This is the information page about the shipwreck Chevington, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 0.279 N,1 50.32 E (52.7504, 2.0371)

 

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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. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
3. Alice taylor
4. Alster
5. Alston
6. Angele-erika
7. Artemisia
8. Ayrshire (possibly)
9. Barrhill
10. Bertha
11. Blacktoft (possibly)
12. Camilla weston
13. Cantabria (probably)
14. Cardanel
15. Chevington
16. Clansman (possibly)
17. Corbrook
18. Corchester
19. Cordene
20. Corduff
21. Courier (probably)
22. Dashwood
23. Ems
24. English trader
25. Excellenz mehnert
26. Friesland
27. Fulgens
28. Galatea (possibly)
29. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
30. Georgia (for'd part)
31. Glen derry (probably)
32. Goodwood (possibly)
33. Hector gannet
34. Hms agate
35. Hms cantatrice
36. Hms dhoon (probably)
37. Hms dungeness
38. Hms force
39. Hms francolin
40. Hms tranio
41. Hms true accord (probably)
42. Hms washington (probably)
43. Hms william stephen
44. Hmsm c 11
45. I t l anna b
46. Ilse
47. Ionian (probably)
48. Kentwood (probably)
49. La perouse (possibly)
50. Leelite
51. Leopold ii
52. Londoner (probably)
53. Marsworth
54. Meriones
55. Montferland
56. Mount ida
57. Navarra (possibly)
58. Newland (possibly)
59. Norman queen
60. Oakgrove
61. Ole bull
62. Onto
63. Osprey
64. Otter
65. Oxshott (possibly)
66. Pegrix
67. Robrix
68. Roine
69. Rose marie
70. Roy
71. Rye
72. Seagull
73. Seaham
74. Sheaf water
75. Trevethoe
76. Vanilla (probably)
77. Vigo
78. Waldinge
79. Walkure
80. Whintown (possibly)
81. Willowpool
82. Xanthe
83. Yewvalley (possibly)

 

Name: CHEVINGTON

Length 74.7 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1537 ton
Load: cement

Cause: built in ?1923 by furness sb co ltd, haverton-on-tees. owned at time of loss by broomhill steam ships ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 150hp, single shaft. machinery by earl's co ltd, hull. passage london for grangemouth. cargo 2350 tons bagged cement. torpedoed and sunk by e-boat. 7 men lost.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 20 meter, Height above seabed: 165 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 20190222

Details measurements/cartography: H03536/41 6.12.41 SUNK IN 530020N, 015022E WITH FOREMAST SHOWING 9FT AND MAINMAST 7FT [MLWS] ON HEADING 345 DEG. (FOIC YARMOUTH, 13.10.41). INS AS DW.

- NM 2883/41. H03536/41 18.5.44 AMEND TO WK 6FMS.

- NM 1046/44. H03536/41 22.3.47 INS G CON BUOY CLOSE E OF WK. (TH NM 27/47).

- NM 697/47. H03536/41 5.10.48 AMEND TO WK 7FMS 4FT. DELETE BUOY. (TH).

- NM 2129/48. H03536/41 13.3.49 OROPESA SWEEP FOLLOWING DISPERSAL CLEAR AT 46FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 60 IN GEN DEPTH 76FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 9.2.49). H5580/68 12.8.68 EXAM'D 22.11.67 IN 530017N, 015024E [EUR] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 54 IN GEN DEPTH 76FT. SCOUR DEPTH 88FT. LENGTH 180FT. LIES 160/340 DEG. RETAIN CHARTED DEPTH. (HMS MYRMIDON, ROS DTD 22.11.67). AMEND POSN.

- NM 1549/68. HH090/524/01 3.1.92 EXAM'D 10.7.91 IN 530015.1N, 015026.1E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 15.3, FOUL AT 15.6MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 18.0 IN GEN DEPTH 24.2MTRS. SCOUR 2-3MTRS DEEP. LENGTH 60MTRS, WIDTH 13MTRS. LIES 160/340 DEG. (LAND & MARINE, HI 525). SEP 2020/000100123 13.5.20 EXAM'D 22.02.19; IN 5300.279N, 0150.320E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 15.35MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 20MTRS, LENGTH 13.5MTRS, WIDTH 10.7MTRS, HEIGHT 5MTRS, ORIENTATION 165/345 DEGS. WHAT IS LEFT OF THE WRECK IS UPRIGHT AND LYING WITH A LIST TO PORT. SECTION OF HULL VISIBLE, SOME MASTS AND STRUCTURE COLLAPSED TO THE NORTH EASTERN SIDE. (MERITAITO, HI 1580). AMEND DW 15.3MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 0.279 N,1 50.32 E

 

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