This is the information page about the shipwreck Boulderpool (fwd part), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 58.273 N,1 28.511 E (53.050666666667, 1.1718666666667)

 

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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. Aberhill
2. Actuosity (possibly)
3. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
4. Algarve
5. Alice taylor
6. Alster
7. Alston
8. Artemisia
9. Asteria
10. Ayrshire (possibly)
11. Barrhill
12. Bertha
13. Birtley
14. Boulderpool (fwd part)
15. British triumph
16. Camilla weston
17. Cantabria (probably)
18. Clan morrison
19. Clansman (possibly)
20. Continental (possibly)
21. Corchester
22. Corduff
23. Corea
24. Courier (probably)
25. Duncarron
26. Efos
27. Eikhaug
28. Empress
29. Ems
30. Ethel
31. Francois trixier
32. Friesland
33. Fulgens
34. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
35. Gardenia
36. George royle
37. Georgia (for'd part)
38. Georgia (stern section)
39. Granta
40. Hauxley (possibly)
41. Hms agate
42. Hms arley
43. Hms caroline moller
44. Hms cloughton wyke
45. Hms dungeness
46. Hms francolin
47. Hms kylemore
48. Hms nogi
49. Hms solomon
50. Hms vortigern
51. Hms washington (probably)
52. Hms william stephen
53. Hmsm c 11
54. Homefire
55. Hull trader
56. I t l anna b
57. Ilse
58. Jessie maersk
59. Jevington court
60. Kenton
61. Keymun
62. King egbert
63. Lanterna (probably)
64. Leelite
65. Londoner (probably)
66. Marden
67. Marsworth
68. Meriones
69. Minorca
70. Murdoch (probably)
71. Nimrod (probably)
72. Norman queen
73. Oakgrove
74. Ole bull
75. Osprey
76. Ottar jarl
77. Otter
78. Oxshott (possibly)
79. Pacific (possibly)
80. Pacific (possibly)
81. Pegrix
82. Pontfield (forepart)
83. Regain
84. Rimac
85. Rose marie
86. Salvus ii
87. Seagull
88. Seaham
89. Sheaf water
90. Sitona
91. St mark
92. St thomas (possibly)
93. Tayjack 1 (part of)
94. Tayjack 1 (part of)
95. Tayjack 1 (part of)
96. Teddington
97. Thursonian
98. Trajan
99. Traviata (possibly)
100. Trelissick
101. Tyneford
102. Upminster
103. Varoy
104. Vigo
105. Walkure
106. Welholme (possibly)
107. Western mist (possibly)
108. Westland
109. Whintown (possibly)
110. Winhill or whinhill
111. Xanthe
112. Zephyr

 

Name: BOULDERPOOL (FWD PART)

Length 123.4 meter, width: 16.3 meter, draught: 8, tonnage 4805 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built by smith's dock co, middlesbrough. owned at time of loss by pool shipping co ltd. three boilers, triple expansing engine of 508hp, single shaft. passage london for the tyne. torpedoed and sunk by a german e-boat. broke in two. afterpart grounded on the scroby sands.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 21 meter, Height above seabed: 50 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H01048/41 13.6.41 DW IN 525815N, 012836E, OR 244DEGS, 6.25M FROM CROMER LTHO. ONE MAST VISIBLE, HEADING WNW. INS AS DW. - PFNM 1382/41 & NM 1671/41. 1.9.41 TEMPORARILY MARKED BY G CONL BUOY, GPFL(3) G10S, 045DEGS 100YDS FROM WK. (TH, 1.9.41). - TFNM 1383/41. 15.9.41 BUOY NOW G CAN, GPFL(2), G10S CLOSE SW OF WK. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). - TFNM 2085/41 & FNM 2415/41. 8.9.43 LEAST DEPTH OVER WK 5FMS 4FT. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED).

- NM 1902/43. H0148/41 16.11.48 SWEPT BY OROPESA AFTER DISPERSAL. CLEAR AT 46FT IN GEN DEPTH 72FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 64FT IN 525813N, 012840E. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER). AMEND TO WK 7FMS 4FT.

- NM 2540/48. 14.3.73 AMEND TO WKS 13.6MTRS [LAT]. COMBINED WITH WK CLOSE NE. NC 106. HH090/543/01 10.2.92 EXAM'D 28.10.92 IN 525814.8N, 012836E [OGB] USING TRISPONDER. SWEPT CLEAR AT 17.0, FOUL AT 17.2MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 17.0 IN GEN DEPTH 20.5MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 21.5MTRS. APPEARS AS AREA OF BROKEN WRECKAGE. NO SONAR HT OBTAINED. MAGNETOMETER RESPONSE OBTAINED. (NP 1016, HI 543). BR STD. 18.5.15 WK 17.02MTRS IN 5258.273N, 0128.511E [WGD], LENGTH 90MTRS, WIDTH 35MTRS, HT 4.0MTRS, ORIENTATION 115. (BDC EXAMINATION OF CEFAS DS20/DS21). NCA, NFS. SEP 2015/000041896 26.5.15 EXAM'D 16.10.14 IN 5258.273N, 0128.511E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 17.17MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 1MTRS. LENGTH 120MTRS, WIDTH 30MTRS, HT 3.9MTRS. LIES 050/230 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. WELL BROKEN, PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY HI 1427). AMEND DW 17.1MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN, PARTIALLY BURIED.

Position: 52 58.273 N,1 28.511 E

 

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