This is the information page about the shipwreck Warilda, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 12.795 N,0 16.503 W (50.21325, -0.27505)

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: WARILDA

Length 125.6 meter, width: 17.4 meter, draught: 10.4, tonnage 7713 ton

Cause: Built in 1912 by w beardmore & co. owned at the time of loss by adelaide steamship co. was returning from le havre with 700 wounded servicemen onboard when it was torpedoed and sunk by uc 49. 123 lives lost.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 47 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: TORPEDOED AND SUNK 32M SSW OF OWERS LTV. (WW1SL). H03737/44 10.11.44 WK IN 501200N, 001500W. GAVE OFF OIL. (PORTSMOUTH LIST PASI 22.3.45). CHART AS NDWPA. BR STD. 14.8.74 NOW CHARTED AS USC PA 28MTRS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NC 2450. H1270/77 12.5.81 NOW CHARTED AS NDW PA. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H2745/75 13.9.82 EXAM'D 1982 IN 501253N, 001621W [EUR] USING TORAN. LEAST E/S DEPTH 34.7 IN GEN DEPTH 48-49MTRS, HT ABOVE SEABED 13.7MTRS. (FRENCH WK NO.18100039, AMENDMENT 25.05.82). SUBNAVLANT ISSUED. [OGB] POSN: 501247.5N, 001620.5W. BR STD. 1.10.90 WK 34MTRS SHOWN IN 501248N, 001624W ON FR 6857 [1986 EDN]. UNKNOWN IN 501252.5N, 001621.5W [+/-20MTRS]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 34.7 IN GEN DEPTH 48MTRS. HT 13.7MTRS ABOVE SEABED. (FR WK NO.18100039). OGB POSN: 501247N, 001621W. BR STD. HH100/351/06 16.10.92 WK IN 501253N, 001626.5W POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS THE 'WARILDA'. STANDS 35-40FT HIGH IN GEN DEPTH 53MTRS WITH A TRAWL NET, WITH FLOATS, SNAGGED ON TOP OF THE WK MAKING IT APPEAR SHOALER THAN IT IS. LIES SE/NW. (T LEE, 27.9.92). NCA. 18.6.07 LIES IN 5012.821N, 0016.439W [WGD]. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 2007). BR STD. 8.4.14 EXAM'D 17.2.14 IN 5012.795N, 0016.503W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 36.17 IN GEN DEPTH 47MTRS. SCOUR 2MTRS DEEP. LENGTH 126MTRS, WIDTH 28MTRS, HT 10.83MTRS. LIES 045/225 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT. (NETSURVEY, HI 1430). INTACT, PROBABLY WITH LARGE PORT LIST. BOWS NE. LARGE NET OVER SW END. AMEND WK 36MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, ON PORT SIDE, BOWS NE, LARGE NET AT STERN

Position: 50 12.795 N,0 16.503 W

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