This is the information page about the shipwreck Name nicht bekannt, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 8.623 N,4 30.937 W (50.86325, -4.82365)

 

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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.

 

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38. Swainby (probably)
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Name: Name nicht bekannt

Length 99.1 meter, width: 14.6 meter, draught: 7.6, tonnage 3554 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1921 by c hill & sons of bristol. spanish flag, home port bilbao. two boilers, triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage newport for genoa. stove in a bow plate in nw storm. took water and later sank. crew recovered by rnli.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 47 meter, Height above seabed: 88 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: 14.4.18 POSN 510839N, 043048W. H7034/49 17.11.49 WK LOCATED IN 510839N, 043048W USING HSA. LEAST E/S DEPTH 21FMS IN GEN DEPTH 26FMS (POOR TRACE). SWEPT CLEAR BY OROPESA TO 10FMS. (HMS SEAGULL, SIGNAL & LTR DTD 28.11.49). INS AS NDW. BR STD. 6.10.72 AMEND TO SW 10FMS 0FT. NE 1178. 25.1.73 AMEND TO SW 18.3 MTRS. NC 1156. 8.2.84 WK IN 45MTRS IN POSN 5.5M, 102 DEGS LUNDY S LT. (J HAY, TELECON). HH091/158/01 - SEP 2008/000063884 16.7.08 LOCATED 5.8.07 IN 5108.623N, 0430.937W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 42.34 IN GEN DEPTH 47.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 60.9MTRS, WIDTH 24.0MTRS, HT 5.4MTRS. LIES 088/268 DEGS. POOR MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (FURUGO OSAE, HI 1158). INTACT, ?BOWS W. AMEND WK 42MTRS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 3908/09. 11.5.16 DIVED ON SEVERAL TIMES SINCE 2014, VESSEL SMALLER THAN "SS MONTE GURUGU". VESSEL HAS TWIN FOUR BLADED SCREWS AND RUDDER, SITTING UPRIGHT, CONCAVE BOW SHAPE. STERN DECK MOUNTED DEPTH CHARGE LAUNCHER, AND DEPTH CHARGE FUSES SEEN BY DIVERS. LIKELY TO BE HMY RHODORA 11, REQUISITIONED AS ANTI SUBMARINE PATROL VESSEL 1940?? (KEITH DENBY E-MAIL DTD 5.5.16, ILFRACOMBE & N DEVON SUB AQUA CLUB). REMOVE VESSEL NAME MONTE GURUGU.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, ?BOWS E

Position: 51 8.623 N,4 30.937 W

 

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