This is the information page about the shipwreck Chelford, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 46.852 N,5 3.481 W (52.94205, -5.09135)

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: CHELFORD

Length 100.7 meter, width: 14 meter, draught: 6.6, tonnage 2995 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built of steel in 1906 by w gray & co, west hartlepool. owned at time of loss by f yeoman. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 280hp, single shaft. machinery by central marine engineering works, hartelepool. passage cardiff for barry roads. in ballast. no lives lost.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 80 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 1981

Details measurements/cartography: H8203/19 SUNK 10 MILES NW BY W FROM BARDSEY ISLAND. INS ON CHARTS. AMEND TO NDWPA ON 1411. (DATE NOT KNOWN). 27.10.72 AMEND TO USCPA 55MTRS. NC 1971. H1935/80 14.5.82 EXAM'D 14.5.81 IN 524650N, 050325W [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 70 IN GEN DEPTH 80MTRS. SCOUR 81MTRS. DCS3 HT OF APPARENT MAST 13.8MTRS. LYING UPRIGHT & INTACT. LENGTH 120MTRS. (HMS FAWN, HI 3). INS AS WK 66MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT & UPRIGHT, PROBABLE MAST

Position: 52 46.852 N,5 3.481 W

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