This is the information page about the shipwreck Redesmere, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 28.847 N,1 21.215 W (50.480783, -1.353583)

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: REDESMERE

Length 88.4 meter, width: 13 meter, tonnage 2123 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1911 by sunderland shipbuilding co. owned at time of loss by bromport steam ship co ltd (h r greenhalgh, managers). two boilers, triple expansion engine of 266 nhp, single shaft. machinery by ne marine engineering co. passage barry dock for southampton. torpedoed by ub-40. (d c wendes).

Year of registration: 1955

Water depth above wreck: 35 meter, Height above seabed: 72 cm

Known since: 1955, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: ORIGINALLY THOUGHT TO BE SS BRAAT II (SEE [18978]). 8.3.18 SUNK IN 502800N, 012200W. SANK AT ONCE. (IDSA MASTER, DOCKET M12127). H6391/19 SUNK 7MILES SW BY S OF ST CATHERINES PT. (LL WW1). CHART AS WK [OLD SYMBOL]. H3287/24 12.5.24 AMEND TO DW. BR STD. H4607/28 AMEND TO NDW. BR STD. H6895/55 15.12.55 WK EXAM'D IN 502850N, 012102W USING DECCA. LEAST E/S DEPTH 16FMS IN GEN DEPTH 19FMS. SEABED GRAVEL AND SHELL. (HMS SCOTT 31.10.55 & 1.11.55). AMEND TO WK 16FMS (29MTRS). NE 2045. H1284/74 13.6.75 REPORTED S OF ST CATHERINES PT. 20FT HIGH, UPRIGHT. NO SCOUR. LYING E/W. (R TODD, SPITHEAD MARINE SALVAGE LTD, 20.5.75). NCA. HH090/962/01 5.12.02 EXAM'D 31.7.02 IN 5028.847N, 0121.217W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 29.0 IN GEN DEPTH 34MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 99MTRS, WIDTH 25MTRS. DCS3 HT 5.6MTRS. LIES 075/255 DEGS. POOR MAGNETIC ANOMALY. APPEARS PARTIALLY INTACT AND UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 962). RETAIN AS WK 29MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. HH090/962/01 11.11.03 SWEPT CLEAR 30.1, FOUL 30.4MTRS. (GARDLINE, H 962). AMEND TO SW 30MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/22 25.1.05 DIVED IN 5028.844N, 0121.217W [WGD]. HIGHEST POINT IS THE BOILERS AT 30MTRS. THERE IS ONE PROP SHAFT THAT HAS BEEN PULLED BACK OUT OF THE HULL AND IS SUSPENDED OFF THE SEABED BY A BEARING. POSSIBLY DUE TO THE FORCE OF IMPACT WITH THE SEABED DURING SINKING. (P STREET, EMAIL DTD 23.1.05). NCA. PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT TO BE BRAAT II. 2.2.07 THIS IS SS REDESMERE. STANDS ABOUT 6MTRS HIGH IN 38MTRS ON SEABED OF HARD CHALK WITH A COVERING OF SHINGLE. IDENTITY BY ELIMINATION AND THE NAME WATSON & CO (NAME OF SHIPOWNERS) WAS FOUND ENGRAVED ON A TELESCOPE RECOVERED FROM THE WK. (D C WENDES, SOUTH COAST SHIPWRECKS). SEP 2020/000123102 4.10.21 EXAM’D 9.10.20 IN 5028.847N, 0121.215W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 29.29MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 35MTRS. LENGTH 90MTRS, WIDTH 21MTRS, HT 5.3MTRS. ORIENTATION 072/252 DEGS. UPRIGHT, THE E PART IS BROKEN UP. (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY AB, HI 1586). AMEND DW 29MTRS IN REVISED POSN
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, HIGHEST POINT IS THE BOILERS. THE E PART IS BROKEN UP

Position: 50 28.847 N,1 21.215 W

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