WELL BROKEN WK. (NP 1008, HI 799). AMEND TO WK 49MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INVERTED, WELL BROKEN

Position: 50 44.298 N,5 3.473 W

 

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