Wreck: Oronsa (Liner)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Oronsa, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 53.101 N,5 5.215 W (52.73695, -5.3741666666667)
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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: ORONSA
Length 141.7 meter, width: 17.1 meter, draught: 11, tonnage 8075 ton
Load: fertiliser: natural and products,general and mixed goods,granular or powdery material
Cause: built in 1906 by harland & wolff, belfast. owned at time of loss by the pacific steam navigation co. six boilers, two 8-cylinder quadruple expansion engines, twin screw. passage talcahuano for liverpool. torpedoed and sunk by u 91 whist in convoy on a bright, moonlit night.
Year of registration: 1918
Water depth above wreck: 90 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm
Known since: 1918, last detected: 1990
Details measurements/cartography: 2.5.18 SUNK 12M OFF BARDSEY I. (M 22218). 6.5.18 POSN 525300N, 050500W. (M09548). INS ON CHARTS. AMEND TO NDW ON 1411 ONLY. (DATE NOT KNOWN). H3705/50 10.6.50 SALVAGE OPS IN PROGRESS. (R BEAZLEY). - TNM 1121/50 H3705/50 28.9.51 SALVAGE OPS COMPLETED. (R B).
- NM 1826/51. 9.5.55 AMEND TO NDWPA. BR STD. 27.12.72 AMEND TO USCPA 60MTRS. NC 1971. H4551/76 10.1.77 ORONSA LOCATED IN 525300N, 050500W, APPROX. (RISDON BEAZLEY, 30.11.76). BUOY LAID CLOSE S OF WK IN 1951 WAS REPD BY TH IN POSN 525148N, 050512W. H1935/80 17.5.82 EXAM'D 30.5.81 IN 525305N, 050509W [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 75 IN GEN DEPTH 90MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 18.5MTRS. LARGE, UPRIGHT, WK, LYING N/S. (HMS FAWN, HI 3/81). AMEND TO WK 71MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/03 22.5.91 RECENTLY DIVED ON. POSN CONFIRMED. (V P HAIGH, 30.10.90).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT & INTACT
Position: 52 53.101 N,5 5.215 W
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