This is the information page about the shipwreck Vasco, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 39.554 N,0 1.975 E (50.577250, -0.082600)

 

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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.

 

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79. Ub 86 (possibly)
80. Vasco
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82. Wilhelmina j
83. Zeester (possibly)

 

Name: VASCO

Length 85.3 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 1914 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: vessel, built in 1895 by furness, withy & co. and owned at the time of loss by t wilson, sons & co., struck a mine and sunk 10m w by s of beachy head while on passage hull to naples. 17 lives lost including the captain. (ll ww1 & dods).

Year of registration: 1976

Water depth above wreck: 32 meter, Height above seabed: 125 cm

Known since: 1976, last detected: 20151123

Details measurements/cartography: SANK 10M W BY S FROM BEACHY HEAD. (DODS). H4121/76 14.7.76 LOCATED 15.6.76 IN 503932N, 000202E [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 28 IN GEN DEPTH 30MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 43MTRS. DCS3 INDICATES LARGE WK, LENGTH 91MTRS, SITTING UPRIGHT IN DEEP SCOUR AND PROJECTING LITTLE ABOVE SEABED. ORIENTATION 120/300DEGS. (HMS ECHO, 15.6.76). CHART AS WK 28MTRS.

- NM 1546/76. H1965/76 28.11.80 EXAM'D 24.4.80 IN 503931N, 000200E [OGB] USING TRISPONDER. LEAST E/S DEPTH 28.6MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 32MTRS. SCOUR 3MTRS DEEP. HYDROSEARCH LENGTH 76.7MTRS, BEAM 12MTRS, HT 4.9MTRS. LYING, IN AREA OF SANDWAVES, 135/315DEGS, BOWS SE. HAS 3 HOLDS, DECKHOUSE AFT. (HMS BULLDOG HI 37A/77). NCA. H1310/84/32 6.9.84 DIVED ON 1984. INTACT & UPRIGHT LYING NW/SE, STERN NW. WHEELHOUSE, ETC, AMIDSHIPS, HOLDS FORE & AFT. BOW DISAPPEARS INTO SAND AT SEABED LEVEL. VERY DEEP SCOUR ON PORT [NE] SIDE. MIDSHIPS STRUCTURE ABOUT 4MTRS HIGH. GUN MISSING FROM STERN. SHELL CASES, DTD 1911 & 1914 LIE NEARBY. CHINA, INSCRIBED 'THOS. WILSON & CO LTD, HULL' & 'WILSON LINE' FOUND. ALMOST CERTAINLY THE 'VASCO'. (T W BENNETTO, 4.9.84). NCA. H1310/86/29 18.11.86 DIVED 1985/86. BOW & STERN ARE MORE SILTED UP, AND ALMOST COVERED. CENTRE SUPERSTRUCTURE STILL STANDS 5MTRS ABOVE SEABED. DEEP SCOUR, DEPTH 47 MTRS, ALONG PORT SIDE & LOOKS LIKELY THAT WK WILL EVENTUALLY ROLL INTO IT. (T W BENNETTO, 28.10.86). H1310/88/30 29.6.88 KNOWN LOCALLY AS THE 'GULLY WK'. LIES IN DEEP SCOUR APPROX WNW/ESE WITH STERN TO W. LEAST DEPTH AT LW 30 IN GEN DEPTH 32MTRS - SCOUR 42MTRS. COUNTER STERN. APPROX 250FT LONG, 2500TONS. CARRIED COAL. HULL INTACT EXCEPT FOR BOW. HOLDS MAINLY SILTED UP. MARINE GROWTH INDICATES WK HAS PROBABLY BEEN COMPLETELY BURIED AT TIMES. (P A VAN DER BOON). HH100/351/04 12.11.91 BELL RECOVERED IN 1990. CONFIRMED THE 'VASCO'. (T W BENNETTO, 2.11.91). SEP 2015/000083467 5.5.16 EXAM'D 23.11.15; IN 5039.554N, 0001.975E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 28.34MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 32MTRS. SCOUR 440MTRS, LENGTH 79.5MTRS, WIDTH 19.5MTRS, HT 3.6MTRS, ORIENTATION 125/305. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. VESSEL PART BURIED. (GARDLINE 2015, HI 1478). AMEND DW 28MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, INTACT, BOW SW, PARTIALLY BURIED

Position: 50 39.554 N,0 1.975 E

 

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