This is the information page about the shipwreck Arthurtown, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 34.213 N,4 57.426 W (50.505016666667, -5.2049666666667)

 

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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. Acadian
2. Alcyon (possibly)
3. Angele (possibly)
4. Anna sophie
5. Antoinette (probably)
6. Arthurtown
7. Bogstad
8. Brava
9. Brisk (probably)
10. Camelot challenger (possibly)
11. Carasa (possibly)
12. Carl
13. Castor 1
14. Cristina
15. Deputie gaston dumesnil (possibly)
16. Diligent
17. Dumfries
18. Elna e
19. Ezra weston (bow section)
20. Ezra weston (stern section)
21. Germaine
22. Girdleness
23. Gregynog
24. Hanover
25. Hemsley 1
26. Hmcs regina
27. Hugin
28. Humbergate (probably)
29. Hunsgrove
30. Island maid
31. John taylor
32. Kai (possibly)
33. Kantoeng (part of)
34. Lake edon
35. Lake owens
36. Lia'g
37. Lisa maria
38. Madryn
39. Marguerite pry
40. Maria asumpta
41. Mefjord (possibly)
42. Milly (possibly)
43. N verberckmoes (possibly)
44. Norma (possibly)
45. Orfordness
46. Par time and tide bell
47. Pearn pride (possibly)
48. Pegasus
49. Portugal
50. Prestige
51. Risoy (probably)
52. Rossmore (possibly)
53. Runswick
54. Saphir
55. Sarah anderson (possibly)
56. Shad thames
57. Siracusa
58. Skopelos sky (after part)
59. Sphene (probably)
60. St joseph
61. St stanislas
62. Svint
63. Tagona
64. Towneley
65. U 1021 (possibly)
66. U 325 (possibly)
67. Ub 65
68. Warnow (possibly)

 

Name: ARTHURTOWN

Length 49.1 meter, width: 8.3 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 527 ton
Load: scrap metal,metal: concentrate and products

Cause: built in 1936 by nv schps gebr van der werf, deest. owned at time of loss by pinch & simpson, london. 6 cylinder oil engine, single shaft. passage southampton for ardrossan. grounded on rocks, backed off and attempted to reach padstow but foundered. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1944

Water depth above wreck: 15 meter, Height above seabed: 128 cm

Known since: 1944, last detected: 2011

Details measurements/cartography: H3193/44 4.12.44 H3193/44 4.12.44 WK IN 503410N, 045730W [OGB], 294.5DEGS, 1600FT FROM STEPPER PT TR DAYMARK. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). CHART AS DW MAST.

- NM 2687/44. H3193/44 22.12.59 H3193/44 22.12.59 MAST NOT VISIBLE AT LOW WATER, 8.9.59. (HMS REDPOLE, HN 9/59). NCA . H3368/66 19.10.66 H3368/66 19.10.66 MAST NO LONGER VISIBLE. (J J GLADSTONE). AMEND DW. BR STD. H1247/69 30.4.69 H1247/69 30.4.69 LOCATED USING BEARING & DISTANCE. STANDS UPRIGHT WITH HOLDS STILL INTACT, COMPLETELY PACKED & SOLID WITH CARGO OF SCRAP IRON. DIESEL ENGINE STILL UPRIGHT IN STERN. STANDS 15 TO 20FT ON SEABED. GEN DEPTH BEING 50-55FT AT LOW WATER. GENERAL LAY BOWS NE STERN SW. (R DAVIS, BODMIN, 22.4.69). NCA. H4463/81 12.11.82 H4463/81 12.11.82 NOT FOUND DURING AREA SWEEP, BUT NOT SEARCHED FOR. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 72). NCA. 26.7.06 26.7.06 [EUT] POSN: 5034.199N, 0457.564W. BA 1168 [3RD EDN, JULY '02]. 24.11.11 24.11.11 LOCATED 12.12.10 IN 5034.213N, 0457.426W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 11.08 IN GEN DEPTH 15.1MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 33.8MTRS, WIDTH 11.6MTRS, HT 4.07MTRS. LIES 128/308 DEGS WITH BOWS ESE. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1157). AMEND WK 11MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, BOWS ESE

Position: 50 34.213 N,4 57.426 W

 

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