This is the information page about the shipwreck Swainby (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 56.844 N,4 41.582 W (50.822183333333, -4.5627833333333)

 

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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. Balvenie (possibly)
2. Bath city (possibly)
3. Bogstad
4. Brabant
5. Brisk (probably)
6. Cambronne
7. Charlynne ii (probably)
8. Clangula (probably)
9. Deputie gaston dumesnil (possibly)
10. Diligent
11. Dumfries
12. Empire otter
13. Ezra weston (bow section)
14. Ezra weston (stern section)
15. Florence reynolds
16. Girdleness
17. Gregynog
18. Hmcs regina
19. Hmhs rewa
20. Hms montague
21. Iona ii
22. Johanna
23. Lci(l)99
24. Lisa maria
25. Marguerite pry
26. Milly (possibly)
27. Monte gurugu (possibly)
28. Mountpark (possibly)
29. N verberckmoes (possibly)
30. Northfield (possibly)
31. Pallion (probably)
32. Pearn pride (possibly)
33. Poitiers (part of)(possibly)
34. Provider (possibly)
35. Queenswood (part of)(possibly)
36. Robert
37. Salado
38. Sarah anderson (possibly)
39. Sarla
40. Shad thames
41. South australian
42. Ss fatfield
43. Svint
44. Swainby (probably)
45. Teneriffa (possibly)
46. Thistlemor
47. Towneley
48. Villasandino

 

Name: SWAINBY (PROBABLY)

Length 99.1 meter, width: 14.6 meter, draught: 7.9, tonnage 3653 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1904 by blair & co, stockton-on-tees. owned at time of loss by j h hopner & co, west hartlepool. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 322nhp, single shaft. passage newport, mon, for port louis. foundered following collsion with ss hillbrook in sw force 5. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1944

Water depth above wreck: 36 meter, Height above seabed: 40 cm

Known since: 1944, last detected: 2004

Details measurements/cartography: 29.12.44 29.12.44 & 25.1.45 GOOD SONAR CONTACT IN 505700N, 044115W [OGB]. LENGTH 225FT, HEIGHT 36FT, DIRN 023/203DEGS. (ESCORT GROUP 9, AUBD 321/5). 19.4.71 19.4.71 NOW CHARTED AS NDW PA. (TONNAGE NOT KNOWN). NC 1156. 14.11.72 14.11.72 NOW CHARTED AS USC 10FMS [18MTRS]. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 1178. H1247/69 11.10.78 H1247/69 11.10.78 AMENDED TO WK 20MTRS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. 19.6.79 19.6.79 SHOWN AS LCT 921 IN 505648N, 044124W [OGB]. POSN BY DECCA. (R. DAVIS, CHART). NCA YET. HH090/799/01 10.1.02 HH090/799/01 10.1.02 EXAM'D 10.11.01 IN 5056.844N, 0441.582W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 34.4 IN GEN DEPTH 36MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 78MTRS, WIDTH 28MTRS. DCS3 HT 3.5MTRS. LIES 040/220 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT. LIES UPRIGHT IN A DEPRESSION, PROBABLY OF ITS OWN MAKING. LITTLE PROTRUSION ABOVE THE SURRROUNDING SEABED. (NP 1008, HI 799). BR STD. HH100/351/22 8.9.04 HH100/351/22 8.9.04 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. THIS IS A SMALL COASTER WHICH LIES INTACT AND INVERTED, HAVING SUSTAINED COSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO THE BOW, POSSIBLY FROM A COLLISION. ALMOST CERTAINLY 'SWAINBY'. (K DENBY, EMAIL DTD 5.9.04). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, INVERTED, BOW DAMAGED

Position: 50 56.844 N,4 41.582 W

 

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