Wreck: Sabbia (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Sabbia, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 3.555 N,2 17.08 W (56.059250, -2.284667)
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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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Shipwreck details
Name: SABBIA
Length 96.1 meter, width: 14.1 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 2802 ton
Load: coal
Cause: built in 1908 by clyde shipbuilding & engineering co ltd, port glasgow. owned at time of loss by the admiralty. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 269nhp, single shaft. passage burntisland for london. struck mine laid by u-74. no lives lost. (sibi).
Year of registration: 2003
Water depth above wreck: 52 meter, Height above seabed: 160 cm
Known since: 2003, last detected: 2007
Details measurements/cartography: MINED 7 MILES SE BY S FROM MAY ISLAND. HH091/051/01 19.1.03 EXAM'D 4.11.03 IN 5603.555N, 0217.080W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 41.1 IN GEN DEPTH 52MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 102MTRS, WIDTH 32MTRS. DCS3 HT 9MTRS. LIES 160/340 DEGS WITH BOWS TOWARDS 160 DEGS. UPRIGHT, INTACT. (NP 1008, HI 1051). ?TWO VESSELS, ON ON TOP OF THE OTHER. INS WK 41MTRS. BR STD. HH242/640/06 29.1.04 INS BY NM.
- NM 1306/04. 4.12.07 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. LIES WITH BOWS N. BOW IS FLATTENED WITH HUGE ANCHOR. ANIDSHIPS WAS TWISTED, THE ONE BOILER SIGHTED WAS TRANVERSE TO THE LINE OF SHIP. HOLDS ARE ON AN EVEN KEEL. STERN IS INTACT AND LIES TO STBD, SPLIT FROM THE MAIN DECK BUT IN LINE WITH THE SHIP. SPARE PROP IN THIS SECTION. CONSIDERED TO BE SABBIA. CINC REQUESTED. (DIVED BY J MCLEOD & M SINCLAIR, VIA I EASINGWOOD). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, BOWS SSW
Position: 56 3.555 N,2 17.08 W
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