This is the information page about the shipwreck Farfield, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 14.582 N,4 49.267 W (53.546566666667, -4.6729833333333)

 

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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.

 

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Name: FARFIELD

Length 48.2 meter, width: 7.6 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 468 ton
Load: stone

Cause: bombed & sunk by german aircraft, whilst en-route penmaenmawr to gloucester.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 46 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: H02531/41 WK LIES 230DEG, 7M FROM SOUTH STACK LT. (FOIC MILFORD). H01001/40 POSN 250DEG, 5M FROM SOUTH STACK LIGHT. (TRADE DIV LIST, JULY 1941). H1935/80 19.3.84 EXAM'D 24.11.83 IN 531434N, 044912W [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 39.5 IN GEN DEPTH 46MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 1.5MTRS. DCS3 HT 8.7MTRS, LENGTH 60MTRS, WIDTH 40MTRS, APPROX. LYING 090/270DEGS. GOOD SONAR CONTACT. (HMS FAWN, HI 3). BR STD. H1310/87/31 13.8.87 DIVED ON 6.5.87. CONFIRMED AS WK OF FARFIELD. LIES WITH LIST OF 80 DEGS TO PORT. INTACT FROM BOW TO AFTER COMBING OF AFTER HATCH. STERN SUPERSTRUCTURE AND ENGINE ROOM IS TOTALLY DESTROYED AND FLAT ON SEABED. MIDSHIPS SUPERSTRUCTURE REMAINS INTACT AND CARGO OF STONE IS SPILLED OUT OF OPEN HATCHES ON TO THE SEABED. HIGHEST POINT, THE STBD SIDE OF FLYING BRIDGE, STANDS SOME 9MTRS ABOVE THE SEABED. SCOUR AT STERN WITH DEPTH OF 50MTRS. (P L SMITH, 31.7.87).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ON PORT SIDE, STERN COLLAPSED, CARGO SPILLING OUT

Position: 53 14.582 N,4 49.267 W

 

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