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