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 (52.7959833, 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. Alice taylor
5. Alster
6. Alston
7. Artemisia
8. Asteria
9. Barrhill
10. Bertha
11. Boulderpool (after part)
12. Boulderpool (fwd part)
13. British triumph
14. Camilla weston
15. Cantabria (probably)
16. Cardanel
17. Chevington
18. Clansman (possibly)
19. Continental (possibly)
20. Corchester
21. Cordene
22. Corduff
23. Courier (probably)
24. Cross sand ltv
25. Dashwood
26. David b summers
27. Duncarron
28. Efos
29. Ems
30. English trader
31. Ethel
32. Ethel radcliffe
33. Friesland
34. Fulgens
35. Galatea (possibly)
36. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
37. Gardenia
38. Geneva
39. George fisher
40. Georgia (for'd part)
41. Georgia (stern section)
42. Glen derry (probably)
43. Glynn
44. Granta
45. Hauxley (possibly)
46. Hector gannet
47. Hms agate
48. Hms caroline moller
49. Hms cloughton wyke
50. Hms dhoon (probably)
51. Hms dungeness
52. Hms force
53. Hms francolin
54. Hms glen prosen
55. Hms m a west (probably)
56. Hms tonbridge
57. Hms tranio
58. Hms vortigern
59. Hms washington (probably)
60. Hms william stephen
61. Hmsm c 11
62. Homefire
63. I t l anna b
64. Ilse
65. Ionian (probably)
66. Jessie maersk
67. Jevington court
68. Kenton
69. King egbert
70. La perouse (possibly)
71. Langeli (possibly)
72. Leelite
73. Londoner (probably)
74. Marden
75. Marsworth
76. Montferland
77. Mount ida
78. Murdoch (probably)
79. Nordborg (possibly)
80. Norman queen
81. Oakgrove
82. Ole bull
83. Osprey
84. Otter
85. Oxshott (possibly)
86. Pacific (possibly)
87. Pacific (possibly)
88. Pegrix
89. Polaris
90. Prima
91. Regain
92. Robrix
93. Roine
94. Rose marie
95. Roy
96. Rye
97. Salvus ii
98. Seagull
99. Seaham
100. Sheaf water
101. St mark
102. Teddington
103. Thursonian
104. Trelissick
105. Trevethoe
106. Upminster
107. Vanguard
108. Varoy
109. Viola (possibly)
110. Walkure
111. War valley
112. Welholme (possibly)
113. Whintown (possibly)
114. Willowpool
115. 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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