This is the information page about the shipwreck Port denison, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 57 41.36 N,1 33.423 W (57.4531, -1.7967)

 

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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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Name: PORT DENISON

Length 146.3 meter, width: 18.3 meter, draught: 9.8, tonnage 8043 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1918 by workman, clarke & co ltd, belfast. owned at time of loss by port line ltd. four boilers, ?two triple expansion engines and two lp turbines of 984hp. passage london for auckland and lyttleton. torpedoed and sunk by german aircraft whilst in convoy. sixteen crew lost. (sibi, dods).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 93 meter, Height above seabed: 80 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2009

Details measurements/cartography: H1001/40 6.2.40 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 573754N, 013548W. ACTION NOT NOTED. A/S CONTACT, WK IN 574136N, 013306W. (E.G.17 - 1945). H0810/40 13.10.86 LOCATED AND POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED IN 574122N, 013314W [OGB]. POSN BY DECCA. STANDS 20MTRS HIGH AT HIGHEST POINT. (KILBURNS SALVAGE CO TELEX, 18.9.86 & 13.10.86). AMEND TO WK 60MTRS. BR STD. HH091/155/01 19.1.10 SEP 2010/000027978 LOCATED 13.3.09 IN 5741.360N, 0133.423W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 79.05 IN GEN DEPTH 93.0MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 108MTRS, WIDTH 40MTRS, HT 14MTRS. LIES 080/260 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. DEGRADED AND BROKEN IN TWO HALVES. (GARDLINE HYDRO, HI 1155). TWO PARTS LIE AT ALMOST 90 DEGS. SECOND PART LIES 160/340 DEGS. AMEND WK 79MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: IN TWO PARTS AT RT ANGLES, SECOND PART LIES 160/340

Position: 57 41.36 N,1 33.423 W

 

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