This is the information page about the shipwreck Spital, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 4.888 N,4 58.523 W (50.081467, -4.975383)

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: SPITAL

Length 119 meter, width: 15.9 meter, draught: 8.1, tonnage 4718 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1907 by scott's shipbuilding & engineering co ltd, greenock. passage south shields for savona. torpedoed by u-93. (ll ww1 & sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 59 meter, Height above seabed: 30 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H4856/52 9.9.52 NDW IN 500500N, 045820W. NOTE. H4856/52 29.3.60 WK OF LARGE CARGO VESSEL, STANDING APPROX 45FT ABOVE SEABED, IN 500500N, 045820W [OGB]. (HMS RECLAIM, 28.7.52). 5.5.60 SONAR CONTACT IN 500454N, 045754W [OGB]. (AUBD/301/94). H4239/73 15.8.74 GOOD SIDE-SCAN SONAR CONTACT OBTAINED IN 500454N, 045827W [OGB] USING HIFIX. NOT LOCATED BY E/S. (HMS HECATE). NCA YET. H2979/74 18.2.76 FASTENER REPORTED IN 500523N, 045832W [OGB]. POSN BY DECCA. (E GILES, 29.1.76). NCA. H1270/78 23.3.79 LOCATED 31.7.72. LEAST E/S DEPTH 49.8MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 61MTRS. NOT FULLY SURVEYED. (HMS WOODLARK). USE HMS RECLAIM HT OF 1960. CHART AS WK PA 47MTRS IN 500500N, 045820W [OGB]. BR STD. HH100/351/15 16.2.00 DIVED 4.12.99 IN 5004.924N, 0458.452W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 51 IN GEN DEPTH 61MTRS. LENGTH 130MTRS, WIDTH 18MTRS. HT BY DEPTH GAUGE 9-10MTRS. SEABED SAND & SILT. INTACT. COVERED IN NETS. (J ROSEVEARE). AMEND TO WK 50MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 30.6.06 LIES BETWEEN 5004.878N, 0458.527W [WGD] AND 5004.899N, 0458.521W WITH BOWS WNW. DEPTH TO SEABED 64.5MTRS AT LW. STANDS 15MTRS HIGH. (R SHORT, TELECON). NCA. SEP 2014/000153151 22.9.14 EXAM'D 21.7.14 IN 5004.888N, 0458.523W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 53.2 IN GEN DEPTH 59MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 85MTRS, WIDTH 21MTRS, HT 5.8MTRS. LIES 030/210 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT, LISTS TO STBD. (MMT, HI 1455). BOWS SW. AMEND WK WK 53MTRS IN REVISED POSN. 5.11.14 LEAST M/B DEPTH 53.07MTRS. (SDC BATHY, HI 1455). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, BOWS SW, COVERED IN NETS

Position: 50 4.888 N,4 58.523 W

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