This is the information page about the shipwreck Firelight (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 1.219 N,1 19.142 W (55.020317, -1.319033)

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: FIRELIGHT (POSSIBLY)

Length 71.9 meter, width: 9.7 meter, draught: 4.5, tonnage 1143 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-rookwood. built in 1896 by j blumer & co of sunderland. owned at time of loss by the gas light & coke company. two boilers, triple expansion engine, single shaft. 180 hp. torpedoed in the port side and sunk by uc 29. passage newcastle upon tyne for london. cargo coal. crew recovered. (r young).

Year of registration: 1949

Water depth above wreck: 36 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1949, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: H01459/41 1.12.49 NDW IN 550110N, 011903W.

- NM 2464/49. H4871/68 3.7.68 EXAM'D IN 550113N, 011903W [OGB] USING HSA. LEAST E/S DEPTH 90FT IN GEN DEPTH 120FT. SCOUR DEPTH 122FT. SEABED COLLIERY SPOIL. LENGTH ABOUT 300FT. LIES ABOUT 070/250 DEG. (HMS MYRMIDON, ROS DTD 25.10.67 FOR HI 353). AMEND TO WK 15FMS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. H2189/71 22.5.72 SONAR CONTACT. NOT YET INVESTIGATED. (ISS, 1971). 15.5.73 AMENDED TO WK 27MTRS. (AUTHORITY NOT KNOWN). NC 152. 3.12.75 AMENDED TO WK 27.5MTRS. NC 152. (CHANGE OF DATUM). HH090/796/01 5.1.99 EXAM'D 22.7.98 IN 550112.8N, 011909.3W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 26.3, FOUL 26.6MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 27.4 IN GEN DEPTH 36MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 10.0MTRS. LENGTH 55MTRS, WIDTH 24MTRS. LIES 045/225 DEGS. INTACT. SOME DAMAGE TO SW END. DEBRIS EXTENDS 40MTRS TOWARDS 240 DEGS. (GARDLINE, HI 796). AMEND TO SW 26MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2019/000043627 26.3.19 EXAM’D 26.3.19 IN 5501.219N, 0119.142W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 28.66MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 36MTRS. LENGTH 50.7MTRS, WIDTH 12.3MTRS, HT 7.6MTRS, ORIENTATION 045/225DEGS. FAIRLY INTACT, ALTHOUGH STERN BROKEN UP. (MERITAITO, HI 1513). AMEND DW 28.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: FAIRLY INTACT, ALTHOUGH STERN BROKEN UP

Position: 55 1.219 N,1 19.142 W

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