This is the information page about the shipwreck Cordene, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 59.964 N,1 49.148 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. Camilla weston
12. Cantabria (probably)
13. Cardanel
14. Chevington
15. Clansman (possibly)
16. Corbrook
17. Corchester
18. Cordene
19. Corduff
20. Courier (probably)
21. Dashwood
22. Ems
23. English trader
24. Ethel
25. Excellenz mehnert
26. Friesland
27. Fulgens
28. Galatea (possibly)
29. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
30. Gardenia
31. Georgia (for'd part)
32. Glen derry (probably)
33. Hauxley (possibly)
34. Hector gannet
35. Hms agate
36. Hms cantatrice
37. Hms dhoon (probably)
38. Hms dungeness
39. Hms force
40. Hms francolin
41. Hms tranio
42. Hms true accord (probably)
43. Hms washington (probably)
44. Hms william stephen
45. Hmsm c 11
46. I t l anna b
47. Ilse
48. Ionian (probably)
49. Kentwood (probably)
50. King egbert
51. La perouse (possibly)
52. Langeli (possibly)
53. Leelite
54. Leopold ii
55. Londoner (probably)
56. Marsworth
57. Meriones
58. Montferland
59. Mount ida
60. Navarra (possibly)
61. Norman queen
62. Oakgrove
63. Ole bull
64. Osprey
65. Otter
66. Oxshott (possibly)
67. Pegrix
68. Robrix
69. Roine
70. Rose marie
71. Roy
72. Rye
73. Seagull
74. Seaham
75. Sheaf water
76. Trevethoe
77. Vanilla (probably)
78. Vigo
79. Waldinge
80. Walkure
81. Whintown (possibly)
82. Willowpool
83. Xanthe
84. Yewvalley (possibly)

 

Name: CORDENE

Length 86.7 meter, width: 12.8 meter, draught: 5.9, tonnage 2345 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1924 by swan hunter & whigham. onwed at time of loss by cory colliers ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 247hp, single shaft. passage rochester for blyth. in ballast. bombed and sunk by german aircraft.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 27 meter, Height above seabed: 143 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 20190218

Details measurements/cartography: H02775/41 14.10.41 SUNK IN POSN 138 DEG, 2.15 MILES FROM S7 BUOY. LIES ON EVEN KEEL ON HEADING 140 DEG. A MAST SHOWS 8FT ABOVE MLWS. GEN DEPTH 74FT. (FOIC YARMOUTH, 11.8.41). INS AS DW.

- NM 2407/41. 14.10.41 INS G CON, GPFL(3) G 10S. - FNM 2415/41. H02775/41 5.12.41 AMEND BUOY TO G CAN, GPFL(2)G 10S, CLOSE SW.

- NM 2882/41. 22.9.44 AMEND TO WK 6FMS 3FT.

- NM 2041/44. H02775/41 5.10.48 SWEPT USING OROPESA FOLLOWING DISPERSAL. CLEAR AT 46FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 70 IN GEN DEPTH 81FT. POSN 525950N, 014932E. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 26.8.48). AMEND TO WK 7FMS 4FT. DELETE BUOY.

- NM 2129/48. 14.3.73 AMEND TO WK 13.8MTRS [LAT]. NC 106. HH090/254/01 3.1.92 EXAM'D 10.7.91 IN 525955.3N, 014916.8E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 20.0, FOUL AT 20.3MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 20.0 IN GEN DEPTH 26.5MTRS. SCOUR 2MTRS DEEP. DCS3 HT 1.3MTR, LENGTH 110MTRS, WIDTH 4.5MTRS. LIES 148/328 DEG. (LAND & MARINE, HI 531). BR STD. SEP 2020/000100123 21.5.20 EXAM'D 18.02.19; IN 5259.964N, 0149.148E [WGD]. LEAST WCD DEPTH 19.91MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 27MTRS, LENGTH 94.3MTRS, WIDTH 14.9MTRS, HEIGHT 8.9MTRS, ORIENTATION 143/323 DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 5.6MTRS, WIDTH 16.2MTRS, 2MTRS DEEP, TOWARDS 043 DEGS. WRECK IS UPRIGHT WITH LIST TO STARBOARD. CENTRAL PART PF THE WRECK IS INTACT AND THE ENGINE BLOCK AND TOW BOILERS ARE VISIBLE. BOW HAS COLLAPSED AND DISINTEGRATED. STERN HAS BROKEN AWAY AND HAS A STRONG LIST TO STARBOARD. (MERITAITO, HI 1580). AMEND DW 19.9MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 59.964 N,1 49.148 E

 

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