This is the information page about the shipwreck Prudentia, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 50.838 N,3 7.955 W (58.847300, -3.132583)

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: PRUDENTIA

Length 95.1 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 2781 ton
Load: flammable liquids and gases,oil

Cause: built in 1889 by palmers' co, ltd, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by j m lennard & sons lennards carrying co ltd. employed as an admiralty oiler. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 269nhp, single shaft. passage scapa for fuelling. sank following collision with ss hermoine (5000 grt). (sibi).

Year of registration: 1926

Water depth above wreck: 23 meter, Height above seabed: 10 cm

Known since: 1926, last detected: 2003

Details measurements/cartography: H3875/26 18.6.26 SHOWN ON CHARTS AS WK 8FMS IN 072DEGS, 7.3C (S 89 E MAG) FROM FARA CHURCH. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H2017/72 19.8.74 LEAST DEPTH OVER WK, 6FMS 4FT, IN 585054N, 030752W. (HUNTING SURVEYS [K6864/17]).

- NM BLOCK 1550/74. H1287/75 15.10.75 WW1 TANKER. STILL HAS STEEL PROP. IT IS ALSO GIVING OFF AN OIL SLICK WHICH LEADS TO EASY LOCATION. (CPO DUNFORD, RAF LINCOLN DTD 15.9.75). 5.3.76 REPORTED LYING ON PORT SIDE ON HEADING 190DEGS WITH LEAST DEPTH 7FMS 1FT [LAT] BY CLOSE E/S. STILL LEAKING LIGHT OIL. (D HOOPER, DIVER REPORT, TELECON). AMEND TO WK 7FMS 2FT IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 28.5.76 LOCATED 2.2.76 BY DCS3. WAS FOUND TO BE LYING ON PORT SIDE. LENGTH APPROX 315FT. DCS3 HT 46FT. HEADING 190DEGS [T] APPROX. LEAST E/S DEPTH 43FT [LAT]. MID POSN OF WK 585051.8N, 030751.6W. (D J HOOPER, ARICS). H2017/72 11.3.77 G SPH BUOY, INT.QFL,G, RAREFL LAID 1C E OF WK. (ORKNEY ISLANDS COUNCIL NM 1/77).

- NM BLOCK 1052/77. 8.12.77 NOW CHARTED AS WK 13.1MTRS, WITH FOUL AREA, RADIUS 1C. NC 35. 8.4.81 NOW MARKED BY E CARD PILLAR BUOY, Q(3)10S 1C E OF WK. NE 2568. 19.12.03 LOCATED IN LISTED POSN. (C HARPER, FATHOMS LTD, LTR DTD 5.12.03). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, ON PORT SIDE

Position: 58 50.838 N,3 7.955 W

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