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 (53.0506667, 1.1718667)

 

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