This is the information page about the shipwreck Ursa (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 28.197 N,3 0.653 W (50.469950, -3.010883)

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: URSA (PROBABLY)

Length 82.3 meter, width: 11.3 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 1740 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1902 by grangemouth & greenock dockyard co. owned at the time of loss by b ingelsson. passage penarth for rouen. torpedoed by ub-104. (ww1sl, dods & sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 45 meter, Height above seabed: 165 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2015

Details measurements/cartography: H8203/19 SUNK 15M E BY N FROM BERRY HEAD. H6391/19 CHARTED AS WK [OLD SYMBOL] ON BA CHARTS 3315 & 2620. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H2537/28 AMENDED TO DW PA (1917). (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H3971/52 4.7.52 WK IN 502810N, 030030W USING HSA. SWEPT CLEAR AT 19FMS, FOUL AT 20FMS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 121FT IN GEN DEPTH 26FMS. SEABED HARD WITH SAND COVERING. LENGTH 300FT. LIES N/S & IS A GOOD SONAR CONTACT. (HMS SCOTT, SCES, DTD 25.6.52). AMEND TO WK 19FMS. BR STD. H3950/70 21.5.71 NOW CHARTED AS SW 34MTRS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NC 3315. H1310/80 16.12.80 WK IN 502810N, 030030W REPORTED KNOWN LOCALLY AS 'PORTLAND'. BOWS HAVE BLOWN APART & GALLEY IS TOWARDS STERN ON STBD SIDE, WHICH INDICATES HULL & STERN HOUSING ARE VIRTUALLY COMPLETE. (W E BUTLAND, BSAC RECORDS OFFICER, DTD 14.11.80). NCA. H5982/82 12.1.83 WK SHOWN IN 502808N, 030034W USING DECCA. (KINGFISHER CHART K(SW1 & 2. 1982). NCA YET. H2923/83 21.12.84 EXAM'D 26.7.84 IN 502809N, 030035W [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 32.0MTRS, FOUL AT 32.5MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 35.4 IN GENERAL DEPTH 45MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 10MTRS, LENGTH 70MTRS, APPROX. LYING N/S WITH BOWS S AND DETACHED FROM HULL AND LYING TO THE E. (GARDLINE SURVEYS, HI 202). AMEND TO SW 32MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. HH100/351/01 10.10.89 WK IN THIS POSN IS A '3 ISLAND' SS. THIS & ITS LARGE SIZE SEEM TO INDICATE THAT THIS IS NOT THE 'W H DWYER', WHICH HAD HER MACHINERY AFT. (C DAVIES, DTD 19.6.89). NCA. HH100/351/09 29.6.95 THOUGHT TO BE PROBABLY THE WRECK OF THE 'URSA'. (N CHIPCHASE). NCA. SEP 2015/000019320 6.7.15 EXAM'D 12.3.15 LEAST M/B DEPTH 36.28MTRS IN 5028.197N, 0300.653W [WGD], GEN DEPTHS 45MTRS. LENGTH 92.3MTRS, WIDTH 17.7MTRS, HEIGHT 8.8MTRS. ORIENTATION 165/345 DEGS. PARTIALLY INTACT, BOW BROKEN AWAY, LISTS TO PORT. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (MMT, HI 1453). AMEND TO NDW 36MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: PARTIALLY INTACT, BOW BROKEN AWAY, LISTS TO PORT

Position: 50 28.197 N,3 0.653 W

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