This is the information page about the shipwreck Creteblock, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 29.411 N,0 35.968 W (54.4542667, -0.3978333)

 

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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. African transport (probably)
2. Afrique
3. Aigburth
4. Amulet
5. Anboto mendi (possibly)
6. Ard aidhm
7. Ardgantoch
8. Athelstane
9. Athos
10. Audax
11. Balfron (probably)
12. Battersea
13. Beaumanoir (probably)
14. Berwick (possibly)
15. Black prince (possibly)
16. Botha (possibly)
17. Brentwood
18. Bur
19. Cap palos (part of)
20. Castleford (probably)
21. Commercial
22. Constantia
23. Corsican prince
24. Countess of strathmore (possibly)
25. Creteblock
26. Crimdon (possibly)
27. Defiant
28. Disperser
29. Eaglescliffe (probably)
30. Earl percy
31. Eli
32. Ellida (probably)
33. Erich lea
34. Ferruccio
35. Florentia
36. Fred everard
37. Garthwaite
38. Gimle
39. Glengarry (probably)
40. Glow (part of) (possibly)
41. Glow (part of) (possibly)
42. Gwalia (possibly)
43. Harrow (probably)
44. Hartley
45. Helene
46. Hercules
47. Highgate
48. Hms desire (possibly)
49. Hms dromio
50. Hms garmo (probably)
51. Hms locheil
52. Hms lord ridley
53. Hms ruthin castle
54. Hms swallow
55. Hornsund (probably)
56. Hurstwood
57. Jane
58. John miles
59. Lady ann
60. Lady helen
61. Lampada (probably)
62. Lanthorn
63. Lerwick (probably)
64. London
65. Lowtyne (possibly)
66. Lucy
67. Madame renee
68. Marchioness of londonderry
69. Marie stuart
70. Martina
71. Melanie (probably)
72. Membland (possibly)
73. Merrie islington
74. Modemi (possibly)
75. Moorlands
76. Moorwood (possibly)
77. Namorado field jacket
78. Novillo
79. Oakwell
80. Pandora
81. Paul
82. Phare (probably)
83. Philander (probably)
84. Polanna
85. Polruan
86. Quaggy (probably)
87. Rikard nordraak
88. Rutil
89. Saint ninian
90. Sarah thinnesen
91. Schaldis (possibly)
92. Sir francis
93. Skane
94. Sna ii
95. Southborough
96. Springhill
97. Stora-korsnas-link i
98. Sumus (probably)
99. Suntrap (probably)
100. Taurus (probably)
101. Ub 30
102. Ub 41
103. Uc 70
104. Victo (bow section)
105. Victo (stern section)
106. Victoria (probably)
107. Wallsend
108. Woodstock (bow section)
109. Woodstock (stern section)

 

Name: CRETEBLOCK

Length 38.1 meter, width: 8.4 meter, draught: 4.1, tonnage 271 ton

Cause: Built in ?shorham of concrete. ordered as ct35 in 1917. dismantled 1934. after short military career was bought by smith's dock and used as a tug on merseyside unlit 1935 when the company moved whitby. used briefly as a fisherman's store, later made watertight and towed out to be scuttled in deep water. began taking in water and was beached off scaur. (various, via s cant).

Year of registration: 1979

Water depth above wreck: -1 meter, Height above seabed: 146 cm

Known since: 1979, last detected: 2017

Details measurements/cartography: 22.1.79 ST SHOWN IN 542923N, 003551W ON AIR PHOTOGRAPH HYD INDEX NO 1279/171, PRINT 43, DTD 16.5.77. INS AS STF. NE 1612. H6331/87 20.1.89 NOT LOCATED ON DCS3. (LAND & MARINE, HI 414B). NOT APPARENTLY IN SURVEY AREA. NCA. 14.1.92 SHOWN AS ST (DRIES 4.8MTRS) WITH DEBRIS CLOSE SW ON PHOTOPLOT PG 2041 - LP1. (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY DTD 11.3.89) AMEND TO ST (DRIES 4.8MTRS). NE 1612. 28.2.06 [WGD] POSN: 5429.394N, 0035.952W. BA 1612. 1.12.10 NOW BROKEN UP BUT NAME STILL VISIBLE ON BOW. (S CANT, ENGLISH HERITAGE, EMAIL DTD 30.11.10). NCA. SEP 2017/000087052 9.8.17 EXAM'D BY BDC 2017; IN 5429.411N, 0035.968W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH DRIES 3.32MTRS IN GEN DEPTH -1MTRS, LENGTH 13.65MTRS, WIDTH 7.0MTRS, HEIGHT 2.25MTRS, ORIENTATION 146/326 DEGS. WRECK TOO CLOSE INSHORE FOR FULL INVESTIGATION, BOW CAN BE SEEN. NFS. (BGIC CREATED, MMT, HI 1491A). AMEND ST DRIES 3.4MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: NFS

Position: 54 29.411 N,0 35.968 W

 

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