Wreck: Onslow (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Onslow, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 32.11 N,0 42.151 W (54.535167, -0.702517)
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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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Shipwreck details
Name: ONSLOW
Length 95.1 meter, width: 14 meter, draught: 6.1, tonnage 2722 ton
Load: coal
Cause: built in 1899 by barclay curle, whiteinch. owned at time of loss by leander ss co ltd, london. two boilers, triple expansion engine, single shaft. drove ashore in fog, broke in two four days later. passage sunderland for piraeus.
Year of registration: 1911
Water depth above wreck: 5 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm
Known since: 1911, last detected: 1995
Details measurements/cartography: H1243/70 10.11.70 LOCATED AND IDENTIFIED BY SUB AQUA DIVER, FROM INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY LOCAL FISHERMEN. LIES CLOSE INSHORE IN ABOUT 30FT OF WATER. (P.W. WATSON, 31.10.70) METHOD OF FIXING POSN NOT SUPPLIED. NCA. H6331/87 20.1.89 NOT FOUND. NO INDICATION OF WKGE ON DCS3. (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). HH100/351/09 8.6.95 EXAM'D IN 543206N, 004209W BY GPS, DATUM NOT CONFIRMED. A CARGO VESSEL WITH TWO BOILERS AND STEAM TRIPLE EXPANSION ENGINE. BOWS SMASHED UP AMONG THE ROCKS POINTING TO THE SHORE. (A C JACKSON/C A RACEY). HH100/351/10 24.11.95 GETS DEEPER IF YOU FOLLOW THE PROP SHAFT TO SEAWARD. BOILERS ARE THE HIGHEST PART OF THIS WK. (A C JACKSON & C A RACEY). INS AS FOUL. BR STD. 1.3.06 EUT POSN: 5432.110N, 0042.151W. BA 1612 [6TH EDN, MAY '02].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN IN TWO, BOWS SMASHED ON ROCKY FORESHORE
Position: 54 32.11 N,0 42.151 W
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