This is the information page about the shipwreck Farn, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 15.718 N,3 29.454 W (50.261967, -3.490900)

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: FARN

Length 112.8 meter, width: 15.2 meter, draught: 7.9, tonnage 4393 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1910 by w doxford & sons ltd, sunderland. owned at time of loss by fargrove steam navigation co ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 356 nhp, single shaft. passage london for salonica. torpedoed by ub-31. no lives lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 55 meter, Height above seabed: 165 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 5M E BY N FROM START POINT IN APPROX 501527N, 032900W. (WW1SL). H6025/39 22.8.39 H6025/39 22.8.39 WK 21FMS IN 501541N, 032923W. (HMS GLEANER). CHART AS WK 21FMS. - FNM ACTION. H2502/51 H2502/51 LOCATED IN 501541N, 032925W. LEAST E/S DEPTH 22FMS. HEIGHT ABOVE SEABED 46FT. (HMS SEAGULL, 1950). AMEND TO WK 22FMS (40MTRS). BR STD. H2396/77 11.3.77 H2396/77 11.3.77 WK IN 501540N, 032923W USING DECCA. ABOUT 400FT LONG BY SONAR. LYING ABOUT NNE/SSW. NOT DIVED ON. (RISDON BEAZLEY, 10.2.77). NCA. H1309/79 16.10.80 H1309/79 16.10.80 DIVED ON AND IDENTIFIED AS THE 'FARN' FROM BELL WHICH WAS RECOVERED. WK IS UPRIGHT & CENTRAL. SUPERSTRUCTURE & ALL FOR'D OF IT IS COMPLETE. LEAST DEPTH 40MTRS. (A HILLGROVE, 30.9.80). H5982/82 16.2.83 H5982/82 16.2.83 WK SHOWN IN 501535N, 032926W [OGB], USING DECCA, ON KINGFISHER CHART K(SW)3 [1982 EDN]. NCA. H2061/82 13.9.83 H2061/82 13.9.83 EXAM'D 25.3.83 IN 501542N, 032923W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 40.8 IN GEN DEPTH 55MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 15.4MTRS. LIES 170/350DEGS. GOOD SONAR CONTACT. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (HMS HERALD, HI 132). BR STD. 26.4.13 26.4.13 EXAM'D 19.1.13 IN 5015.718N, 0329.454W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 42.5 IN GEN DEPTH 55MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 118.2MTRS, WIDTH 15.1MTRS, HT 12.5MTRS. LIES 165/345 DEGS. UPRIGHT, BOWS SSE. PART OF STERN BROKEN OR SUNK INTO SEABED. (NETSURVEY, HI 1369). AMEND WK 42MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, INTACT, BOWS SSE

Position: 50 15.718 N,3 29.454 W

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