This is the information page about the shipwreck Start, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 28.295 N,1 49.61 W (50.167166666667, -11.000666666667)

 

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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. Abel tasman (part of)(possibly)
2. Advanti
3. Ajax
4. Albert c field (probably)
5. Alexandrovna
6. Aparima
7. Arctic dawn
8. Arfon
9. Ashmun j clough (possibly)
10. Azemmour
11. Balmoralwood
12. Baron garioch
13. Barryman
14. Betelgeuse (bow section)
15. Betsy anna
16. Bobbyb
17. Borgny
18. Braedale (probably)
19. Brestois
20. Bretagne
21. Britannia (probably)
22. Campen
23. Carentan
24. Castlereagh
25. Ceres (possibly)
26. Chasseur 6
27. Chasseur 7
28. Cheyenne
29. Clan macvey
30. Clarinda
31. Coquetdale (probably)
32. Dagmar
33. Derna (probably)
34. Dulce t
35. Dumfries
36. Dungrange
37. El kahira
38. Emile miguet
39. Everleigh
40. Excelsior (possibly)
41. Fenna (probably)
42. Fleur de lys
43. Fluent
44. General jackson
45. Georgios kyriakides
46. Goathland
47. Halsewell
48. Hartburn (probably)
49. Hartley (possibly)
50. Heronspool
51. Hms albion ii
52. Hms assurance
53. Hms courageous
54. Hms dark gladiator
55. Hms eleanor (probably)
56. Hms fame
57. Hms john mitchell
58. Hms new dawn
59. Hms pomone
60. Hms sargasso
61. Hms waterlily
62. Hmsm safari (ex p 211)
63. Hmsm upstart
64. Ice prince
65. Iolanthe
66. Iona
67. Irex
68. Janna
69. Jgena (possibly)
70. Kafiristan
71. Kolga
72. Kong guttorm (probably)
73. Kyarra
74. Lady of avenel
75. Lapwing (possibly) or south western
76. Lct 809
77. Lcvp 120
78. Leny (possibly)
79. Leticia
80. License to kill (possibly)
81. Lil boat
82. Lochavon
83. Louisiane
84. Luxor
85. Mayflower
86. Mechanician
87. Messina
88. Michelle
89. Midland queen
90. Miefield
91. Millmer
92. Milo
93. Myrtlegrove (probably)
94. Nailsea lass
95. Navasota
96. Neree (possibly)
97. Nestlea
98. Nichola (probably)
99. Normandy
100. Nw68
101. Nw96
102. Pescalanza
103. Piedras
104. Prinses juliana (part of)(possibly)
105. Rapana
106. Reindeer
107. Rosehill (probably)
108. Sally jane
109. San fernando
110. Seahawk
111. Security (possibly)
112. Serrana (bow section)
113. Serrana (stern part)
114. Sheer grace
115. Snowdrop
116. Southampton
117. Spyros (possibly)
118. Start
119. Surdelo
120. Teamwork
121. Terlings
122. Theodoros t
123. Tiiu
124. Togimo
125. U 480
126. Ub 37 (probably)
127. Vari solo sailor
128. Varvassi
129. Venezuela
130. Vera (probably)
131. Vikholmen
132. Waitara
133. War knight
134. Westville
135. Woodbury
136. Xania

 

Name: START

Length 62.2 meter, width: 8.8 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 728 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1896 by scott & sons, bowling. owned at time of loss by actieselskabet start. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 98 nhp, single shaft. machinery by ross & duncan, glasgow. passage swansea for rouen. torpedoed by ub-58. (d c wendes). sank following a severe explosion which was thought to have been caused by a mine. (ww1sl). sunk by ub 57. only two of crew escaped. they were recovered by hmt thomas chambers. (dorset shipwrecks).

Year of registration: 1995

Water depth above wreck: 41 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1995, last detected: 2012

Details measurements/cartography: HH100/351/10 5.12.95 HH100/351/10 5.12.95 WK LIES SCATTERED OVER SEABED IN 502817N, 014935W [OGB]. BELL RECOVERED IN 1982. (J WELCH). CHART AS WK 35MTRS. BR STD. 9.8.99 9.8.99 STERN LIES OVER TO PORT, PROPELLER AND RUDDER VISIBLE. FWD END IS UPRIGHT. BOW PLATES RUSTED AWAY SO THAT ALL THAT REMAINS IS THE STEM POST. (DORSET SHIPWRECKS). 2.2.07 2.2.07 LIES IN 43MTRS. ENGINE LIES TO PORT, THE SINGLE BOILER AND THE VERTICAL DONKEY BOILER BEING THE HIGHEST PARTS. STERN LIES HALF OVER TO PORT WHILE FROM THE BOILER TO THE BOWS THE WRECK IS UPRIGHT, BUT HAS COLLAPSED TO PORT. SPARE PROP IS CLOSE TO THE BOILER ON THE STBD SIDE. (D C WENDES, SOUTH COAST SHIPWRECKS). NCA. 25.10.12 25.10.12 EXAM'D 28.1.12 IN 5028.295N, 0149.610W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 35.95 IN GEN DEPTH 41MTRS. LEAST W/C DEPTH 35.91MTRS. SCOUR 0.5MTR DEEP EXTENDS 10MTRS TOWARDS 090 DEGS. LENGTH 70MTRS, WIDTH 16MTRS, HT 4.5MTRS. LIES 090/270 DEGS WITH BOWS E. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. NOT INTACT, PARTIALLY BURIED. (EMU, HI 1366). RETAIN WK 35MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: STERN LIES TO PORT, BOILERS ARE HIGHEST PART

Position: 50 28.295 N,1 49.61 W

 

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