This is the information page about the shipwreck Efos, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 4.105 N,1 29.225 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. Algarve
5. Alice taylor
6. Alster
7. Alston
8. Aquarius (possibly)
9. Artemisia
10. Asteria
11. Barrhill
12. Bertha
13. Birtley
14. Boulderpool (fwd part)
15. British triumph
16. Camilla weston
17. Cantabria (probably)
18. Cardanel
19. Chevychase
20. Clan morrison
21. Clansman (possibly)
22. Continental (possibly)
23. Corchester
24. Corduff
25. Courier (probably)
26. Duncarron
27. Efos
28. Eikhaug
29. Empress
30. Ems
31. Ethel
32. Francois trixier
33. Friesland
34. Fulgens
35. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
36. Gardenia
37. Georgia (for'd part)
38. Georgia (stern section)
39. Glen derry (probably)
40. Granta
41. Hauxley (possibly)
42. Hms agate
43. Hms arley
44. Hms caroline moller
45. Hms cloughton wyke
46. Hms dungeness
47. Hms force
48. Hms francolin
49. Hms kylemore
50. Hms solomon
51. Hms vortigern
52. Hms william stephen
53. Hmsm c 11
54. Homefire
55. I t l anna b
56. Ilse
57. Jessie maersk
58. Jevington court
59. Kenton
60. Keymun
61. King egbert
62. Lanterna (probably)
63. Leelite
64. Londoner (probably)
65. Marden
66. Marsworth
67. Minorca
68. Nimrod (probably)
69. Norman queen
70. Oakgrove
71. Ole bull
72. Ottar jarl
73. Otter
74. Oxshott (possibly)
75. P.l.m. 25
76. Pacific (possibly)
77. Pacific (possibly)
78. Pegrix
79. Pontfield (forepart)
80. Rimac
81. Rose marie
82. Salvus ii
83. Seagull
84. Seaham
85. Sheaf water
86. Sitona
87. St mark
88. St thomas (possibly)
89. Tayjack 1 (part of)
90. Tayjack 1 (part of)
91. Teddington
92. Thursonian
93. Trajan
94. Traviata (possibly)
95. Trelissick
96. Tyneford
97. Upminster
98. Varoy
99. Walkure
100. Welholme (possibly)
101. Western mist (possibly)
102. Westland
103. Whintown (possibly)
104. Winhill or whinhill
105. Xanthe

 

Name: EFOS

Length 70.1 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1245 ton
Load: coal

Cause: Ex-forestrow. built in 1924 by ardrossan dd & sb co ltd. owned at time of loss by tyne & wear shipping co ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 97hp, single shaft. machinery aft by plenty & sons ltd, newbury. passage sunderland for devonport. cargo coal. sank following a collision.

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 32 meter, Height above seabed: 123 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H0213/40 26.3.40 SANK APPROX 4 MILES NNW OF HAISBOROUGH LTV. (NOIC YARMOUTH, 27.2.40). H0259/40 14.5.40 INS AS NDWPA IN 530400N, 012900E.

- NM 1179/40. H0953/40 20.2.41 EXAM'D IN 530406N, 012906E. LEAST DEPTH 50FT. (HMS FRANKLIN, SEPT/OCT 1940). AMEND TO WK 8FMS.

- NM 350/41. H332/62 4.2.63 LOCATED IN 530400N, 012916E. LEAST E/S DEPTH 57 IN GEN DEPTH 105FT. (HMS SCOTT, 30.10.62). 8.3.72 AMEND TO WK 14.9MTRS [LAT]. NC 105. H2496/72 5.6.72 DIVED. BOW N. HAS 15 DEG LIST TO STBD AND STANDS ABOUT 19FT HIGH AT MAX. BOW FLATTENED BUT NO FURTHER COLLAPSE LIKELY. STERN CRUSHED BACK INTO ITSELF. SCOUR ABOUT 9FT DEEP. (UNDERMARINE OPS, 26.2.72). NCA. HH090/524/01 8.1.92 EXAM'D 15.7.91 IN 530403.7N, 012922.5E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 19.8, FOUL AT 20.1MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 20.5 IN GEN DEPTH 30.6MTRS. NO SCOUR. LIES IN TWO PARTS. DCS3 HT OF MAIN SECTION 12.6MTRS, LENGTH 90MTRS, WIDTH 30MTRS. ABOUT 110MTRS TO THE W THE 2ND PART STANDS 6.4MTR HIGH WITH LENGTH 45MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS. ORIENTATED 070/250 DEG. (LAND & MARINE, HI 531). BR STD. SEP 2018/000212985 7.9.18 EXAM'D 30.3.18 IN 5304.105N, 0129.225W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 23.34MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 32MTRS, LENGTH 78.4MTRS, WIDTH 24.2MTRS, HEIGHT 8.6MTRS, ORIENTATION 123/303 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 78MTRS, 1.7MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 128 DEGS. SPLIT IN TWO WITH DIFFERENT AREAS OF SCOUR.(GARDLINE, HI 1515). AMEND TO DW 23MTRS IN REVISED POSITION.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: IN TWO PARTS OR ?TWO WRECKS

Position: 53 4.105 N,1 29.225 E

 

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