This is the information page about the shipwreck Bettann (bow section), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 36.17 N,0 57.401 W (50.4907, -0.9725167)

 

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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. Angry fish
2. Armenier
3. Arno (possibly)
4. Axwell
5. Basil-2
6. Bettann (bow section)
7. Cambrian princess (probably)
8. Carbineer
9. Cuba
10. Donegal (possibly)
11. Elford
12. Flag theofano
13. Fort yale
14. Fpt iv
15. Gartland
16. Gascony
17. Gerarda
18. Germa geisha
19. Hedwig lunstedt
20. Hms apley (possibly)
21. Hms evadne (possibly)
22. Hms hazardous
23. Hms prince leopold
24. Hms sapper
25. Hmsm a1
26. Lightfoot (possibly)
27. Lola (possibly)
28. Lowmount
29. Montecrana (possibly)
30. Polandia (possibly)
31. Rfa hungerford (possibly)
32. Sines (possibly)
33. Spearfish
34. Teelin head
35. U 1195
36. Ub 81

 

Name: BETTANN (BOW SECTION)

Length 46.3 meter, width: 8.5 meter, tonnage 299 ton
Load: clay products

Cause: 19.1.67 reported taking water, anchored in st helen's roads where she eventually sank 19.1.67. during salvage ops was cut into two sections which were raised & towed to be dumped in deep water. stern section, some 45ft long, broke away from tow & sank again. [see 19071].

Year of registration: 1967

Water depth above wreck: 41 meter, Height above seabed: 172 cm

Known since: 1967, last detected: 20161114

Details measurements/cartography: H1262/64 24.1.67 WRECK OF COASTER IN POSN 106.5DEGS, 1.62M FROM HORSE SAND FORT LIGHT [504500N, 010415W APPROX], MARKED BY G CONL LT BUOY QKFLG CLOSE W. (C-IN-C PORTSMOUTH, SIG DTD 19.1.67).

- NM 270/67. H1262/64 6.4.67 ST WK IN AMENDED POSN 504432N, 010148W [OGB], NOW MARKED BY SPH G CLOSE W. (QHM PORTSMOUTH HN 3/67, 14.3.67).

- NM 741/67. H6871/68 18.4.67 SALVAGE OPS IN PROGRESS, R SPH BUOYS LAID E & W OF WRECK. (PL NM 32/68, 16.4.68). H6871/68 11.9.68 RAISING OPS DUE TO START, R SPH BUOYS REMOVED. (PL NM 52/68, 19.8.68). H6871/68 4.12.68 PART OF WRECK MOVED AND LOST. POSN 279.5DEGS, 2.5M NAB TR. (C-IN-C PORTSMOUTH). H6871/68 BUOY NOT THERE. H6871/68 7.11.72 BOW AND HOLD SECTION DUMPED IN SPOIL GROUND S OF THE NAB. (QHM PORTSMOUTH). (STERN SECTION LOST ON PASSAGE TO THE DUMPING GROUND IN 504017N, 010057W). H2979/74 7.12.76 WK LOCATED BY MAGNETOMETER IN 503611N, 005716W [OGB] USING DECCA. FOUND TO BE BOW SECTION OF FAIRLY MODERN VESSEL WITH DIESEL ENGINE ON THE FOREDECK. ABOUT 80FT LONG AND STANDS 25FT HIGH. LIES ACROSS TIDE. TRACES OF WHAT APPEARS TO BE CLAY FOUND IN FOR'D HOLD. (E GILES, SUBSERVS, 13.11.76). H4121/76 19.1.77 EXAM'D 8.8.76 IN 503608N, 005720W [OGB] USING DECCA. LEAST E/S DEPTH 35.2 IN GEN DEPTH 41MTRS. SCOUR 0.5MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 7.5MTRS, LENGTH 6MTRS. REPORTED BY MR R TODD TO BE THE BOWS OF THE 'BETTANN'. (HMS FOX, HI 52/76). CHART AS WK 34MTRS [18FMS] IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. HH091/005/01 27.11.03 EXAM'D 31.7.03 IN 5036.172N, 0057.405W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 34.5, FOUL 34.8MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 34.4 IN GEN DEPTH 41MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 19MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS. DCS3 HT 4.7MTRS. LIES 010/190 DEGS. POOR MAGNETIC ANOMALY. SECTION OF A SMALL WK. (NP 1016, HI 1005). AMEND TO SW 34MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2016/000165703 3.5.17 EXAM'D 14.11.16 IN 5036.170N, 0057.401W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 33.97MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 41MTRS. LENGTH 14MTRS, WIDTH 8.5MTRS, HT 7.95MTRS. ORIENTATION 172/352 DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 15MTRS, 2.0MTRS DEEP TOWARDS 060DEGS. WK LYING ON ITS PORT SIDE. (MMT UK, HI 1499). AMEND TO NDW 33MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ON PORT SIDE

Position: 50 36.17 N,0 57.401 W

 

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