This is the information page about the shipwreck Memphis, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 27.63 N,9 49.43 W (51.4605, -9.8238333333333)

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: MEMPHIS

Length 105.5 meter, width: 12.5 meter, draught: 8.2, tonnage 3191 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,animals (land & sea) and birds

Cause: wrecked at mizen head, dunlough bay, while on passage montreal to avonmouth. owned at time of loss by african ss co., built by harland & wolff in 1890. 9 lives lost (shipwrecks of the irish coast, e. bourke)

Year of registration: 1896

Water depth above wreck: 24 meter

Known since: 1896, last detected: 1990

Details measurements/cartography: H100/351/02 2.3.90 FOUND IN 512736N, 094924W, APPROX. VERY BROKEN AND SCATTERED IN DEPTH OF 24MTRS. MAY HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO SALVAGE OPS AS ONLY BOILER AND ANCHOR IDENTIFIABLE. (E BOURKE, 23.2.90). NCA YET. POSN, TAKEN FROM ROUGH SKETCH, FOR FILING ONLY.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ONLY BOILER AND ANCHORS REMAIN

Position: 51 27.63 N,9 49.43 W

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