Wreck: Sandhurst (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Sandhurst, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 58.723 N,5 23.086 W (54.978717, -5.384767)
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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: SANDHURST
Length 99.1 meter, width: 14.3 meter, draught: 6.7, tonnage 3034 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore
Cause: built in 1897 by blyth shipbuilding. owned at time of loss by watts, watts & co, london. triple expansion engine of 280 nhp for 9.5kts, single shaft. passage bilbao for ardrossan. torpedoed and sunk by german submarine ub-62. twenty men lost. (dods & wrecksite.eu)
Year of registration: 1918
Water depth above wreck: 134 meter, Height above seabed: 43 cm
Known since: 1918, last detected: 2017
Details measurements/cartography: M09985 13.5.18 SUNK IN 550000N, 052200W OR 5M W OF CORSEWALL POINT. (A P REPORT, C IN C LARNE). M24641 18.5.18 NOW REPORTED IN 545845N, 052530W (PA). (BOARD OF TRADE, MASTER). [NO DATE] SUNK 6M NW BY W 1/4 W FROM CORSEWALL POINT. (WW1SL). 18.8.53 INS NDW (PA) ON NC F6629 ONLY. 23.7.69 INS AS NDWPA. NC 2724. H3671/72 20.7.72 EXAM'D 4.7.72 IN 545842N, 052302W [OGB] USING HFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 125 IN GEN DEPTH 134MTRS. SCOUR 1 TO 2MTRS. SEABED BROWN MUD, SAND AND SHELLS. APPEARS TO BE ABOUT 300FT LONG. LYING 040/220. APPEARS WELL BROKEN UP WITH 3 HIGH POINTS. (HMS FOX, HI 51/72). BR STD. H3671/72 13.9.72 WK LEAST DEPTH 68FMS [125MTRS]. (HMS FOX HN 12/72). NE'S 2199 & 2198. SEP 2017/000034083 27.6.17 EXAM'D 20.01.17; IN 5458.723N, 0523.086W [WGD]. LEAST WCD DEPTH 119.95MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 134MTRS, LENGTH 100.9MTRS, WIDTH 26.2MTRS, HEIGHT 14.03MTRS, ORIENTATION 043/223 DEGS. (MMT, HI 1508). AMEND NDW 119MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP
Position: 54 58.723 N,5 23.086 W
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