This is the information page about the shipwreck Strombus (part of)(probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 34.66 N,3 58.688 W (51.292766666667, -4.0713)

 

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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. Bengrove (probably)
2. Beninin (possibly)
3. Cabenda
4. Carare
5. Creag mhor
6. Delfin
7. Eldon park
8. Fagernes (probably)
9. Fort medine
10. G a savage (possibly)
11. Harvester
12. Inverdargle (bow section) (probably)
13. Inverdargle (stern section) (probably)
14. Kendy
15. Madjoe
16. Marianela santander
17. Pen-y-mor (possibly)
18. Plantes welvard (possibly)
19. Prince ivanhoe
20. Riptide
21. Riverton (stern portion) (possibly)
22. Samtampa
23. Scarweather ltv
24. Shane
25. Sirdar
26. Solor (stern part) (probably)
27. Stalheim
28. Strombus (part of)
29. Strombus (part of)
30. Strombus (part of)
31. Strombus (part of)(probably)
32. Trevessa
33. Yesso

 

Name: STROMBUS (PART OF)(PROBABLY)

Length 125 meter, width: 15.9 meter, draught: 9.8, tonnage 6549 ton
Load: coal,flammable liquids and gases

Cause: 12.11.42 built in 1900 by armstrong & whitworth co, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by a/s sevilla, onesimus. passage swansea for antarctic. cargo coal & patent fuel. detonated a german-laid mine. tugs towed to swansea and vessel beached. on 12.11.42 taken to briton ferry for breaking but forecastle broke off, drifted away and capsized and still lies on the seabed. it is possible that none of the vessel arrived for breaking and that the three sections are parts of the entire vessel. dispersed by explosives by cosag diving in 1977. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1972

Water depth above wreck: 0 meter

Known since: 1972, last detected: 2003

Details measurements/cartography: NO PREVIOUS RECORD. 4.2.72 INS F ON NC1161. (EXISTING CHART 1161 COR TO NM 1076/71). H1934/78 27.3.81 SMALL AMOUNT OF WRECKAGE WITH KEEL 1MTR HIGH LOCATED IN 513438N, 035837W [OGB]. SHOWN AS ST D 1.5MTRS ON FAIR SHEET - K8588/1. (HMS FOX HI 53/79). AMEND TO ST DRIES 1.5MTRS. BR STD. HH214/430/04 29.4.03 WK HAS BEEN DISTURBED AND MAY HAVE MOVED SLIGHTLY. A POST PROTRUDING 2.5MTRS ABOVE THE MAIN HULL HAS BEEN OBSERVED. (TH, FAX DTD 28.4.03). AMEND TO ST DRIES 2.5MTRS.

- NM 2443/03. HH214/430/04 23.5.03 ANGLEBAR PROTRUSION ON WK HAS BEEN CUT. NOW DRIES 1MTR IN GEN DEPTH DRIES 0.5MTR. (TH FAX DTD 16.5.03). NCA. HH214/430/04 23.5.03 NOW ST DRIES 1.0MTR. (TH NM 15/03).

- NM 2963/03.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 34.66 N,3 58.688 W

 

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