This is the information page about the shipwreck Fetlar, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 41.073 N,2 4.36 W (48.516666666667, -14.833333333333)

 

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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: FETLAR

Length 59.5 meter, width: 8.4 meter, draught: 4.2, tonnage 472 ton
Load: coal

Cause: struck brunel rock and sank while on passage southampton to st malo.

Year of registration: 1923

Water depth above wreck: 15 meter, Height above seabed: 130 cm

Known since: 1923, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: H4598/24 3.7.23 ST IN 484100N, 020400W OR 275DEGS, 3.5C FROM CENTRE OF BASSE DE LA BATIERE, MARKED BY RED BUOY. (FRENCH NM 81 12 58 & 34 1605 23).

- NM 1061/23. H5897/24 1.9.24 NOW CHARTED AS DW. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H977/35 21.2.35 DELETE DW. (FRENCH NM 4/154).

- NM 269/35. H5493/69 12.10.70 DW PA IN 484110N, 020417W [EUR]. (FRENCH NM 70 37 21).

- NM 1735/70. 23.9.77 WK 8MTRS IN 484111N, 020411W [EUR]. NAME GIVEN. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1976). 23.2.79 SHOWN AS WK 8MTRS ON FRENCH 878. NE 3659. 10.4.87 WK LIES UPRIGHT ON KEEL HEADING 310DEGS. GOOD GENERAL STATE AND COVERED WITH VEGETATION. SAND IN HOLDS. LEAST DEPTH 8.5MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 13MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS, NO.14582008). NCA. HH351/353/01 25.7.91 SHOWN AS WK 8.5MTRS ON FRENCH 7130 [1991 EDN]. BR STD. 23.12.97 SHOWN AS WK 8.4MTRS IN 484109N, 020417.5W [EUR] ON FRENCH 7130 [1997 EDN]. NC 2700. 10.2.98 SEABED SAND. THE HULL HAS LITTLE DAMAGE, EXCEPT FOR A LARGE GAP IN ITS CENTRE. LYING 160/340DEGS [MAGNETIC], BOWS 340DEGS. TWO HIGHEST POINTS ARE THE BOWS & STERN, THE BOWS BEING THE HIGHEST. POSN ACCURACY 10MTRS. LEAST DEPTH 8.4MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 13MTRS. POSN AS ON FRENCH 7130 [1997 EDN]. SURVEYED LENGTH 60MTRS. DIVERS REPORT, 24.6.96. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1998). NCA. HH351/550/05 19.5.03 AMEND WK 8.5MTRS TO WK 8.4MTRS IN 4841.15N, 0204.30W ON FRENCH 7155 [2ND SCALE]. (FRENCH NM 18/23/2003). NCA, BA 2700 NE IN HAND, ADOPTION OF FRENCH 7130 [LARGEST SCALE] CORRECT. 24.9.03 SHOWN IN 4841.094N, 0204.378W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7130 [INT 1754] [3RD EDN 2002, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NE 2700.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UK NM 294/21

Position: 48 41.073 N,2 4.36 W

 

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