This is the information page about the shipwreck Manipur (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 41.256 N,5 11.81 W (58.3996, -5.1846)

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: MANIPUR (PROBABLY)

Length 144.2 meter, width: 19.5 meter, draught: 11.3, tonnage 8652 ton
Load: timber,non-ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,metal: concentrate and products,ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1920 by lithgows. owned at time of loss by t & j brocklebank. turbine engines of 1147 hp for 13.5kts. passage baltimore & halifax for london in convoy hx 55a. torpedoed & sunk by u-57. 14 of 79 crew lost. (ll ww2 & dods)

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 66 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2005

Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 10.1.40 POSN 584100N, 051400W. ALSO GIVEN AS 6M NW OF CAPE WRATH. NCA. 13.11.57 INS AS NDWPD IN 584100N, 051400W. NC 1954. H5826/59 17.11.59 AMEND TO NDWPA. NC 2720. H1270/71 23.12.71 SALVAGE CONTRACT TAKEN BY RISDON BEAZLEY ULRICK HARMS. SOME RECOVERIES MADE. (DTI, LTR DTD NOV '71). 2.7.74 AMEND TO USCPA 40MTRS. NC 2635. H4551/76 7.12.76 CARGO VESSEL, LYING IN 2 PARTS LOCATED IN 584123N, 051142W. POSN BY DECCA. (RISDON BEAZLEY, 27.10.76). LOCATED 1956-57. H2884/83 10.5.84 LISTED POSN INVESTIGATED 23.9.83. NOTHING FOUND EXCEPT 1 POINT CONTACT, POSSIBLY DEBRIS STANDING 1MTR HIGH IN 584102N, 051404W [OGB]. LARGE, WELL BROKEN WK LOCATED IN 584117N, 051143W [OGB] USING HYPERFIX [3 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 60 IN GEN DEPTH 68MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 8MTRS, LENGTH 200MTRS, WIDTH 40MTRS. LYING ENE/WSW. (RACAL SURVEY, HI 160). BR STD. H4551/76 4.7.86 SALVAGE OPS IN POSN 301DEG, 7.2M FROM CAPE WRATH. MARKED BY BUOYS. (KILBURNS SALVAGE COMPANY LTD, TELEX 19.6.86). HH091/071/01 29.11.05 EXAM'D 15.8.05 IN 5841.256N, 0511.810W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 57.9 IN GEN DEPTH 66.8MTRS. SCOUR 0.5MTRS DEEP AT BOW AND STERN. LENGTH 157MTRS, WIDTH 40MTRS, HT 8.9MTRS. LIES 090/270 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOAMALY. GENERALLY INTACT AND UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 1071). BOWS W, BROKEN FWD AND AFT. AMEND WK 57MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, BOWS W, BROKEN FWD AND AFT, SCOUR AT BOW & STERN

Position: 58 41.256 N,5 11.81 W

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