This is the information page about the shipwreck Skane, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 29.601 N,0 37.368 W (54.493350, -0.622800)

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: SKANE

Length 78.6 meter, width: 10.9 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 1667 ton
Load: timber

Cause: ex-dauntless. built in 1884 by w gray & co, west hartlepool owned at time of loss by rederiaktiebol, helsingborg. two boilers, compound expansion engine of 173hp, single shaft. passage stockholm for calais. cargo timber. refloated after grounding on whitby rock in fine weather, but beached at whitby in sinking condition the following day in bad weather.

Year of registration: 1965

Water depth above wreck: 0 meter, Height above seabed: 30 cm

Known since: 1965, last detected: 20170203

Details measurements/cartography: H1101/65 15.3.65 STEEL WK, DRYING 1FT, LOCATED IN 542936.6N, 003716.2W. EXTENDS APPROX 200FT FROM CHART DATUM AND AT RIGHT ANGLES TO LW LINE. (RN PARTY SANDSTONE, HN 26.2.65). KNOWN LOCALLY AS WK OF 'SKAINE'. VERY OLD, SCATTERED REMAINS, INCLUDING TANKS, BOILERS ETC, WHICH SHOW ABOVE THE SAND. (DEPUTY HARBOURMASTER, WHITBY, TELECON, 11.3.65). INS AS DWP (REMAINS) D 1FT [0.3MTRS]. BR STD. 13.12.74 AMEND TO DWP (REMAINS), DR 0.9MTRS [LAT]. NC 1612. 14.7.81 AMEND STF (REMAINS), D 0.9MTRS. NE 1612. H6331/87 20.1.89 NOT LOCATED USING DCS3. (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). APPARENTLY LIES SHOREWARDS OF AREA ACTUALLY SURVEYED. NCA. 11.6.91 APPLICATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED FOR THE REMOVAL OF REMAINING WRECKAGE FROM THE SKANE USING EXPLOSIVES AS IT IS CONSIDERED HAZARDOUS. (YORKSHIRE POLICE, TELECON). 14.1.92 NOTHING VISIBLE ON PHOTOPLOT PG 2041 - LP1. (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY DTD 11.3.89). AMENDED TO ST (DRIES 0.9MTRS). REDRAWN ON SMALLER SCALE. NE 1612. 28.2.06 EUT POSN: 5429.620N, 0037.371W. BA 1612 [6TH EDN, MAY '02]. SEP 2017/000087052 4.8.17 EXAM'D 03.02.17; IN 5429.601N, 0037.368W [WGD]. LEAST W/C DEPTH DRIES 0.58MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 0MTRS, LENGTH 44MTRS, WIDTH 27MTRS, HEIGHT 1.1MTRS, ORIENTATION 030/210DEGS. WRECK IS SEVERELY DEGRADED AND SCATTERED. (MMT, HI 1491A). AMEND ST DRIES 0.6MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 29.601 N,0 37.368 W

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