Wreck: Centurion
This is the information page about the shipwreck Centurion, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 9.862 N,2 23.847 W (50.164367, -2.397450)
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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: CENTURION
Length 25.9 meter, width: 6.1 meter, tonnage 146 ton
Cause: ex-sp water lighter vwl3. used for fost gunnery training. presumably sunk by gunfire.
Year of registration: 1976
Water depth above wreck: 59 meter, Height above seabed: 60 cm
Known since: 1976, last detected: 2003
Details measurements/cartography: H4078/76 11.11.76 REPORTED SUNK IN 501000N, 022400W. POSN ACCURACY CONSIDERED NO BETTER THAN +/- 3 CABLES. (QHM PORTLAND, 3.8.76 AND 7.9.76). INS AS USCPA 29FMS.
- NM 2371/76. 7.12.76 AMEND TO USCPA 54MTRS. NC 2454. H4078/76 3.1.77 WK, LEAST DEPTH 29FMS, IN REPORTED POSN. (SUBNAVLANT 132/76). 18.1.80 NOT SHOWN ON FR 878 [DEC 79]. NCA. HH090/533/01 27.5.93 EXAM'D 21.2.93 IN 500951.7N, 022350.8W [WGD] USING HYPERFIX [3 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 54.2 IN GEN DEPTH 59MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 5.5MTRS, LENGTH 40MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. LIES 060/240DEGS, INTACT AND POSSIBLY ON ITS SIDE. SLIGHT MAGNETIC ANOMALY OBSERVED. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 533). AMEND TO WK 54MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/14 7.9.99 DIVED DURING 1999. VESSEL LIES UPSIDE DOWN AND INTACT WITH VERY LITTLE SIGN OF DAMAGE. (N R CHIPCHASE). NCA. H090/961/01 18.12.03 LOCATED, NOT EXAMINED. (GARDLINE, HI 961). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, INVERTED, LITTLE SIGN OF DAMAGE
Position: 50 9.862 N,2 23.847 W
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