This is the information page about the shipwreck Corbet, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 22.666 N,2 58.764 W (53.665666666667, -3.093)
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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.
Name: CORBET
Length 48.8 meter, width: 7.6 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 468 ton
Load: coal
Cause: ex-buteman '15. built in 1909 by scott & sons, bowling. owned at time of loss by a king ltd. one boiler, compound expansion engine, single shaft. passage garston for belfast. bombed and sunk by german aircraft. sank on her side, stern s, forecastle turned back to bridge.
Year of registration: 1941
Water depth above wreck: 0 meter
Known since: 1941, last detected: 2021
Details measurements/cartography: 1942 COMMENCED DISPERSAL. 11.1942 REDUCED TO APPROXIMATELY LEVEL OF SURROUNDING BANK. 12.1942 SWEPT TO A LEAST DEPTH OF 9FT BELOW LBD IN 164DEG 715YDS FROM THE THREE FIXED LTS AT THE EXTREMITY OF THE SOUTH GROYNE, BRUNSWICK. (NO AUTHORITY STATED). 5.3.51 SWEPT TO A LEAST DEPTH OF 11FT BELOW LBD. (NO AUTHORITY STATED). 2.4.51 SOUNDING BY DIVER ON HIGHEST E PART 14FT 4INS BELOW LBD (19FT 6INS ABOVE BOTTOM). SOUNDING BY DIVER ON HIGHEST W PART 24FT 7INS BELOW LBD (3FT ABOVE BOTTOM). (LIVERPOOL WK RECORDS). 22.9.82 WK 2.2MTRS SHOWN IN 532238N, 025841W ON K8022/8. NCA. 13.10.89 WK 2.2MTRS IN 532239N, 025841W IN GENERAL DEPTH OF 1MTR. (MERSEY 21/6). CHART AS FOUL. NE 3490. 17.6.04 SHOWN AS WK (NO DEPTH SPECIFIED) IN GEN DEPTH ON DRYING LINE ON BA 3490 [EDN 5 DTD 20.12.01]. 16.7.14 SHOWN AS FOUL ON BA 3490 [EDN 7 DTD 2.8.14]. SEP 2021/000126174 11.5.21 EXAM’D BY BDC. NOT LOCATED IN M/B DATASET (2021). NFS. (MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR COMPANY SURVEY, 2021). NFA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 53 22.666 N,2 58.764 W