This is the information page about the shipwreck Friargate (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 5.46 N,1 38.973 E (52.1500167, 1.8159667)
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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: FRIARGATE (POSSIBLY)
Length 38.4 meter, width: 6.8 meter, draught: 2.7, tonnage 264 ton
Load: minerals
Cause: Built in 1910 by crabtree & co, gt yarmouth. owned at time of loss by a chester, middlesbrough. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 45hp, single shaft. passage london for middlesbrough. cargo 225 tons loam. mined. two men lost.
Year of registration: 1915
Water depth above wreck: 16 meter, Height above seabed: 110 cm
Known since: 1915, last detected: 20161207
Details measurements/cartography: SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 4 M E OF ORFORDNESS. (LLWW1). POSN 520520N, 013915E FOR FILING ONLY. H4139/76 5.1.77 NOT FOUND DURING AREA DCS3 SWEEP. (HMS BULLDOG/BEAGLE, HI 31/76). AMEND DEAD. NCA. H2917/83 28.3.85 NOT LOCATED BY DCS3. (SOISS, HI 196). NCA. 5.12.13 WK LOCATED DURING CABLE ROUTE SURVEY IN 5205.459N, 0138.984E [WGD]. LENGTH 34MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS. LIES 101/191 DEGS. (D NEWMAN, COASTAL ROUTE SURVEYS, EMAIL DTD 3.12.13). POSSIBLY FRIARGATE. INS AS NDW PENDING FURTHER. SEP 2016/0000917593 31.8.17 EXAM'D 07.12.16; IN 5205.460N, 0138.973E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 13.00MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 16MTRS, LENGTH 26.1MTRS, WIDTH 10.1MTRS, HEIGHT 2MTRS, ORIENTATION 110/290 DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 22.93MTRS, 0.25MTRS DEEP, TOWARDS 023 DEGS. (GARDLINE, HI 1495). AMEND DW 13MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: COLLAPSED WRECK
Position: 52 5.46 N,1 38.973 E