This is the information page about the shipwreck Tangistan, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 17.657 N,0 11.167 W (54.2942833, -0.1861167)

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: TANGISTAN

Length 106.7 meter, width: 14.9 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 3738 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore

Cause: Built in 1906 by william grey & co., hartlepool, with 3 boilers, 3 cylinder triple expansion engine, single shaft. owned at time of loss by strick line, london. torpedoed and sunk by german submarine, possibly u 12. passage benisaf for middlesbrough. only 1 of 39 survived. (ww1sl, dods, sibi)

Year of registration: 1973

Water depth above wreck: 49 meter, Height above seabed: 333 cm

Known since: 1973, last detected: 20160222

Details measurements/cartography: [NO DATE] SANK 9M N OF FLAMBOROUGH HEAD. IN 541405N, 000406W APPROX. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED) H4942/72 19.2.73 WK IN 541723N, 001057W [OGB] USING DECCA. DCS3 LENGTH 125MTRS, HEIGHT 6MTRS. LIES 165/345DEG. (CS PETER FABER). INS AS WK 20FMS.

- NM 537/73. 28.8.73 AMEND TO WK 36MTRS. NC 129. H2534/74 13.12.79 BAD OBSTN (WK) REPD IN 541734N, 001050W. POSN BY DECCA. (KINGFISHER BOOK OF TOWS, VOL.1). HH100/351/06 10.3.93 WK LOCATED IN 541736N, 001107W [OGB] USING RADAR RANGES. (A C JACKSON, 9.2.93). NCA. HH090/730/01 18.11.97 EXAM'D 13.7.97 IN 541738.2N, 001108.7W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 41.0 IN GEN DEPTH 48MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 4.7MTRS. LENGTH 112MTRS, WIDTH 23MTRS. LIES 150/330DEGS. WELL DEFINED, PARTIALLY BROKEN. UPRIGHT. STERN APPEARS TO BE BURIED. (GARDLINE, HI 730). CARGO HATCHES APPEAR TO BE VISIBLE ON DCS3. BR STD. 31.3.09 WRECK IDENTIFIED AS TANGISTAN FROM STRICK LINE CROCKERY, CARGO, MACHINERY DETAILS, SIZE & LENGTH, POSITION OF LOSS AND MANY CORRESPONDING ARTEFACTS. KNOWN LOCALLY AS "BRONZE PROP". (CARL RACEY, E-MAIL DTD 27.3.09) SEP 2016/000007250 07.06.16 EXAM'D 22.02.16 IN 5417.657N, 0011.167W [WGD]. LEAST WCD DEPTH 39.4MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 49MTRS. LENGTH 106.5MTRS, WIDTH 17.9MTRS, HEIGHT 9.6MTRS, ORIENTATION 333/153. SCOUR LENGTH 21.7MTRS, 1.1MTRS DEEP TOWARDS 186 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY, INTACT, COLLAPSED CENTRE TO STERN, SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF DEBRIS SOUTHERN HALF. (EGS, HI 1472). AMEND TO NDW 39MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Mainly intact

Position: 54 17.657 N,0 11.167 W

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