Wreck: Brodfield (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Brodfield, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 54.605 N,6 17.568 W (49.910083, -6.292800)
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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.
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Shipwreck details
Name: BRODFIELD
Length 128.1 meter, width: 16.5 meter, draught: 8.7, tonnage 5685 ton
Load: ballast
Cause: built in 1899 by hawthorn leslie & co. ltd, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at the time of loss by blue star line. wrecked near church point, st mary's. passage le havre for barry. (dods & sibi).
Year of registration: 1974
Water depth above wreck: 6 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm
Known since: 1974, last detected: 2004
Details measurements/cartography: H3227/74 3.1.74 H3227/74 3.1.74 FOUND BY RAF SUB-AQUA CLUB EXPEDITION IN 495434N, 061730W SE OF MAINMARK ROCK. WELL BROKEN UP ON SHALLOW ROCK BOTTOM FROM HWL TO 50FT CONTOUR. BOILERS INTACT. LYING E/W WITH BOWS EAST. NO HAZARD TO NAVIGATION. (RAF HONINGTON SUB-AQUA CLUB EXPEDITION REPORT, 26.11.74). NCA. POSN FOR FILING ONLY. 15.1.82 15.1.82 LIES IN GEN DEPTH 6MTRS. (BSAC WK REGISTER, VOL 4). 2.6.03 2.6.03 RECORD REVIEWED. INS AS FOUL. BR STD. HH100/351/21 29.7.04 HH100/351/21 29.7.04 LOCATED USING MAGNETOMTER & DIVED. END POSNS IN 4954.609N, 0617.598W & 4954.601N, 0617.537W [WGD] USING DGPS, NOT POSSIBLE TO TELL WHICH END IS STERN. 2 VERTICAL BOILERS ARE HIGHEST POINT IN GEN DEPTHS 6-12MTRS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (J ROSEVEARE/G FURSE TELECON 12.7.04) AMEND F TO CENTRAL POSN 4954.605N, 0617.568W. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 49 54.605 N,6 17.568 W
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