This is the information page about the shipwreck Memphian (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 49.731 N,5 35.791 W (52.604766666667, -5.5701166666667)

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: MEMPHIAN (POSSIBLY)

Length 121.9 meter, width: 15.8 meter, draught: 8.2, tonnage 6305 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1908 by harland & wolff ltd, belfast. owned at time bu f leyland & co ltd. five boilers, quadruple expansion engine of 350 nhp, single shaft. passage liverpool for new orleans. torpedoed by u-96. 32 men lost. (sii).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 66 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 1982

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 7 MILES ENE FROM N ARKLOW LTV. (BMVS). INS AS DW IN 525830N, 054130W. (DATE NOT NOTED). NE 1824A. 9.11.77 9.11.77 AMEND TO DWPA. NC 1411. H1935/80 11.10.82 H1935/80 11.10.82 LARGE WELL DEFINED WK EXAM'D 16.7.81 IN 524942N, 053541W [OGB] USING RO/RO HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 55 IN GEN DEPTH 66MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 2MTRS. DCS3 HT 11MTRS, LENGTH APPROX 100MTRS. LYING N/S. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 3). AMEND WK 55MTRS.

- NM 2605/82.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT

Position: 52 49.731 N,5 35.791 W

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