This is the information page about the shipwreck Sandsend (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 56.892 N,7 29.538 W (51.867, -7.5675)

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: SANDSEND (PROBABLY)

Length 105.6 meter, width: 15.1 meter, draught: 7.8, tonnage 3814 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,coal

Cause: built by w grey & co, west hartlepool. owned at time of loss by pyman ss co ltd, west hartlepool. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 321 nhp, single shaft. machinery by central marine engine works, west hartelpool. passage barry for queenstown. toepedoed by uc-48. three men lost. (sii).

Year of registration: 1955

Water depth above wreck: 49 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1996, last detected: 2007

Details measurements/cartography: TORPEDOED 6 MILES SE BY E OF MINE HEAD. 3 LIVES LOST. (WW1SL). H6907/29 H6907/29 NCA. POSN VAGUE. H03603/55 11.11.55 H03603/55 11.11.55 INS ON NC 8964. 10.2.71 10.2.71 AMEND TO NDWPA. LC 1824. 5.12.77 5.12.77 AMEND TO USCPA 30TRS. NC 2049. HH284/450/02 8.2.96 HH284/450/02 8.2.96 WK LOCATED IN 515653.7N, 072931.3W ?WGD]. COULD BE SANDSEND. (M O RIORDAN). AWAIT FURTHER. NCA. HH282/450/02 28.2.96 HH282/450/02 28.2.96 LOCATED IN 515653.7N, 072931.3W [WGD]. LIES E/W IN DEPTH OF 27 FATHOMS. WELL BROKEN UP AND BOILERS RISE 12 FEET FROM THE BOTTOM. THE SEA BED HAS BUILT UP ABOUT 5 FEET ON THE S SIDE OF THE WK. WK SEEMED TO BE SPLIT AMIDSHIPS WITH THE BOW A DISTANCE AWAY. LOT OF NET ON THE N SIDE BECAUSE PLATING HAS COME AWAY, EXPOSING THE RIBS. (M O RIORDAN, LTR DTD 14.2.96). INS AS USC 43MTRS.

- NM 1168/96. 20.10.09 SEP 2009/000148415 20.10.09 LOCATED IN 5156.892N, 0729.538W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 47.2 IN GEN DEPTH 49MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 98MTRS, WIDTH APPROX 70MTRS, HT 1.8MTRS. LIES 090/270 DEGS. (SEABED DATA CENTRE EXAMINATION OF GSI SURVEY CV07_02 DTD SEP-OCT 2007). AMEND WK 47MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP, BOILERS HIGHEST PT, ?BOWS E

Position: 51 56.892 N,7 29.538 W

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