This is the information page about the shipwreck Corduff, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 52.369 N,1 40.017 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. Alice taylor
5. Alster
6. Alston
7. Artemisia
8. Asteria
9. Ayrshire (possibly)
10. Barrhill
11. Bertha
12. Boulderpool (after part)
13. Boulderpool (fwd part)
14. British triumph
15. Camilla weston
16. Cantabria (probably)
17. Cardanel
18. Chevington
19. Clansman (possibly)
20. Continental (possibly)
21. Corchester
22. Cordene
23. Corduff
24. Courier (probably)
25. Cross sand ltv
26. Daisy (possibly)
27. Dashwood
28. David b summers
29. Duncarron
30. Efos
31. Ems
32. English trader
33. Ethel
34. Ethel radcliffe
35. Friesland
36. Fulgens
37. Galatea (possibly)
38. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
39. Gardenia
40. Geneva
41. George fisher
42. Georgia (for'd part)
43. Georgia (stern section)
44. Glen derry (probably)
45. Glynn
46. Granta
47. Hauxley (possibly)
48. Hector gannet
49. Hms agate
50. Hms cantatrice
51. Hms caroline moller
52. Hms cloughton wyke
53. Hms dhoon (probably)
54. Hms dungeness
55. Hms force
56. Hms francolin
57. Hms glen prosen
58. Hms m a west (probably)
59. Hms nogi
60. Hms tonbridge
61. Hms tranio
62. Hms vortigern
63. Hms washington (probably)
64. Hms william stephen
65. Hmsm c 11
66. Homefire
67. I t l anna b
68. Ilse
69. Ionian (probably)
70. Jessie maersk
71. Jevington court
72. Kenton
73. King egbert
74. La perouse (possibly)
75. Langeli (possibly)
76. Leelite
77. Londoner (probably)
78. Marden
79. Marsworth
80. Meriones
81. Montferland
82. Mount ida
83. Murdoch (probably)
84. Nordborg (possibly)
85. Norman queen
86. Oakgrove
87. Ole bull
88. Osprey
89. Otter
90. Oxshott (possibly)
91. Pacific (possibly)
92. Pacific (possibly)
93. Pegrix
94. Polaris
95. Prima
96. Regain
97. Robrix
98. Roine
99. Rose marie
100. Roy
101. Rye
102. Salvus ii
103. Seagull
104. Seaham
105. Sheaf water
106. Sir william stephenson
107. St mark
108. Teddington
109. Thursonian
110. Trelissick
111. Trevethoe
112. Upminster
113. Vanguard
114. Varoy
115. Vigo
116. Viola (possibly)
117. Walkure
118. War valley
119. Welholme (possibly)
120. Whintown (possibly)
121. Willowpool
122. Xanthe

 

Name: CORDUFF

Length 86.6 meter, width: 12.8 meter, draught: 6.7, tonnage 2345 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: vessel, built 1923 by swan, hunter & wigham richardson, was torpedoed & sunk by a german motor torpedo boat near cromer. sank with the loss of 7 men, 2 taken prisoner. owned at the time of loss by cory colliers. (dods).

Year of registration: 1945

Water depth above wreck: 36 meter, Height above seabed: 130 cm

Known since: 1945, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H03210/45 5.1.46 WK IN 525200N, 014000E. (C IN C NORE, 15.6.45). 19.12.50 WK LOCATED IN 525218N, 014006E. LEAST DEPTH 12FMS BY E/S. (HMS SHARPSHOOOTER, TRACING 1950). LC 1089. 14.3.73 CHART AS WK 21.7MTRS [LAT]. NC 106. H1952/80 24.1.83 LOCATED IN 525220N, 014007E USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. EXAM'D 3.6.81, LEAST DEPTH 21.8MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 34MTRS BY E/S. SCOUR DEPTH 2MTRS. DCS3 HT 12.8MTRS APPROX. APPARENTLY INTACT, LYING NW/SE. APPROX 100MTRS LONG. (SOISS, HI 22, WK 26). NEEDS TO BE WIRE SWEPT, CHART AS WK 21.5MTRS IN 525220N, 014007E. BR STD. HH100/351/03 24.9.90 POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS WK OF 'CORDUFF' FROM CROCKERY STATING NAME OF OWNERS, CORY COAL CO, AND DRAWINGS OBTAINED FROM SWAN HUNTER, THE BUILDER. THE BELL ALSO REP'D TO HAVE BEEN FOUND. LIES AS DESCRIBED IN SURVEY DETAILS, WITH BOWS N. THERE IS A SPLIT ACROSS THE SHIP, SEPARATING THE STERN SLIGHTLY FROM THE FORWARD PART. (K BALDING, 13.9.90). HH242/550/04 1.12.93 LOCATED IN 525220.4N, 014007.1E USING SYLEDIS [4 LOP]. EXAM'D 15.7.93. SWEPT CLEAR AT 21.8MTRS, FOUL AT 22.1MTRS. LEAST DEPTH 22.6MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 34MTRS BY E/S. SCOUR 1.8MTRS DEEP EXTENDS 30MTRS TOWARDS 040 DEGS. DCS3 HT 11.5MTRS, LENGTH 85MTRS, BREADTH 15MTRS. CLEARLY DEFINED INTACT WK LYING 130/310 DEGS. (OCEONICS (UK) LTD, HI 22). AMEND TO WK SW 21.5MTRS IN 525220.5N, 014007E. BR STD. SEP 2015/000041896 22.5.15 EXAM'D 16.10.14 IN 5252.369N, 0140.017E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 26.2MTRS. LENGTH 90MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS, HT 9MTRS, ORIENTATION 130/310 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT AND UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY HI 1427). AMEND DW 26.0MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT AND UPRIGHT

Position: 52 52.369 N,1 40.017 E

 

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