This is the information page about the shipwreck Tweed (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 10.583 N,5 50.421 W (52.192216666667, -6.1479666666667)

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: TWEED (POSSIBLY)

Length 81.7 meter, width: 11.5 meter, draught: 5.3, tonnage 1777 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1907 by s p austin & sons ltd, liverpool. owned at time of loss by j g hill steam ship co. triple expansion engine of 201 nhp, single shaft. machinery by g clarke ltd, sunderland. passage the clyde for devonport. torpedoed by uc 75. no lives lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 94 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 1980

Details measurements/cartography: M07717 16.3.18 POSN 521100N, 055000W. (AP REPORT KINGSTOWN). INS ON CHARTS. SUNK 15M SSE FROM TUSKAR ROCK. (BMVS 1914-1918). H3058/53 18.5.53 AMEND TO NDWPA. NC 1410. 9.11.77 AMEND TO USCPA 73MTRS. NC 1787. H1950/76 10.11.80 EXAM'D 20.11.79 IN 521035N, 055023W [OGB] USING RO/RO HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 89.5 IN GEN DEPTH 94MTRS. DCS3 HT 4MTRS. NO SCOUR. LYING APPROX N/S, LENGTH APPROX 35MTRS. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 40/80). AMEND WK 89MTRS. BR STD. [WGD] POSN: 5210.583N, 0550.421E.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 10.583 N,5 50.421 W

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