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 39.634 N,0 12.766 E (50.6523667, -0.6161833)

 

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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. 010
2. Afon dulais
3. Alan dean
4. Alaska
5. Alaunia
6. Algiers
7. Alison (possibly)
8. Angry fish
9. Aracataca
10. Ariel
11. Armenier
12. Arno (possibly)
13. Ashford
14. Atlas (probably)
15. Axwell
16. Barn hill
17. Basil-2
18. Bernicia
19. Bettann (bow section)
20. Blanefield
21. Branksome chine (possibly)
22. Braunton
23. Broadhurst (probably)
24. Cairndhu
25. Caleb sprague
26. Cambrian princess (probably)
27. Candia
28. Carbineer
29. Carrie dingle
30. Caterham
31. Celtic
32. Charles m
33. City of brisbane
34. City of mexico
35. City of waterford
36. Clan macmillan
37. Clara
38. Cuba
39. D144 (possibly).
40. Del rio
41. Devon coast
42. Donegal (possibly)
43. Duchess (possibly)
44. Duke of buccleuch
45. Eduard (possibly)
46. Elford
47. Emerald (possibly)
48. F d lambert (possibly)
49. F/v joanna c
50. Fife coast (possibly)
51. Flag theofano
52. Fort yale
53. Fpt iv
54. Frockner
55. Frode
56. Fulham vii (probably)
57. Gartland
58. Gascony
59. George sutton
60. Gerarda
61. Gerlen (possibly)
62. Germa geisha
63. Glenarm head (possibly)
64. Glenarm head (possibly)
65. Glenartney (possibly)
66. Glendinning (possibly)
67. Glenlee
68. Harold
69. Heathpool
70. Heathpool
71. Hedwig lunstedt
72. Highland corrie
73. Hms apley (possibly)
74. Hms ariadne
75. Hms avanturine
76. Hms balfour
77. Hms borneo
78. Hms evadne (possibly)
79. Hms gambri (possibly)
80. Hms hazardous
81. Hms implacable
82. Hms lancer ii
83. Hms minion
84. Hms moldavia
85. Hms northcoates
86. Hms ocean sunlight
87. Hms pine
88. Hms prince leopold
89. Hms resolution (possibly)
90. Hms sapper
91. Hms taipo
92. Hms vernon ii (possibly)
93. Hmsm a1
94. Holland v
95. Holme force (possibly)
96. Huntsmoor
97. Hush wing
98. Ikeda (possibly)
99. Indiana
100. Inger (possibly)
101. Ingo
102. Jaffa
103. James groves
104. Joseph roberts (possibly)
105. Lalen mendi
106. Lass o'doune (probably)
107. Leven (possibly)
108. Lightfoot (possibly)
109. Lola (possibly)
110. London trader (possibly)
111. Lowmount
112. Lullington
113. Lulonga (possibly)
114. Ma monette
115. Maaslust
116. Marga
117. Marie marguerite (possibly)
118. Mill gate (probably)
119. Miown
120. Mira
121. Mohlenpris (possibly)
122. Molesey (possibly)
123. Montecrana (possibly)
124. Mount stuart
125. Mv adur valley?
126. Newent
127. Noordster
128. Northlands (possibly)
129. Ny-eeasteyr
130. Nyon
131. Oceana
132. Pagenturm
133. Patrice didier (probably)
134. Pentyrch
135. Polandia (possibly)
136. Porthkerry
137. Quail
138. Ramsgarth
139. Ramsholm (possibly)
140. Rfa hungerford (possibly)
141. Rytoner
142. Saint andre (probably)
143. Saint ronaig
144. Seaford
145. Seven seas (possibly)
146. Shirala
147. Sines (possibly)
148. Spearfish
149. St rogatien (possibly)
150. Stanhope
151. Stanwold
152. Stavros (possibly)
153. T r thompson
154. Teelin head
155. U 1195
156. U 212 (probably)
157. U 275 (probably)
158. U 40 (possibly)
159. U 671
160. U 86 (formerly)
161. U 86 (possibly)
162. Ub 130
163. Ub 81
164. Ub 86 (possibly)
165. Vasco
166. Venus
167. Vesuvio (possibly)
168. Vigda
169. War helmet
170. Wilhelmina j
171. Zaanstroom

 

Name: STANHOPE

Length 74.4 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 4.8, tonnage 1367 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore

Cause: Built in 1882 of iron by irvine & co, west hartlepool. owned at time of loss by english ss co, middlesbrough. two boilers, compound expansion engine of 156 nhp, single shaft. passage bilbao for middlesbrough. sank following collision with schooner coal tar, of london, in wnw force 4. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1974

Water depth above wreck: 29 meter, Height above seabed: 168 cm

Known since: 1974, last detected: 20150716

Details measurements/cartography: H4959/73 29.10.74 WK LOCATED. LEAST E/S DEPTH 24.5MTRS. (HMS BEAGLE). WAIT SURVEY. NCA. H2979/74 12.12.74 LOCATED IN 503948N, 001245E [OGB] USING DECCA. LIES VERY BROKEN ON VERY SOFT SILT SEABED. DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY PARTS. LIES N/S WITH MAX. HT ABOUT 25FT. ABOUT 2000-2500 GRT. BOW SECTION HAS TWISTED 90DEGS TO REMAINDER OF WK. HAS CAST IRON PROPELLER OF ABOUT 15FT DIAMETER. (E GILES). H4959/73 23.4.75 EXAM'D 15.10.74 IN 503935N, 001250E [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 24.5 IN GEN DEPTH 29MTRS. LENGTH APPROX 100FT. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 55/74). CHART AS WK 24.5MTRS [13FMS 2FT]. NE 536 & NE 2451. H4121/76 28.7.76 SWEPT CLEAR AT 21.2MTRS. (SOISS, SIG DTD 14.6.76).

- NM 1547/76. H4121/76 4.8.76 EXAM'D 3.6.75 IN LISTED POSN. SWEPT CLEAR 21.2, FOUL 22.4MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 23.3 IN GEN DEPTH 29.3MTRS. LIES 165/345DEGS. DCS3 LENGTH 79MTRS, FROM E/S EXAMINATION 75MTRS. (HMS ECHO, HI 41/76). NCA. H2979/74 25.11.76 LOCATED BY MAGNETOMETER IN 503914N, 001131.5E [OGB] USING DECCA. LIES NNE/SSW WITH HIGHEST PART (STERN) TO NORTH AND IS UPSIDE DOWN - ABOUT 25FT HIGH. BOW LIES ON STBD SIDE - ABOUT 20FT HIGH. MIDSHIPS SECTION VERY BROKEN. NARROW SCOUR, 5FT DEEP, ON THE W SIDE OF WK. (E GILES, SUBSERVS, 13.11.76). 1.9.77 ABOVE DESCRIPTION (OF 11.11.76) CONFIRMED. THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT WK OF THE 'BRAUNTON' [SEE 20411]. (F HINDS, RISDON BEAZLEY, TELECON). 21.10.77 NOW CHARTED AS SW 21MTRS. NC 2450. 13.1.09 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. BOILER TILE (?FIREBRICK) LOCATED MADE BY THOMAS PEAKE & CO, WATERGARE, TUNSTALL. THIS WOULD INDICATE THAT THIS IS NOT 'INGER'. ALSO FOUND WERE SOME ENGLISH PENNIES, THE LATEST DATE BEING 1897. MEASURED LENGTH 94MTRS, WIDTH 11.6MTRS. HAS TWO BOILERS AND A TRIPLE EXPANSION ENGINE. POSSIBLY 'PONTOS'. (J SMITH, EMAIL DTD 10.1.09). NCA. 10.8.11 LIES IN 5039.650N, 0012.750E [WGD]. HELM LOCATED BY J SMITH AND R KING (TUNBRIDGE WELLS SAC). ON THE CENTER BOSS WAS FOUND THE MAKER'S NAME: 'IRVINE & CO, WEST HARTLEPOOL, SHIP BUILDERS'. WK HAS TWO BOILERS AND A TWO CYLINDER ENGINE THUS WE CONSIDER THAT THIS IS 'STANHOPE', SUNK 16.3.1900. (J SMITH, EMAIL DTD 1.8.11). NCA. SEP 2015/000083466 8.2.16 EXAM'D 16.07.15 IN 5039.634N, 0012.766E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 23.20MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 29.20MTRS. NO SCOUR, LENGTH 70MTRS, HT 6MTRS, WIDTH 25MTRS. BROKEN UP WK, PARTIALLY BURIED, STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY, HI 1477). AMEND DW 23MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BOWS S ON SIDE, STERN INVERTED, LENGTH BY DIVER

Position: 50 39.634 N,0 12.766 E

 

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