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 (52.795983333333, 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. Algarve
5. Alice taylor
6. Alster
7. Alston
8. Aquarius (possibly)
9. Artemisia
10. Asteria
11. Ayrshire (possibly)
12. Barrhill
13. Bertha
14. Birtley
15. Boulderpool (fwd part)
16. British triumph
17. Camilla weston
18. Cantabria (probably)
19. Cardanel
20. Chevychase
21. Clan morrison
22. Clansman (possibly)
23. Continental (possibly)
24. Corchester
25. Corduff
26. Corea
27. Courier (probably)
28. Duncarron
29. Efos
30. Eikhaug
31. Empress
32. Ems
33. Ethel
34. Francois trixier
35. Friesland
36. Fulgens
37. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
38. Gardenia
39. Georgia (for'd part)
40. Georgia (stern section)
41. Glen derry (probably)
42. Granta
43. Hauxley (possibly)
44. Hms agate
45. Hms arley
46. Hms caroline moller
47. Hms cloughton wyke
48. Hms dungeness
49. Hms force
50. Hms francolin
51. Hms kylemore
52. Hms nogi
53. Hms solomon
54. Hms vortigern
55. Hms william stephen
56. Hmsm c 11
57. Homefire
58. Hull trader
59. I t l anna b
60. Ilse
61. Jessie maersk
62. Jevington court
63. Kenton
64. Keymun
65. King egbert
66. Lanterna (probably)
67. Leelite
68. Londoner (probably)
69. Marden
70. Marsworth
71. Meriones
72. Minorca
73. Nimrod (probably)
74. Norman queen
75. Oakgrove
76. Ole bull
77. Ottar jarl
78. Otter
79. Oxshott (possibly)
80. P.l.m. 25
81. Pacific (possibly)
82. Pacific (possibly)
83. Pegrix
84. Pontfield (forepart)
85. Rimac
86. Rose marie
87. Salvus ii
88. Seagull
89. Seaham
90. Sheaf water
91. Sitona
92. St mark
93. St thomas (possibly)
94. Tayjack 1 (part of)
95. Tayjack 1 (part of)
96. Tayjack 1 (part of)
97. Teddington
98. Thursonian
99. Trajan
100. Traviata (possibly)
101. Trelissick
102. Tyneford
103. Upminster
104. Varoy
105. Walkure
106. Welholme (possibly)
107. Western mist (possibly)
108. Westland
109. Whintown (possibly)
110. Winhill or whinhill
111. 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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