This is the information page about the shipwreck South australian, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 12.808 N,4 36.158 W (51.065266666667, -4.40345)

 

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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.

 

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Name: SOUTH AUSTRALIAN

Length 61.3 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 6.1, tonnage 1078 ton
Load: railway: stock and construction materials

Cause: built in 1868 by w pile & co, sunderland with a wooden hull on iron frames. owned at time of loss by devitt & moore. south australian was the sister-ship of the city of adelaide, one of only two clipper ships that survive today, the other being the cutty sark. for most of her working life the south australian traded between the uk and australia carrying cargo and passengers and was heavily involved in the emigrant trade. in february 1889 she set sail from cardiff, laden with rails and fish plates for railway customers, but foundered in severe weather in the bristol channel.

Year of registration: 1992

Water depth above wreck: 39 meter, Height above seabed: 51 cm

Known since: 1992, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: HH100/351/05 22.4.92 WK, KNOWN AS STANLEY BANK WK, DIVED ON IN 511259.5N, 043618W [OGB]. POSN FROM DECCA. LIES ON A SAND BANK AND CAN BE BURIED AT TIMES. (J T HEWITT, 20.3.92). NCA. HH100/351/14 4.8.99 DIVED IN 5112.825N, 0436.127W [WGD]. CONSISTS OF RAILWAY LINES AND OTHER METAL. MOST PROBABLY OF A SAILING SHIP. DEPTH TO TOP OF WK IS 37MTRS AT LW SPRINGS. (A PLATT, LTR DTD 2.8.99). INS AS WK 35MTRS. BR STD. HH090/798/01 19.10.99 EXAM'D 25.9.99 IN 5112.808N, 0436.152W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 35.6, FOUL 36.2MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 35.3 IN GEN DEPTH 39MTRS. SCOUR 1.5MTRS EXTENDS 120MTRS TOWARDS 250 DEGS. LENGTH 35MTRS, WIDTH 18MTRS. DCS3 HT 5MTRS. INTACT. SWELL OF 1.5MTRS DURING SWEEPING. (NP 1016, HI 798B). AMEND TO SW 35MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. HH100/351/22 8.9.04 DIVED IN 5112.786N, 0436.150W [WGD]. CONSIDERED TO BE 'SOUTH AUSTRALIAN'. (K DENBY, EMAIL DTD 5.9.04). NCA. HH091/158/01 16.7.08 LOCATED 3.6.07 IN 5112.808N, 0436.158W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 35.27 IN GEN DEPTH 39.9MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 50.6MTRS, WIDTH 36.0MTRS, HT 4.6MTRS. LIES 051/231 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (FURUGO OSAE, HI 1158). INTACT. RETAIN SW 35MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 1.7.15 WESSEX ARCHAEOLOGY CONDUCTED A GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY UNDERTAKEN IN JULY 2015 BY DR STEPHANIE ARNOTT AND LAURA ANDREWS. ILLFRACOMBE SAC DIVE BOAT "NEPTUNE" USED. SIDE SCAN SONAR WAS USED TO SURVEY AREA. ILLFRACOMBE AND NORTH DEVON SAC DIVED THE SITE IN THE LATE 1980'S AND POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED WK AS "SOUTH AUSTRALIAN" IN 2005. 27.8.20 CLIPPER "SOUTH AUSTRALIAN" LOCATED IN 5112.808N, 0436.158W, [WGD] HAS BEEN AWARDED SCHEDULED MONUMENT STATUS (The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979), DTD 8/11/2019. LIST ENTRY NUMBER 1465225. ADD "HISTORIC" TO STATUS AND REST'D AREA RADIUS 75MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Rest'D area 75m radius.

Position: 51 12.808 N,4 36.158 W

 

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