This is the information page about the shipwreck Martha, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 27.247 N,2 38.172 W (50.454117, -2.636200)

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: MARTHA

Length 56.4 meter, width: 8.2 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 653 ton

Cause: built in 1905 by grangemouth dockyard co, greenock. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 113 nhp, single shaft. torpedoed by ub-80. (ww1sl, der krieg zur see & sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 46 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2015

Details measurements/cartography: 12.3.18 SANK IMMEDIATELY IN 503000N, 023600W. (IDSA, DOCKET M12815). H2537/28 23.8.28 WK NOT CHARTED. H3971/52 8.10.52 WIRE DRIFT SWEEP 16.6.52 IN 502715N, 023804W USING HSA. CLEAR 19FMS, FOUL AT 20FMS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 21FMS IN GEN DEPTH 25FMS. LENGTH 250FT, DIRECTION NE/SW. (HMS SCOTT/SCES, 16.6.52, SURVEY [E9419]). CHART AS WK 19FMS. NOTE. H356/61 20.7.61 VERY GOOD ECHO WHICH HAS BEEN MISTAKEN FOR A SUBMARINE ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. ORIENTATION 060/240DEGS FIXED BY DECCA. (CAPT (F) 2ND FRIGATE SQDN PORTLAND). NCA. H3950/70 24.5.71 NOW CHARTED AS SW 34MTRS. NC 3315. H5982/82 26.1.83 WK SHOWN IN 502716N, 023805W [OGB] ON KINGFISHER CHART K(SW)1 [1982]. NCA. H2923/83 21.12.84 EXAM'D 29.7.84 IN 502713N, 023805W [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 38.5, FOUL AT 39MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 39.2 IN GEN DEPTH 46MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 5MTRS, LENGTH 65MTRS. LYING INTACT, NE/SW. (GARDLINE SURVEYS, HI 202). AMENDED TO SW 38MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. H090/961/01 18.12.03 LOCATED, NOT EXAMINED. (GARDLINE, HI 961). NCA. SEP 2015/000019320 8.7.15 EXAM'D 16.3.15 LEAST M/B DEPTH 39.62MTRS IN 5027.247N, 0238.172W [WGD], GEN DEPTHS 46MTRS. LENGTH 68.5MTRS, WIDTH 5.0MTRS, HEIGHT 5.8MTRS. ORIENTATION 045/225 DEGS. INTACT, BOW BROKEN AWAY. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (MMT, HI 1453). AMEND TO NDW 39MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, BOW BROKEN AWAY

Position: 50 27.247 N,2 38.172 W

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