This is the information page about the shipwreck Broadhurst (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 35.819 N,0 13.986 W (50.5969833, -0.2331)

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.

Name: BROADHURST (PROBABLY)

Length 66.1 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 4, tonnage 1013 ton
Load: coal

Cause: Steel hull. one boiler, triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage seaham for shoreham-by-sea. torpedoed by e-boat 14m s by w of shoreham. 4 men lost. (ll ww1 & sibi).

Year of registration: 1975

Water depth above wreck: 50 meter, Height above seabed: 120 cm

Known since: 1975, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H1965/76 6.7.79 POSSIBLE WK LOCATED IN 503547N, 001353W [OGB]. GOOD DCS3 CONTACT. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 37A/77). WK LOCATED 27.6.75 IN 503549N, 001336W [OGB] USING HI-FIX [2 LOP]. IN GEN DEPTH 50MTRS. (HMS FAWN, HI 41/75). CHART AS NDW IN HMS BULLDOG'S POSN. BR STD. H1965/76 11.12.79 CONFIRMED WK IN 503547.7N, 001353.5W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 48MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 55MTRS. DCS3 HT 3.6MTRS, LENGTH 22MTRS, BEAM 9.6MTRS. ON ONE PASS POSSIBLE LEAST HT OF 45.2MTRS WAS OBTAINED, BUT NO EVIDENCE OF MAST ON DCS3 TRACE & THIS HIGH POINT MORE LIKELY TO BE DISTURBED WATER. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 37A/77). CHART AS WK 45MTRS. BR STD. H1965/76 26.11.80 EXAM'D 17.5.80 IN 503547N, 001354W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER. LEAST E/S DEPTH 49.7 IN GEN DEPTH 53MTRS. DEPTH OF SCOUR 0.5MTR. HYDROSEARCH LENGTH 45.3MTRS, BEAM 7.3MTRS, HT 5.3MTRS. LYING 135/315DEGS, BOWS SE. PARTIALLY BURIED AND BROKEN UP. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 37A/77). POSSIBLY TWO WKS CLOSE TOGETHER AS THE TWO REPORTS FROM HMS BULLDOG DIFFER SIGNIFICANTLY. NCA. 24.4.14 EXAM'D 21.1.14 IN 5035.819N, 0013.986W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 49.24 IN GEN DEPTH 50.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 37.8MTRS, WIDTH 13.1MTRS, HT 1.26MTRS. LIES 120/300 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. WELL BURIED IN A SANDWAVY AND DIFFICULT TO DISTINGUISH A WRECK-LIKE SHAPE. (NETSURVEY, HI 1435). ALMOST BURIED. AMEND WK 49MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ALMOST BURIED, NO CLEAR WK SHAPE

Position: 50 35.819 N,0 13.986 W

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