This is the information page about the shipwreck Ethel, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 53.742 N,1 31.683 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. Artemisia
9. Asteria
10. Barrhill
11. Bertha
12. Birtley
13. Boulderpool (after part)
14. Boulderpool (fwd part)
15. British triumph
16. Camilla weston
17. Cantabria (probably)
18. Cardanel
19. Clan morrison
20. Clansman (possibly)
21. Continental (possibly)
22. Corchester
23. Cordene
24. Corduff
25. Courier (probably)
26. Duncarron
27. Efos
28. Eikhaug
29. Empress
30. Ems
31. Ethel
32. Friesland
33. Fulgens
34. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
35. Gardenia
36. Geneva
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 dhoon (probably)
47. Hms dungeness
48. Hms force
49. Hms francolin
50. Hms kylemore
51. Hms tonbridge
52. Hms vortigern
53. Hms washington (probably)
54. Hms william stephen
55. Hmsm c 11
56. Homefire
57. I t l anna b
58. Ilse
59. Jessie maersk
60. Jevington court
61. Kenton
62. Keymun
63. King egbert
64. La perouse (possibly)
65. Lanterna (probably)
66. Leelite
67. Londoner (probably)
68. Marden
69. Marsworth
70. Minorca
71. Murdoch (probably)
72. Norman queen
73. Oakgrove
74. Ole bull
75. Osprey
76. Ottar jarl
77. Otter
78. Oxshott (possibly)
79. Pacific (possibly)
80. Pacific (possibly)
81. Pegrix
82. Pontfield (forepart)
83. Prima
84. Regain
85. Rimac
86. Rose marie
87. Salvus ii
88. Seagull
89. Seaham
90. Sheaf water
91. Sitona
92. St mark
93. Tayjack 1 (part of)
94. Tayjack 1 (part of)
95. Teddington
96. Thursonian
97. Trelissick
98. Tyneford
99. Upminster
100. Varoy
101. Viola (possibly)
102. Walkure
103. War valley
104. Welholme (possibly)
105. Western mist (possibly)
106. Westland
107. Whintown (possibly)
108. Winhill or whinhill
109. Xanthe

 

Name: ETHEL

Year of registration: 1982

Water depth above wreck: 21 meter, Height above seabed: 60 cm

Known since: 1982, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H1952/80 28.1.83 EXAM'D 21.7.82 IN 525343N, 013148E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 16.4, FOUL AT 16.7MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 16.9 IN GEN DEPTH 22MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 3MTRS. LYING 060/240 DEGS. LENGTH 40MTRS, BEAM 10MTRS. REPD BY CIVILIAN DIVERS TO BE STERN HALF OF WOODEN SS. BELL RECOVERED - NAME ETHEL. (SOISS, HI 22). BR STD. HH100/351/04 27.3.91 DIVED ON. IDENTITY CONFIRMED. SMALL VESSEL OF AROUND 700 TONS. STERN AND MIDSHIPS SECTION INTACT BUT BOW IS SMASHED AND PARTLY BURIED IN SAND. LIES UPRIGHT, APPROX 4MTRS CLEAR OF SEABED. (R W HICKINBOTTOM, 24.2.91). SEP 2015/000041896 26.5.15 EXAM'D 19.10.14 IN 5253.742N, 0131.683E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 16.65MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 1MTRS, EXTENDS 40MTRS TOWARDS 135 DEGREES. LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 14MTRS, HT 4.2MTRS. LIES 060/240 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT AND UPRIGHT, PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY HI 1427). AMEND DW 16.6MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: LARGELY INTACT & UPRIGHT, PARTIALLY BURIED

Position: 52 53.742 N,1 31.683 E

 

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