This is the information page about the shipwreck Stanburn, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 59.683 N,0 8.525 E (53.740283, 0.209967)

 

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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.

 

1. Acklamd (possibly)
2. Agnes
3. Airdrie (possibly)
4. Albatross
5. Appolonia
6. Beaconsfield
7. Bellerophon
8. Biesbosch
9. Birtley
10. Boys own
11. Brabant
12. Brema
13. British councillor
14. British prince
15. Briton (possibly)
16. Cadmus
17. Cambrai
18. Canada
19. Caroline
20. Chant 63
21. Charing cross (possibly)
22. Chicago
23. Chloris (possibly)
24. Commonwealth
25. Corinth (possibly)
26. Cyclope
27. Dana (possibly)
28. Diana
29. Diana
30. Dryade
31. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
32. Dunstaffnage
33. Elfrida
34. Empress (probably)
35. Feltre
36. Forest queen
37. Frithof eide
38. Georgios
39. Girl ita
40. Goodwood
41. Graafjeld
42. Greltoria (probably)
43. Hannah louisa
44. Harnis (probably)
45. Helmsman (probably)
46. Hercules
47. Hms akranes
48. Hms botanic
49. Hms dirk
50. Hms fairy
51. Hms falcon (stern section)
52. Hms falmouth
53. Hms thomas cornwall
54. Horsted
55. Hugh taylor
56. Ida
57. J b paddon
58. Janet helen (possibly)
59. John rettig (probably)
60. Kalo (probably)
61. Kilrea
62. Kilrea (probably)
63. Kimberley (possibly)
64. Kingston cameo
65. Knuthenborg
66. Laconia (possibly)
67. Lady anstruther (probably)
68. Lady josyan
69. Landport (possibly)
70. Leander
71. Lifeguard (possibly)
72. Lindum
73. Longbenton (probably)
74. Lyra (bow section)
75. Magdalyn ann
76. Maggie
77. Malvina (fwd part)
78. Manchester engineer (probably)
79. Marian francis
80. Markersdall (probably)
81. Mazeppa
82. Middlesborough
83. Modig
84. Modiva (possibly)
85. Mongolian
86. Nitedal
87. Norfolk coast
88. Onward (possibly)
89. Orsa
90. Otis tetrax
91. Our lorraine
92. Paddington (possibly) & unknown
93. Paraciers
94. Peebles (possibly)
95. Portia
96. Realf
97. Riviere
98. Rosa
99. Seistan
100. Sirajah
101. Sna iii
102. Sota eduardo
103. Stanburn
104. Storm drift
105. Tees
106. Thea
107. Togston (possibly)
108. Tredegar hall
109. Trongate
110. Ub 107 & malvina (after part)
111. Uc 39
112. Uc 47
113. Uc 75
114. Umbe
115. Upminster (possibly)
116. Varangmalm (possibly)
117. Ville de valenciennes
118. War crocus (possibly)
119. Wayside flower (possibly)
120. Whitemantle (possibly)

 

Name: STANBURN

Length 101.8 meter, width: 13.7 meter, draught: 6.7, tonnage 2881 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: ex-hebburn '38. built in 1924 by wood, skinner & co, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by the stanhope ss co (j a billmeir & co ltd, managers). two boilers, triple expansion engine of 359hp, single shaft. machinery by ne marine eng co ltd. passage zeebrugge for the tyne. in ballast. bombed and machine gunned by german aircraft. 25 men lost. (llww1 & sibi). was in convoy at time of loss. (s old).

Year of registration: 1980

Water depth above wreck: 38 meter, Height above seabed: 105 cm

Known since: 1980, last detected: 20160310

Details measurements/cartography: H5084/77 18.3.80 EXAMINED 24.9.79 IN 535940N, 000839E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 32.6 IN GEN DEPTH 39MTRS. DCS3 HT 6.8MTRS. LENGTH 110MTRS. LYING 130/310DEGS. PARTIALLY BURIED IN SAND. (HMS EGERIA, HI 64/79). BR STD. 5.8.94 KNOWN LOCALLY AS THE WRECK OF THE `BIG STACKS'. (S R WOOD, TELECON DTD 3.8.94). [NO DATE] WK [8977] PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT TO BE 'STANBURN'. HH100/351/18 8.4.02 POSN 5359.667N, 0008.530W [WGD]. VERY LARGE WRECK, STANDS HIGH OFF THE SANDY SEABED. THREE BOILERS AND ENGINE UPRIGHT. BOWS S. BELL RECOVERED WITH NAME 'HEBBURN'. (A C JACKSON & C A RACEY). NCA. HH100/351/20 5.9.03 VESSEL'S NAME CHANGED FROM HEBBURN TO STANBURN IN 1938. POSN GIVEN AS 5359.683N, 0008.437E [WGD] BY GPS. REPORTED BY S OLD, B WOOLFORD, D SMITH, B JOLLEY. (S OLD E-MAIL DTD 16.7.03) NCA. SEP 2016/000053291 5.10.16 EXAM'D 10.3.16; IN 5359.683N, 0008.525 [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 31.74MTRS, GEN DEPTH 38MTRS. LENGTH 111.7MTRS, WIDTH 36.9MTRS, HT 7.2MTRS, ORIENTATION 105/285 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY, WK CONSIDERABLY DEGRADED. (MMT, HI 1473, H525_8986). AMEND NDW 31MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Wreck well degraded.

Position: 53 59.683 N,0 8.525 E

 

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