This is the information page about the shipwreck Corbrook, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 50.32 N,2 7.379 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.

 

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Name: CORBROOK

Length 77.7 meter, width: 11.4 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1159 ton
Load: coal

Cause: Built in 1929 by cowpen dry dock & sb co ltd, blyth, with two boilers, triple expansion engine of 197 nhp, single shaft. machinery by g clark ltd, sunderland. owned at time of loss by cory colliers ltd. passage seaham for london in convoy. sunk by e-boat approximately 30m e of cromer. crew iof 20 rescued. (ll2sl, ll ww2 & sibi).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 30 meter, Height above seabed: 182 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 20181226

Details measurements/cartography: SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 525000N, 020900E, 30M E OF CROMER. (WW2SL, LL WW2, SIBI) H04039/41 12.9.42 POSN 525016N, 020728E. SWEEP CLEARED AT 45FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 68FT. LAYING ON UNEVEN BOTTOM AT 90-105FT. SCOUR 5-15FT ON EITHER SIDE. (FOIC YARMOUTH, 26.8.42). INS AS NDW.

- NM 1972/42. H3730/69 29.5.69 EXAMINED IN 525027N, 020727E [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 73FT IN GEN DEPTH 78FT. SCOUR DEPTH 11FT. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 38/68). AMEND TO WK 12FMS. NE 1504. 20.11.72 SHOWN IN 525020N, 020730E [EUR] ON NETHERLANDS FISHERIES 1954, 7.11.72. 26.3.73 SHOWN AS WK 22MTRS. NC 106. HH090/616/01 21.11.94 EXAMINED 18.6.94 IN 525017.93N, 020729.58E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [3 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 23.2, FOUL 23.5MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 23.4 IN GEN DEPTH 29MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 36MTRS. DCS3 HT 5.0MTRS. LENGTH 59MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. LIES 175/355DEGS. APPEARS WHOLE IN DEEP SCOUR. (GARDLINE, HI 616). AMEND TO WK SW 23MTRS. BR STD. 28.10.04 EUT POSN: 5250.326N, 0207.378E. NE 105. 16.7.10 LOCATED AND DIVED IN LISTED POSN ON 23.6.10. BELL RECOVERED FROM DECK BEARING INSCRIPTION "CORBROOK". (G BUXTON, E-MAIL 15.7.10) IDENTITY AMENDED FROM ARUBA TO CORBROOK, SEE [11127] FOR ARUBA (POSSIBLY). NCA. SEP 2020/000100123 22.5.20 EXAM'D 26.12.18, IN 5250.320N, 0207.379E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 23.05MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 30MTRS, LENGTH 73.4MTRS, WIDTH 14.6MTRS, HEIGHT 7.8MTRS, ORIENTATION 002/182 DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 122MTRS, WIDTH 40MTRS, 5MTRS DEEP, TOWARDS 332 DEGS. (MERITAITO, HI 1580). WRECK LIES ON ITS STARBOARD SIDE. AFT SECTION IN INTACT ALTHOUGH THERE IS A LARGE HOLE IN THE HULL. FORE SECTION HAS BROKEN APART AND LIES TO THE NW. A MAST IS VISIBLE ON THE SEABED TO THE EAST AS WELL AS WHAT COULD BE TWO BOILERS. AMEND DW 23MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 50.32 N,2 7.379 E

 

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