This is the information page about the shipwreck Devon, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 7.151 N,5 43.38 W (50.27365, -5.4894666666667)

 

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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. Acklington
2. Aida lauro
3. Alacrity
4. Alden gifford (possibly)
5. Alster (possibly)
6. Antwerpen
7. Arbel (probably)
8. Arnside (possibly)
9. Asia
10. Aurelien
11. Austria (possibly)
12. Balbec
13. Besse (probably)
14. Bessemer city (probably)
15. Bill (part of)(possibly)
16. Bill (possibly)
17. Boynton (possibly)
18. Busby
19. Cato
20. Cheerful
21. Chimu
22. Christina
23. Christos markettos
24. City of cardiff
25. City of westminster (& kul)
26. Clan macnab
27. Congener
28. Conqueror
29. Courtown
30. Dageid
31. Denebola
32. Depois
33. Devon
34. Dunaskin
35. Dundee (probably)
36. Dux (possibly)
37. Emblem
38. Empire flamingo (for'd section)
39. Empire kingsley
40. Enrico parodi
41. Facto
42. Fanny lambert
43. Gallier (possibly)
44. Garthclyde (possibly)
45. Gemini
46. Geopotes viii
47. Glamorgan coast
48. Glendale
49. Gleno
50. Hampshire
51. Helene (probably)
52. Hellopes
53. Hms royalo
54. Hms warspite
55. Hms warspite (part of)
56. Holland xix
57. Hopeful (possibly)
58. Iona
59. J duncan
60. Jose de aramburu
61. Joshua nicholson
62. Juan ferrer
63. Juanita
64. Kate thomas (possibly)
65. Kildonan ?
66. Kilmaho
67. Kintuck
68. Lake grafton
69. Lake grafton (possibly)
70. Liberty
71. Lincoln
72. Luna
73. Lutece (part of)(possibly)
74. Luxembourg (probably)
75. Lyminge
76. Madeline
77. Maria de larrinaga
78. Marie roberts
79. Maroc
80. Moorview
81. Mystique (possibly)
82. Nanna (possibly)
83. New pioneer
84. Nile
85. Ocean harvest
86. Orion
87. Oriskany
88. Phoenix 202
89. Phoenix 203
90. Pioneer (possibly)
91. Polesley (possibly)
92. Ponthieu
93. Primo ?
94. Primrose (remains of)(possibly)
95. Regency (probably)
96. Reidar (possibly)
97. Rms mulheim
98. Saint guenole
99. Saxon briton
100. Sea viper
101. Setubel(probably)
102. Sirius (possibly)
103. St chamond
104. Stabil (possibly)
105. Sten (possibly)
106. Sylvia-mary z-525
107. Thorsa (part of)(possibly)
108. Traute sarnow
109. Tungufoss
110. Tyrhaug
111. U 1209 (possibly)
112. U 247 (possibly)
113. Umbre
114. Underwood
115. Union crystal (possibly)
116. Union star (parts of)(probably)
117. Veghtstroom (possibly)
118. Vine branch (possibly)
119. Vinovia
120. Wild boar
121. William cory
122. Yewcroft
123. Zone (probably)

 

Name: DEVON

Length 26.8 meter, width: 6 meter, draught: 3.1, tonnage 154 ton
Load: ballast,general and mixed goods,ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,foodstuffs: liquid

Cause: built in 1833 in chatham. a devonport dockyard lighter. also known as devonport yc 4. passage plymouth for pembroke & cork. mistook the two 'bisons' for sails and drove ashore. 17 lives lost.

Year of registration: 1868

Water depth above wreck: 2 meter

Known since: 1868, last detected: 2001

Details measurements/cartography: 26.2.90 26.2.90 WK REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN LOCATED OFF 'THE BRISONS' IN 500715N, 054330W. APPLICATION MADE TO PURCHASE. (D WILSON, D OF CONTRACTS, ENSLEIGH, TELECON 23.2.90). POSN FOR FILING ONLY. 5.3.01 5.3.01 LIES IN 5007.151N, 0543.380W [WGD]. INGOTS OF LEAD BALLAST, BRASS ROWLOCKS AND COPPER PINS NOTED. (K HEATH, TELECON 5.3.01). NCA. STS. 6,.1.12 NOT WITHIN NAVIGABLE AREA. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1157). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 50 7.151 N,5 43.38 W

 

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