This is the information page about the shipwreck Sandvik (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 54.033 N,1 53.764 W (57.160566666667, -2.0339)

 

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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. Assyrian
2. Athenia
3. Branksea (possibly)
4. Cairnie
5. Confield
6. Creemuir
7. Cushendall (part of)(possibly)
8. Empire brigade
9. Empire miniver
10. Empire volunteer
11. Empress (part of)(possibly)
12. Fanad head
13. Geraldine mary
14. Glen tanar
15. Gogovale
16. Gowrie (possibly)
17. Greenawn (possibly)
18. Hedrun
19. Hedson
20. Hms braconburn (possibly)
21. Hms broadwater
22. Hms gelsina
23. Hms nordhav ii (part of)(possibly)
24. Hms nordhav ii (possibly)
25. Hms repro (probably)
26. Hms yesso (probably)
27. Jamaica pioneer
28. James hall
29. Janus
30. Karianda
31. King alfred
32. King idwal
33. Lh 308 (possibly)
34. Lowdock
35. Luffness
36. Matador
37. New dawn (possibly)
38. Nora
39. Our merit (possibly)
40. Port gisborne
41. Queensbury (possibly)
42. Rowanbank
43. Sambre
44. Sandvik (possibly)
45. Shekatika
46. Sheriffmuir
47. Shirak
48. Silverburn
49. Soesterberg
50. St catherine (probably)
51. Star of luxor
52. Sturdee
53. Sylvafield
54. T6 (possibly)
55. Tanevik
56. Taurus (possibly)
57. Thiara
58. Trebartha
59. Trevorian
60. Uganda
61. Viking queen
62. Wandby
63. Whitford point
64. Xmas rose

 

Name: SANDVIK (POSSIBLY)

Length 65.8 meter, width: 9.8 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1021 ton
Load: coke

Cause: ex-temple. built in 1901 by a vuyk, yssel. owned at time of loss by tizona, fredrikstad. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 132hp, single shaft. passage london for christiana. cargo coke. torpedoed by uc-77.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 76 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2010

Details measurements/cartography: 27.3.17 POSN 565600N, 015200W. (AT). H4087/26 24.6.26 INS AS NDWPA(1917). H1192/67 26.4.67 NOT LOCATED BY SONAR OR E/S. (HMS ENTERPRISE, HI 49/66). DELETED. SEP 2009/000049721 1.7.09 WK LOCATED IN 5654.033N, 0153.761W [WGD] USING DGPS. HT APPROX 5.6MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 76.9MTRS. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY, HN DTD 17.6.09 FOR HI 1155). INS AS WK USC 70MTRS. BR STD. HH091/155/01 3.3.10 EXAM'D 14.6.09 IN 5654.033N, 0153.764W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 71.26 IN GEN DEPTH 76.8MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 55MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS, HT 5.6MTRS. LIES 00/180 DEGS WITH BOWS N. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT. (GARDLINE HYDRO, HI 1155). PROBABLY UPRIGHT. AMEND WK 71MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. SEP 2010/000097684 22.6.10 AMEND WK 71MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, ?BOWS N

Position: 56 54.033 N,1 53.764 W

 

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