This is the information page about the shipwreck Alacrity, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 9.852 N,5 39.493 W (50.27365, -5.4894666666667)

 

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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.

 

1. Acklington
2. Aida lauro
3. Alacrity
4. Alden gifford (possibly)
5. Alster (possibly)
6. Antwerpen
7. Arbel (probably)
8. Arnside (possibly)
9. Asia
10. Aud
11. Austria (possibly)
12. Balbec
13. Bard (possibly)
14. Besse (probably)
15. Bessemer city (probably)
16. Bill (part of)(possibly)
17. Bill (possibly)
18. Bolette (possibly)
19. Boynton (possibly)
20. Busby
21. Cheerful
22. Chimu
23. Christina
24. Christos markettos
25. City of cardiff
26. City of westminster (& kul)
27. Clan macnab
28. Congener
29. Conqueror
30. Corvus
31. Courtown
32. Dageid
33. Denebola
34. Depois
35. Devon
36. Dunaskin
37. Dundee (probably)
38. Dux (possibly)
39. Emblem
40. Empire flamingo (for'd section)
41. Empire kingsley
42. Enrico parodi
43. Facto
44. Fanny lambert
45. Gallier (possibly)
46. Garthclyde (possibly)
47. Gemini
48. Geopotes viii
49. Glamorgan coast
50. Glendale
51. Gleno
52. Hampshire
53. Helene (probably)
54. Hellopes
55. Hms royalo
56. Hms warspite
57. Hms warspite (part of)
58. Hockwold
59. Holland xix
60. Hopeful (possibly)
61. Iona
62. J duncan
63. Jose de aramburu
64. Joshua nicholson
65. Juan ferrer
66. Juanita
67. Kate thomas (possibly)
68. Kildonan ?
69. Kilmaho
70. Kintuck
71. Lake grafton
72. Lake grafton (possibly)
73. Liberty
74. Lincoln
75. Luna
76. Lutece (part of)(possibly)
77. Luxembourg (probably)
78. Lyminge
79. Madeline
80. Maria de larrinaga
81. Marie roberts
82. Maroc
83. Mervyn (possibly)
84. Moorview
85. Mystique (possibly)
86. Nanna (possibly)
87. New pioneer
88. Nile
89. Noya (possibly)
90. Ocean harvest
91. Orion
92. Oriskany
93. Phoenix 202
94. Phoenix 203
95. Pioneer (possibly)
96. Polesley (possibly)
97. Ponthieu
98. Primo ?
99. Primrose (remains of)(possibly)
100. Regency (probably)
101. Reidar (possibly)
102. Rms mulheim
103. Saint guenole
104. Saxon briton
105. Sea viper
106. Secil japan (bow section)
107. Secil japan (stern section)
108. Setubel(probably)
109. Sirius (possibly)
110. St chamond
111. St george
112. Stabil (possibly)
113. Sten (possibly)
114. Sylvia-mary z-525
115. Thorsa (part of)(possibly)
116. Traute sarnow
117. Tungufoss
118. Tyrhaug
119. U 1209 (possibly)
120. U 247 (possibly)
121. U 399
122. Umbre
123. Underwood
124. Union crystal (possibly)
125. Union star (parts of)(probably)
126. Veghtstroom (possibly)
127. Vesuvius
128. Vigrid (possibly)
129. Vine branch (possibly)
130. Vinovia
131. War baron (probably)
132. Wild boar
133. William cory
134. Yewcroft
135. Zone (probably)

 

Name: ALACRITY

Length 53.7 meter, width: 8.4 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 554 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1940 by goole shipbuilding & repair co ltd, goole. owned by f t everard & sons ltd. 5 cylinder oil engine, single shaft. passage swansea for brussels. ran aground at portheras cove in thick fog. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1963

Water depth above wreck: 0 meter

Known since: 1963, last detected: 1977

Details measurements/cartography: H3963/63 23.10.63 WK ASHORE IN 500949N, 053926W [OGB] IN PORTHERAS COVE 5C E OF PENDEEN LT. (TH, 2.10.63). FOR FILING ONLY. H1282/77/116 4.5.77 DRIES AT LOW TIDE, PARTIALLY COVERED WITH SAND. BOWS STAND 3 OR 4FT HIGH. PART OF THE RIBS ARE VISIBLE AS IS PART OF THE STERN SECTION. (P R JONES, 25.2.77). NCA. 23.4.81 REQUEST BY DUCHY OF CORNWALL & LOCAL COUNCIL TO DISPOSE OF WK AS IT IS A DANGER TO SWIMMERS. NCA. 13.12.11 NOT IN NAVIGABLE AREA. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1157). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 50 9.852 N,5 39.493 W

 

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