This is the information page about the shipwreck Fallodon, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 26.291 N,1 13.174 W (50.438183, -1.219567)

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.

Name: FALLODON

Length 103.3 meter, width: 14.6 meter, draught: 6.7, tonnage 3011 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1903 by bartram & sons, sunderland. owned at time of loss by william reardon, smith & sons ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 293nhp, single shaft. passage le havre for glasgow. in ballast. torpedoed and sunk by uc-71. one man lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 35 meter, Height above seabed: 148 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20161113

Details measurements/cartography: H624/18 REPORTED SUNK IN APPROX 502900N, 005830W. (TB 16). SANK 12M SSE OF ST CATHERINE'S PT. (KHM PORTSMOUTH). NCA. HH090/962/01 17.12.02 EXAM'D 3.8.02 IN 5026.268N, 0113.156W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 27.1, FOUL 27.4MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 26.9 IN GEN DEPTH 33MTRS. SCOUR 2.2MTRS DEEP EXTENDS UP TO 39MTRS ALL AROUND WK. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. BROKEN WK WITH EXTENSIVE SCOUR. M WOODWARD CONFIRMS WK IS FALLODON. (GARDLINE, HI 962). INS AS SW 27MTRS. BR STD. H100/351/22 25.1.05 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. LIES ON PORT SIDE WITH BOWS SE. STBD SIDE PLATING COLLAPSED ONTO THE BOILERS. (P STREET, EMAIL DTD 23.1.05). NCA. 2.2.07 BUILDER'S NAMEPLATE HAS BEEN RECOVERED. (D C WENDES, SOUTH COAST SHIPWRECKS). NCA. SEP 2016/000165703 14.11.16 EXAM'D 13.11.16 IN 5026.291N, 0113.174W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 28.24MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 35MTRS. LENGTH 107MTRS, WIDTH 28MTRS, HT 6.7MTRS, ORIENTATION 148DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 85MTRS, TOWARDS 087 DEGS. STARBOARD HULL LARGELY COLLAPSED ON TOP OF THE REMAINS OF THE VESSEL. SHALLOW MOST POINT IS AT THE STERN. A BOILER IS VISIBLE IN THE CENTRE OF THE WK. (MMT UK, HI 1499). AMEND DW 28MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: STARBOARD HULL LARGELY COLLAPSED

Position: 50 26.291 N,1 13.174 W

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