This is the information page about the shipwreck Corchester, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 55.927 N,1 34.361 E (52.7959833, 1.6965)

 

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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. Actuosity (possibly)
3. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
4. Algarve
5. Alice taylor
6. Alster
7. Alston
8. Angele-erika
9. Artemisia
10. Asteria
11. Barrhill
12. Bertha
13. Birtley
14. Boulderpool (after part)
15. Boulderpool (fwd part)
16. British triumph
17. Camilla weston
18. Cantabria (probably)
19. Cardanel
20. Chevington
21. Clan morrison
22. Clansman (possibly)
23. Continental (possibly)
24. Corchester
25. Cordene
26. Corduff
27. Courier (probably)
28. Duncarron
29. Efos
30. Eikhaug
31. Empress
32. Ems
33. Ethel
34. Friesland
35. Fulgens
36. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
37. Gardenia
38. George fisher
39. Georgia (for'd part)
40. Georgia (stern section)
41. Glen derry (probably)
42. Granta
43. Hauxley (possibly)
44. Hector gannet
45. Hms agate
46. Hms caroline moller
47. Hms cloughton wyke
48. Hms dhoon (probably)
49. Hms dungeness
50. Hms force
51. Hms francolin
52. Hms vortigern
53. Hms washington (probably)
54. Hms william stephen
55. Hmsm c 11
56. Homefire
57. I t l anna b
58. Ilse
59. Jessie maersk
60. Jevington court
61. Kenton
62. Keymun
63. King egbert
64. La perouse (possibly)
65. Lanterna (probably)
66. Leelite
67. Londoner (probably)
68. Marden
69. Marsworth
70. Minorca
71. Montferland
72. Murdoch (probably)
73. Norman queen
74. Oakgrove
75. Ole bull
76. Osprey
77. Otter
78. Oxshott (possibly)
79. Pacific (possibly)
80. Pacific (possibly)
81. Pegrix
82. Prima
83. Regain
84. Rimac
85. Roine
86. Rose marie
87. Roy
88. Salvus ii
89. Seagull
90. Seaham
91. Sheaf water
92. St mark
93. Teddington
94. Thursonian
95. Traviata (possibly)
96. Trelissick
97. Tyneford
98. Upminster
99. Varoy
100. Viola (possibly)
101. Walkure
102. War valley
103. Welholme (possibly)
104. Western mist (possibly)
105. Westland
106. Whintown (possibly)
107. Willowpool
108. Winhill or whinhill
109. Xanthe

 

Name: CORCHESTER

Length 86.9 meter, width: 12.8 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 2374 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Built in 1927. two boilers, triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage thames for hartlepool. collided with ss city of sydney after failing to give way during a snowstorm. bow section fell away. later sank.

Year of registration: 1956

Water depth above wreck: 22 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1956, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H1569/56 10.3.56 SUNK 525603N, 013430E. (LL 19.2.56, TH NM 21.2.56, HUMBER RADIO 19.2.56). INS AS DW WITH G CAN LT BUOY, GP FL (2), 10 SEC.

- NM 584/56. 18.1.63 DISPERSED 47 FT AND LT BUOY WITHDRAWN. (TH 7.12.62). AMEND TO WK 7FMS 5FT. DELETE LT BUOY.

- NM 130/63. 14.3.73 AMEND TO WK 13.7MTRS [LAT]. NC 106. H1952/80 26.1.83 EXAM'D 20.7.82 IN 525554N, 013429E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 15.4, FOUL AT 15.7MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 16.2 IN GEN DEPTH 22MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 25.5MTRS. DCS3 HT 6MTRS, LENGTH 75MTRS APPROX. LYING NE/SW. POSSIBLY BREAKING UP. (SOISS, HI 22, WK 52).

- NM 708/83 SEP 2015/000041896 22.5.15 EXAM'D 5.10.14 IN 5255.927N, 0134.361E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 17.38MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 5MTRS, EXTENDS 70MTRS TOWARDS 300 DEGREES. LENGTH 85MTRS, WIDTH 14.5MTRS, HT 6.5MTRS. LIES 000/180 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. BROKEN UP, PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY HI1427). AMEND DW 17.3MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN AND PARTIALLY BURIED.

Position: 52 55.927 N,1 34.361 E

 

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