This is the information page about the shipwreck Sandsend, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 15 N,21 29 W (58.25, -21.483333333333)

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

Length 106.1 meter, width: 15.2 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 3612 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1925 by w pickersgill & co. owned at time of loss by rowland & marwoods ss co. triple expansion engine of 315nhp for 10 knots. passage port talbot for quebec. torpedoed by u-48. (dods, ll ww2, axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 2900 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1996

Details measurements/cartography: 10.2.96 10.2.96 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS APPROX 300M NWN OF ROCKALL IN 581500N, 212900W. (LL WW2). SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 581200N, 212900W. (AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). PLOTS IN OVER 2500MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 15 N,21 29 W

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