This is the information page about the shipwreck Stanhope, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 8.604 N,3 45.471 W (50.143400, -3.757850)

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: STANHOPE

Length 101.5 meter, width: 14 meter, draught: 6.7, tonnage 2854 ton
Load: railway: stock and construction materials,metal: concentrate and products

Cause: built in 1900 by ropner & sons. owned at the time of loss by english steamship co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 275nhp, single shaft. passage falmouth for dunkirk. torpedoed by u-60. 22 men lost. (ww1sl & dods).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 64 meter, Height above seabed: 133 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2004

Details measurements/cartography: H0113/45 25.3.45 WK IN APPROX 500806N, 034700W. LENGTH 110FT, HEIGHT 12FT. GAVE OFF LARGE QUANTITIES OF OIL. GOOD SONAR CONTACT. (PLYMOUTH LIST, 25.3.45). GOOD SONAR CONTACT IN 500806N, 034700W. (C-IN-C PLYMOUTH, JULY 1945). H2502/51 24.1.52 WK LOCATED IN 500835N, 034521W USING SONAR. LEAST E/S DEPTH 30FMS. STANDS 38FT ABOVE SEABED. (HMS SEAGULL, 1950, SURVEY [E8881]). CHART AS WK 30FMS [55MTRS]. BR STD. H1936/80 1.10.81 LARGE INTACT WK EXAM'D 9.4.81 IN 500836N, 034525W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 54 IN GEN DEPTH 65MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 10.5MTRS. ABOUT 90MTRS LONG, LYING NW/SE. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 5/81). AMEND TO WK 54MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. H5982/82 10.2.83 WK SHOWN IN 500829N, 034522W, USING DECCA, ON KINGFISHER CHART K(SW)3 [1982 EDN]. NCA. HH100/351/01 24.8.89 IDENTIFIED AS WK OF 'STANHOPE' BY RECOVERED BELL AND MANUFACTURER'S PLATE. LIES UPRIGHT WITH STERN TO NW. INTACT TO NO 2 HOLD BUT FOREPART HAS BROKEN OFF, LYING WITH LIST OF 40DEGS TO STBD AND WELL BROKEN. CARGO STEEL RAILS. CHARTED DEPTH CORRECT. (A HILLGROVE, 19.7.89). NCA. HH091/059/01 4.5.05 EXAM'D 19.7.04 IN 5008.604N, 0345.471W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 54.9 IN GEN DEPTH 64.8MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 98MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS, HT 9.9MTRS. LIES 133/313 DEGS WITH BOWS TOWARDS 313 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. PARTIALLY COLLAPSED, UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 1059). AMEND WK 54MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, PARTIALLY COLLAPSED

Position: 50 8.604 N,3 45.471 W

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