This is the information page about the shipwreck Flashlight (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 31.886 N,0 47.642 E (53.3729833, 1.0462167)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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: FLASHLIGHT (PROBABLY)
Length 66 meter, width: 9.8 meter, draught: 4.1, tonnage 934 ton
Load: coal
Cause: Built in 1920 by s p austin & sons, sunderland. owned at time of loss by gas light & coke co. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 117hp, single shaft. passage seaham for london. cargo coal. bombed & sunk by german aircraft.
Year of registration: 1941
Water depth above wreck: 20 meter, Height above seabed: 40 cm
Known since: 1941, last detected: 1992
Details measurements/cartography: H01047/41 19.3.41 PFNM 642/41 ISSUED. CANCELLED BY FNM 824/41. H01047/41 10.4.41 DW PA IN 533122N, 004830E. (ADMIRALTY).
- NM 816/41. H01047/41 30.9.41 EXAM'D IN 533147N, 004758E. SWEPT CLEAR 34FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 40FT IN GEN DEPTH 11FMS. LIES 170/350 DEGS. (HMS FRANKLIN, 24.6.41). AMEND TO WK 5.5FMS.
- NM 2027/41. H01047/41 22.7.47 EXTENSIVE SEARCH DISCLOSED LARGE SCOUR UP TO 36 FT DEEP AND 2MILES LONG BY 2 CABLES WIDE APPROX COVERING AREA OF WRECK, BUT NO TRACE OF WRECK. CONSIDERED WRECK HAS BURIED ITSELF. (HMS FETLAR, 8.7.47). H01047/41 7.9.48 EXAM'D IN 533144N, 004748E. OROPESA SWEEP CLEAR AT 47FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 60FT IN GEN DEPTH 72FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 25.8.48). AMEND TO WK 7.75FMS.
- NM 2023/48. 23.6.75 AMEND TO SW 13.6MTRS. NC 107. 25.3.77 AMEND TO WK 15.9MTRS. NC 1190. H4465/81 21.11.83 EXAM'D 22.7.82 IN 533152N, 004745E. LEAST E/S DEPTH 15.9 IN GEN DEPTH 20MTRS. SCOUR 2MTRS DEEP. DCS3 HT 2.8MTRS. NOT FULLY INVESTIGATED AS ONLY DISCOVERED DURING INSPECTION OF E/S TRACES OBTAINED DURING INTERLINING OF AREA. LENGTH 35MTRS, LYING 040/220 DEGS. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 74). BR STD. 5.10.93 WK SHOWN IN 533136N, 004750E [OGB] ON KINGFISHER ICES 4B-82 [1992 EDN]. SEP 2020/000235095 7.10.20 NOT LOCATED IN M/B DATASET (2019). NFS. (UKHO-BDC & TRITON KNOLL OFFSHORE WIND LTD SURVEY 23.7.18-22.10.19). NFA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 53 31.886 N,0 47.642 E