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 (52.795983333333, 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. Ayrshire (possibly)
12. Barrhill
13. Bertha
14. Birtley
15. Boulderpool (after part)
16. Boulderpool (fwd part)
17. British triumph
18. Camilla weston
19. Cantabria (probably)
20. Cardanel
21. Chevington
22. Clan morrison
23. Clansman (possibly)
24. Continental (possibly)
25. Corchester
26. Cordene
27. Corduff
28. Corea
29. Courier (probably)
30. Duncarron
31. Efos
32. Eikhaug
33. Empress
34. Ems
35. Ethel
36. Friesland
37. Fulgens
38. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
39. Gardenia
40. George fisher
41. Georgia (for'd part)
42. Georgia (stern section)
43. Glen derry (probably)
44. Granta
45. Hauxley (possibly)
46. Hector gannet
47. Hms agate
48. Hms cantatrice
49. Hms caroline moller
50. Hms cloughton wyke
51. Hms dhoon (probably)
52. Hms dungeness
53. Hms force
54. Hms francolin
55. Hms nogi
56. Hms vortigern
57. Hms washington (probably)
58. Hms william stephen
59. Hmsm c 11
60. Homefire
61. I t l anna b
62. Ilse
63. Jessie maersk
64. Jevington court
65. Kenton
66. Keymun
67. King egbert
68. La perouse (possibly)
69. Lanterna (probably)
70. Leelite
71. Londoner (probably)
72. Marden
73. Marsworth
74. Meriones
75. Minorca
76. Montferland
77. Murdoch (probably)
78. Norman queen
79. Oakgrove
80. Ole bull
81. Osprey
82. Otter
83. Oxshott (possibly)
84. Pacific (possibly)
85. Pacific (possibly)
86. Pegrix
87. Prima
88. Regain
89. Rimac
90. Roine
91. Rose marie
92. Roy
93. Salvus ii
94. Seagull
95. Seaham
96. Sheaf water
97. St mark
98. Tayjack 1 (part of)
99. Teddington
100. Thursonian
101. Traviata (possibly)
102. Trelissick
103. Tyneford
104. Upminster
105. Varoy
106. Vigo
107. Viola (possibly)
108. Walkure
109. War valley
110. Welholme (possibly)
111. Western mist (possibly)
112. Westland
113. Whintown (possibly)
114. Willowpool
115. Winhill or whinhill
116. 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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