This is the information page about the shipwreck Prince of wales (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 57 9.492 N,1 29.746 W (57.4531, -1.7967)

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: PRINCE OF WALES (POSSIBLY)

Length 32.3 meter, width: 6.2 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 129 ton

Cause: 25.3.17 built in 1891 by cook, welton & gemmell, hull. owned at time of loss by j pattison, hartlepool. one boiler, triple expansion engines of 50nhp, single shaft. machinery by c d holmes & co, hull. captured by submarine and sunk by scuttling charges. (naval centre rosyth, telegram dtd 25.3.17, ll ww1 & sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 80 meter, Height above seabed: 120 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2009

Details measurements/cartography: H8161/20 16.11.20 REPORT OF SUNKEN WRECKAGE IN APPROX 571000N, 013200W. (BOARD OF TRADE). INS AS OBSOLETE WK SYMBOL. BR STD. H4087/26 24.6.26 AMEND NDWPA (1917). BR STD. HH091/155/01 1.3.10 SEP 2010/000098684 EXAM'D 15.7.09 IN 5709.492N, 0129.746W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 75.65 IN GEN DEPTH 80.6MTRS. SCOUR 1.1MTR DEEP EXTENDS 2MTRS TOWARDS 120DEGS FROM S END. LENGTH 39MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS, HT 5.9MTRS. LIES 120/300 DEGS WITH BOWS SE. DEGRADED. (GARDLINE HYDRO, HI 1155). INTACT, UPRIGHT. AMEND WK 75MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, INTACT, BOWS SE

Position: 57 9.492 N,1 29.746 W

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