This is the information page about the shipwreck Shakespeare, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 8.954 N,1 54.63 W (56.149233, -1.910500)

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: SHAKESPEARE

Length 33.9 meter, width: 6.8 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 210 ton

Cause: built in 1908 by earle's co ltd, hull. owned at time of loss by hellyer's steam fishing co ltd. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 47 nhp, single shaft. machinery by amos & smith, hull. passage hull for fishing and return. captured by ub-22, abandoned and sunk by scuttling charges. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1962

Water depth above wreck: 53 meter, Height above seabed: 85 cm

Known since: 1962, last detected: 2007

Details measurements/cartography: H2905/62 14.8.62 LEAST E/S 155FT IN 174FT. (HMS SCOTT, MAY 1962). INS AS NDW.

- NM 2748/62. 30.7.68 AMEND TO WK 26FMS 0FT. BR STD. 1.3.71 AMEND TO WK 48MTRS. NC 1402. HH091/051/01 22.1.04 EXAM'D 11.10.03 IN 5608.954N, 0154.630W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 46.35 IN GEN DEPTH 52MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 40MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. DCS3 HT 4.5MTRS. LIES 085/265 DEGS WITH BOWS TOWARDS 085 DEGS. INTACT AND UPRIGHT. NFS. (NP 1008, HI 1051). SCOUR 1MTR DEEP. AMEND WK 46MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. HH242/640/06 29.1.04 PNM 1307/04 ISSUED. 4.12.07 DIVED 7.10.07 IN LISTED POSN. STANDS 4MTRS HIGH BY DEPTH GAUGE. LIES ON EVEN KEEL WITH UPPER DECKING SAGGING INWARDS TOWARDS THE CENTRE. BRIDGE HAS DISINTEGRATED LEAVING DEBRIS ON THE MAIN STRUCTURE. FOUR MTRS FROM THE BOW ON THE PORT SIDE THERE IS A 'V'-SHAPED HOLE EXTENDING FROM THE GUNWHALE (IT IS 5MTRS WIDE) TO THE SEABED (1MTR WIDE), WHERE EXPLOSIVES WERE PLACED. WRECKAGE SPILLS OUT INTO THE SCOUR, EXTENDING SOME 4MTRS. TRIPLE EXPANSION ENGINE AND 4-BLADED PROP. ANCHOR ON BOW DECK. BELL RECOVERED FOR IDENTIFICATON. NOTHING IN THE HOLDS APART FROM A SMALL AMOUNT OF COAL. CINC REQUESTED. (DIVED BY J MCLEOD & M SINCLAIR, VIA I EASINGWOOD). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, BOWS E

Position: 56 8.954 N,1 54.63 W

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