This is the information page about the shipwreck Axwell, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 38.826 N,0 40.672 W (50.6523667, -0.6161833)

 

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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. Afon dulais
2. Alaska
3. Algiers
4. Alison (possibly)
5. Angry fish
6. Ariel
7. Armenier
8. Arno (possibly)
9. Atlas (probably)
10. Axwell
11. Basil-2
12. Bettann (bow section)
13. Cairndhu
14. Cambrian princess (probably)
15. Candia
16. Carbineer
17. City of mexico
18. Cuba
19. Donegal (possibly)
20. Duke of buccleuch
21. Elford
22. Fort yale
23. Fpt iv
24. Frode
25. Gartland
26. Gascony
27. Gerarda
28. Germa geisha
29. Glenlee
30. Hedwig lunstedt
31. Highland corrie
32. Hms apley (possibly)
33. Hms evadne (possibly)
34. Hms hazardous
35. Hms implacable
36. Hms moldavia
37. Hms northcoates
38. Hms pine
39. Hms prince leopold
40. Hms sapper
41. Hms vernon ii (possibly)
42. Hmsm a1
43. Indiana
44. Jaffa
45. Lightfoot (possibly)
46. Lola (possibly)
47. Lowmount
48. Marga
49. Molesey (possibly)
50. Montecrana (possibly)
51. Polandia (possibly)
52. Ramsgarth
53. Ramsholm (possibly)
54. Rfa hungerford (possibly)
55. Saint andre (probably)
56. Shirala
57. Sines (possibly)
58. Spearfish
59. Stavros (possibly)
60. Teelin head
61. U 1195
62. U 86 (formerly)
63. U 86 (possibly)
64. Ub 81
65. Vesuvio (possibly)
66. Vigda
67. War helmet
68. Zaanstroom

 

Name: AXWELL

Length 73.2 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1442 ton
Load: coal

Cause: Built in 1909 by j crown & sons ltd, sunderland. owned at time of loss by broomhill collieries ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 182nhp, single shaft. passage warkworth for rouen. cargo coal. torpedoed and sunk by german submarine. (ll ww1 & sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 45 meter, Height above seabed: 48 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 20180210

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 3 MILES WSW FROM OWERS LTV. (WW1SL). H2318/74 18.3.74 WK LOCATED 000DEGS OWERS LIGHT BUOY 1.5M. BOWS 25DEGS. (HMS NURTON, HN). H2318/74 8.4.74 CONFIRMED POSN AS 000DEGS, 1.5M FROM OWERS LIGHT BUOY. (HMS NURTON, 21.3.74). CHART AS DW IN 503847N, 004035W.

- NM 807/74. H2318/74 2.9.75 WK EXAM'D 3.7.75 IN 503848N, 004035W [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 35.9MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 45.9MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 47.9MTRS. THOUGHT TO BE PROBABLY THE COLLIER 'AXWELL'. THIS WK IS APPROX 65MTRS IN LENGTH, LYING 050/230DEGS. (SCES, HI 62/75). AMEND TO WK 36MTRS [19FMS] IN REVISED POSN.

- NM BLOCK 980/76. H1285/76 14.6.76 MR P J SMITH HAS APPLIED ON BEHALF OF NEWHAM SUB-AQUA CLUB FOR EXPLOSIVES CERTIFICATE TO CARRY OUT SALVAGE WORK ON THE 'AXWELL'. (MET. POLICE OFFICE, 10.6.76).H2979/74 7.12.76 WK FIXED IN 503846.86N, 004034.45W [OGB] USING DECCA. IDENTIFIED AS 'AXWELL' BY THE SHIP'S BELL. UPRIGHT, LYING 050/230DEGS WITH BOWS TO EAST. HIGHEST POINT IS THE BRIDGE AT ABOUT 30FT. (E GILES, SUBSERVS, 13.11.76). NCA. H1310/84/6 9.3.84 STANDS UPRIGHT IN A DEPRESSION IN SEABED IN GEN DEPTH 50 TO 52MTRS (MLW). IN FAIRLY GOOD CONDITION. (M J BURPITT, 28.2.84). HH091/003/01 30.9.03 EXAM'D 13.6.03 IN 5038.812N, 0040.686W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 37.5, FOUL 37.8MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 39.1 IN GEN DEPTH 46MTRS. SCOUR 4MTRS DEEP EXTENDS 40MTRS TOWARDS 160 DEGS. LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. DCS3 HT 7MTRS. LIES 050/230 DEGS WITH BOWS TOWARDS 050 DEGS. POOR MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT AND UPRIGHT. UPPERDECK DETAIL NOTED ON DCS3. (NP 1016, HI 1003A). AMEND TO SW 37MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2018/000198963 13.08.18 EXAM'D 10.02.18; IN 5038.826N, 0040.672W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 38MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 45MTRS, LENGTH 76MTRS, WIDTH 19MTRS, HEIGHT 7.5MTRS, ORIENTATION 048/228 DEGS. LISTS TO PORT. PARTLY BROKEN UP, WITH THE HULL OVER THE NE END, (PRESUMED TO BE THE BOW), OPENED OUT. THE STERN HULL IS MORE INTACT BUT HAS DECAYED TO REVEAL THE CARGO HOLDS. BOILERS VISIBLE IN MIDSHIPS. TOWARDS THE BOW &STERN, STAND THE REMAINS OF TWO MASTS. (MMT, HI 1498). AMEND NDW 38MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: LISTS TO PORT, PARTLY BROKEN UP, BOW NE.

Position: 50 38.826 N,0 40.672 W

 

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