This is the information page about the shipwreck Forth, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 29.919 N,2 26.247 W (49.465666666667, -2.6346666666667)

 

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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.

 

1. Agenoria
2. Agrion
3. Ambassadrice
4. Amiable lucitte
5. Antoinette
6. Armas
7. Auguste and louise
8. Beatrice maud
9. Beauport
10. Belfort
11. Bess mitchell
12. Bizon (possibly)
13. Bizon (probably)
14. Bohera
15. Bonafide
16. Bremenry
17. Brighton
18. Briseis
19. Buchanness
20. Buzuzlo (ex weston)
21. Cap horn des mers
22. Capri
23. Captain niko
24. Carrouest one (possibly)
25. Carrouest one (possibly)
26. Channel queen
27. Cid
28. Citta de bari
29. Clarrie
30. Constantia s (after part)(possibly)
31. Constantia s (after part)(possibly)
32. Constantia s (fwd part)
33. Corail
34. Dagenham
35. Dambuster
36. Dora
37. Dr rudolf wahrendorff
38. Dromore
39. Dunsinane
40. Edirne
41. Ella
42. Emily eveson
43. Empress
44. Evasion
45. Felix de abasolo
46. Fermain
47. Figaro
48. Ford power
49. Foreland
50. Forth
51. Ginette
52. Goureux
53. Grandest
54. Guilding star
55. Guyona
56. Helge (possibly)
57. Heron
58. Hms dragon
59. Hms viper
60. Hopper
61. Ida (ex abbey town)
62. Jeanne marie
63. Jesmond
64. Josef joham (stern half) (probably)
65. Joseph and margaret
66. Juene marie
67. Jules
68. Kathleen
69. La havre
70. La josephine
71. La salle
72. Le nord
73. Le poilu
74. Leastilien
75. Linn o dee (or linn o dec)
76. Liverpool
77. Louise
78. M 483
79. Makeshift (possibly)
80. Mako
81. Marie mashman
82. Mary toovey
83. Matelda
84. Mon ami
85. Ocean queen
86. Oost vlaanderen
87. Peras
88. Petite anna
89. Point law
90. Portsea
91. Prima
92. Progress
93. Prosperity (stern section)
94. Pruthree
95. Rabbi
96. Raffio
97. Rap
98. Rhenania
99. Rontegui
100. Saint antoine
101. Saint louis
102. San nicolau
103. Schelde
104. St louie
105. St malo (possibly)
106. Stella (probably)
107. Terra
108. To venner
109. Tyne
110. Uc 18
111. Ullyses
112. Vedanta
113. Victorine
114. Ville de malaga
115. Voorwaarts
116. Waverley
117. Wear
118. Western belle
119. Yorouba

 

Name: FORTH

Length 57.3 meter, width: 8.3 meter, draught: 4.8, tonnage 499 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined

Cause: built of iron in 1862 by barclay, curle and co ltd, whiteinch (glasgow). owned at time of loss by leven ss co, middlesbrough. compound expansion engine of 130 nhp, single shaft. machinery by the builder. passage middlesbrough for st malo. ran aground at night in fog. only ribs remain.

Year of registration: 1906

Water depth above wreck: 12 meter

Known since: 1906, last detected: 2001

Details measurements/cartography: 20.7.72 20.7.72 SUNK OFF PETITE LONGUE PIERRE. (CHANNEL ISLAND WKS). POSN 492953N, 022551E FOR FILING ONLY. HH100/351/17 23.4.01 HH100/351/17 23.4.01 DIVED IN 4929.919N, 0226.247W [WGD] USING GPS. STANDS 3MTRS HIGH BY E/S. WK IS WELL BROKEN UP WITH BOILERS AND STERN STANDING 2-4MTRS PROUD. BELL WITH 'FORTH 1862' RECOVERED. (M PAIGE). INS AS WK 8MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP, BOILERS AND STERN REMAIN STANDING

Position: 49 29.919 N,2 26.247 W

 

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