This is the information page about the shipwreck Oswin (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 20.378 N,1 21.671 W (56.0797, -1.5490833333333)

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: OSWIN (PROBABLY)

Length 78.9 meter, width: 11.3 meter, draught: 5.1, tonnage 1737 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1890 by t turnbull, whitby, with two boilers, triple expansion engine of 172hp, single shaft. machinery by blair & co, stockton. owned at time of loss by walhall, helsingborg. passage methil for malmo. captured and sunk by ub-62. (sibi)

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 59 meter, Height above seabed: 40 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2010

Details measurements/cartography: SEP 2007/000064822 12.9.07 WK LOCATED IN 5620.379N, 0121.668W [WGD]. GEN DEPTH 62.2MTRS. LENGTH 80MTRS, WIDTH 19MTRS, APPROX HT 7.5MTRS. LIES 040/220DEGS. (GARDLINE, HN DTD 9.8.07 FOR HI 1151). INS AS WK USC 53MTRS. BR STD. - PNM 4571/07 ISSUED. HH091/151/01 15.4.08 SEP 2008/000036575 EXAM'D 19.8.07 IN 5620.378N, 0121.671W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 51.7 IN GEN DEPTH 59.8MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 84MTRS, WIDTH 21MTRS, HT 8.1MTRS. LIES 040/220 DEGS WITH BOWS NE. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. LARGE DEGRADED WK WITH NE END COLLAPSED. (GARDLINE HYDRO, HI 1151). AMEND WK 51MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. SEP 2007000064780 8.5.08 PNM 2787/08 ISSUED. 8.5.09 DIVED RECENTLY, NO ARTIFACTS RECOVERED BUT DIVERS DESCRIPTION WOULD INDICATE THAT VESSEL IS PROBABLY OSWIN. FULL DIVE REPORT TO FOLLOW. (I EASINGWOOD, E-MAIL DTD 7.5.09) NCA. SEP 2009000049721 13.7.09 RE-ISSUED AS PNM 3955/09. SEP 2009000096591 6.8.09 RE-ISSUED AS PNM 4532/09. SEP 2009000128360 28.9.09 RE-ISSUED AS PNM 5502/09. SEP 2010000027978 16.3.10 RE-ISSUED AS PNM 1557/10.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: DEGRADED, COLLAPSED AT NE END, BOWS NE

Position: 56 20.378 N,1 21.671 W

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