This is the information page about the shipwreck Warsaw, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 10.759 N,3 34.23 W (50.207816666667, -3.7034)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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: WARSAW
Length 64 meter, width: 7.6 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 608 ton
Load: ballast
Cause: built in 1864 by mcnab & co, greenock. owned at time of loss by the leith, hull & hamburg steam packet company. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 90 nhp for 8 knots. machinery by r napier & sons, glasgow. passage st malo for liverpool. torpedoed by ub-31. 17 men lost. (sibi).
Year of registration: 1917
Water depth above wreck: 66 meter, Height above seabed: 75 cm
Known since: 1917, last detected: 2013
Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 4M SE BY E OF START POINT. (DODS). H2502/51 25.1.52 H2502/51 25.1.52 A SMALL WRECK LYING BETWEEN TWO BANKS ON AN UNEVEN BOTTOM AND ONLY PICKED UP WITH DIFFICULTY. DEPTH OVER THE WRECK 31FMS HEIGHT ABOVE SEABED 24FT. CONTACTED BY A/S. (HMS SEAGULL, 1950, E8881). CHART AS WK 31FMS [57MTRS] IN 501045N, 033409W. BR STD. H2061/82 12.9.83 H2061/82 12.9.83 EXAM'D 27.4.83 IN 501044N, 033407W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 61 IN GEN DEPTH 66MTRS. NO SCOUR. GOOD SONAR CONTACT (SIMRAD). (HMS HERALD, HI 132). BR STD. 7.5.13 7.5.13 EXAM'D 16.1.13 IN 5010.759N, 0334.230W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 59.25 IN GEN DEPTH 66MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 63MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS, HT 6MTRS. LIES 075/255 DEGS WITH BOWS ENE. LIES TO PORT. INTACT, APPARENLY DAMAGED ON PORT BOW. (NETSURVEY, HI 1369). AMEND WK 59MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, BOWS ENE, LISTS TO PORT
Position: 50 10.759 N,3 34.23 W