This is the information page about the shipwreck Samtampa, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 30.078 N,3 44.972 W (51.21105, -3.4662333333333)

 

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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.

 

1. Cabenda
2. Carare
3. Cato (possibly)
4. Delfin
5. Fort medine
6. G a savage (possibly)
7. Gleneuse
8. Hms princess
9. Inverdargle (bow section) (probably)
10. Inverdargle (stern section) (probably)
11. James mcgee
12. Kendy
13. Lamb?
14. Madjoe
15. Malleny (or malleney)
16. Malleny (or malleney)
17. Morning star (possibly).
18. Plantes welvard (possibly)
19. Portugalete (probably).
20. Riptide
21. Riverton (stern portion) (possibly)
22. Samtampa
23. Scarweather ltv
24. Sirdar
25. Slava
26. Stalheim
27. Stanholme
28. Steepholm
29. Steepholm
30. Strombus (part of)
31. Strombus (part of)
32. Strombus (part of)
33. Strombus (part of)(probably)
34. The american

 

Name: SAMTAMPA

Length 128.9 meter, width: 17.4 meter, draught: 10.7, tonnage 7219 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: vessel, ex-paleg wadsworth, built in 1943 by new england shipbuilding co., portland, usa, with 3 cylinder triple expansion engine & 2 boilers. owned at time of loss by houlder brothers & co. ltd. on passage from middlesborough for newport. anchored in swansea bay in fog, dragged anchors in gale and grounded on sker pt. crew of 39 were rescued by mumbles lifeboat which then capsized with total lost of 47 lives. (sibi & dods). photos of stranded vessel in sibi & shipwrecks of the bristol channel.

Year of registration: 1947

Water depth above wreck: -4 meter

Known since: 1947, last detected: 1993

Details measurements/cartography: H2498/50 12.12.50 AGROUND AT SKER POINT, NEAR PORT TALBOT. TOTAL LOSS. (DODS). INS AS ST IN 513007N, 034446W. NC 1161. H4748/74 21.1.75 NOT LOCATED USING SONAR. (HMS WOODLARK, HI 32/74). DELETED. BR STD. HH090/522/01 29.11.93 LOCATED AUG 1993 IN 513003N, 034454W [OGB]. THE ENGINE BLOCK STANDS 2MTRS HIGH IN GEN DEPTH 1.6MTRS ALONGSIDE A ROCKY LEDGE. SMALL WIDELY DISTRIBUTED PIECES OF WRECKAGE LIE NEARBY. A SMALL MEMORIAL TO THIS TRADEGY IN WHICH ALL CREW WERE LOST AND TO THE CREW OF THE MUMBLES LIFEBOAT, WHICH ALSO SANK, WAS ERECTED ON THE BEACH NEARBY IN 1992. PHOTOS SUPPLIED. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 522). INS AS ST. BR STD. [PHOTOS HELD IN PRESS ARTICLES BRANCH FOLDER]. 29.9.05 29.9.05 EUT POSN: 5130.078N, 0344.972W. NE 1169.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 30.078 N,3 44.972 W

 

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