This is the information page about the shipwreck Sphene, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 6.9 N,1 38.742 W (50.24245, -1.9068)

 

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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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37. Pangani
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Name: SPHENE

Length 59.6 meter, width: 9.2 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 740 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1902 by a rodger & co of port glasgow. owned at time of loss by w robertson of glasgow. a ss with schooner rig. captured by german submarine while on passage honfleur for newport. sunk by explosives.

Year of registration: 1951

Water depth above wreck: 63 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1951, last detected: 2001

Details measurements/cartography: H03504/51 24.7.51 A VERY OLD DISINTEGRATING WRECK IN 500654N, 013836W, LENGTH 120-200FT, HEIGHT 27FT & ORIENTATION 000/180DEGS. (C-IN-C PORTSMOUTH). CHART AS NDW. BR STD. 11.8.77 NOW CHARTED AS USC 50MTRS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NC 2450. 22.8.78 NOW CHARTED AS WK 50MTRS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 2454. 23.1.80 SHOWN AS NDW PA ON FR 878 [DEC '79 EDN]. NCA. 7.3.90 WK 50MTRS SHOWN IN 500700N, 013836W [EUR] ON FR 6857 [1986 EDN]. NE 2613. 30.4.90 WK 50MTRS IN 500659.5N, 013836W [EUR] WITH POSN ACCURACY 100MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 58MTRS BY E/S. (FR WK RECORDS NO.18101019 [CORR TO JAN 1990]). NC 2613. 7.2.96 WK 58MTRS IN 500657N, 013839.5W [EUR]. (FR WK NO.18101019). [OGB] POSN: 500651.5N, 013839W. BR STD. HH100/351/16 9.10.00 THIS IS THE SPHENE. IDENTIFIED BY BELL. (N R CHIPCHASE, LTRS DTD 10.00 & 7.01). NCA. HH226/410/06 1.8.01 SMALL SS LYING ACROSS THE TIDE. QUITE BROKEN AND STANDS NO MORE THAN 4MTRS HIGH. SINGLE BOILER AND TRIPLE EXPANSION ENGINE AFT. BELIEVED THAT BELL RECOVERED IN 2000 WITH NAME SPHENE. LEAST DEPTH AT LW NEAPS IS 66MTRS. (D C WENDES, LTR DTD 13.7.01). NCA. 4.12.12 [WGD] POSN: 5006.900N, 0138.742W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

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Position: 50 6.9 N,1 38.742 W

 

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