This is the information page about the shipwreck Gardenia, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 5.344 N,1 30.751 E (52.7959833, 1.6965)

 

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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. Aberhill
2. Actuosity (possibly)
3. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
4. Algarve
5. Alice taylor
6. Alster
7. Alston
8. Aquarius (possibly)
9. Artemisia
10. Asteria
11. Barrhill
12. Bertha
13. Birtley
14. Boulderpool (fwd part)
15. British triumph
16. Camilla weston
17. Cantabria (probably)
18. Cardanel
19. Chevychase
20. Clan morrison
21. Clansman (possibly)
22. Continental (possibly)
23. Corchester
24. Cordene
25. Corduff
26. Courier (probably)
27. Duncarron
28. Efos
29. Eikhaug
30. Empress
31. Ems
32. Ethel
33. Friesland
34. Fulgens
35. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
36. Gardenia
37. Georgia (for'd part)
38. Georgia (stern section)
39. Glen derry (probably)
40. Granta
41. Hauxley (possibly)
42. Hms agate
43. Hms arley
44. Hms caroline moller
45. Hms cloughton wyke
46. Hms dungeness
47. Hms force
48. Hms francolin
49. Hms kylemore
50. Hms vortigern
51. Hms william stephen
52. Hmsm c 11
53. Homefire
54. I t l anna b
55. Ilse
56. Jessie maersk
57. Jevington court
58. Kenton
59. Keymun
60. King egbert
61. Lanterna (probably)
62. Leelite
63. Londoner (probably)
64. Marden
65. Minorca
66. Norman queen
67. Oakgrove
68. Ole bull
69. Ottar jarl
70. Otter
71. Oxshott (possibly)
72. Pacific (possibly)
73. Pacific (possibly)
74. Pegrix
75. Pontfield (forepart)
76. Rimac
77. Rose marie
78. Salvus ii
79. Seagull
80. Seaham
81. Sheaf water
82. Sitona
83. St mark
84. St thomas (possibly)
85. Tayjack 1 (part of)
86. Tayjack 1 (part of)
87. Teddington
88. Thursonian
89. Traviata (possibly)
90. Trelissick
91. Tyneford
92. Upminster
93. Varoy
94. Walkure
95. Welholme (possibly)
96. Western mist (possibly)
97. Westland
98. Whintown (possibly)
99. Winhill or whinhill
100. Xanthe

 

Name: GARDENIA

Length 110 meter, width: 14.6 meter, draught: 7.6, tonnage 3745 ton
Load: chemicals

Cause: Mined while on passage casablanca for billingham and leith. (ww2sl; lloyds war losses).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 35 meter, Height above seabed: 88 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H0308/40 28.3.40 REPD MINED IN 530430N, 013500E. THIS POSN CONSIDERED UNRELIABLE. (C IN C NORE, 15.3.40). - PFNM 775/40. H0953/40 20.2.41 LOCATED IN 530522N, 013037E. LEAST DEPTH 84FT. (HMS FRANKLIN, SEPT/OCT 1940). INS AS WK 14FMS.

- NM 350/41. H322/62 4.2.63 H4729/62 A/S CONTACT OBTAINED 2 CABLES SE OF 530524N, 013036E. (HMS SCOTT, 1962) 8.3.72 AMEND TO WK 25MTRS. NC 105. HH090/524/01 9.1.92 EXAM'D 21.7.91 IN 550519.4N, 013051.6E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 27.1, FOUL AT 27.3MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 28.3 IN GEN DEPTH 35MTRS. SCOUR 2MTRS DEEP. DCS3 HT 8MTRS, LENGTH 85MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS. LIES E/W BETWEEN TWO SANDWAVES. (LAND & MARINE, HI 531). BR STD. SEP 2018/000212985 13.9.18 EXAM'D 30.3.18 IN 5305.344N, 0130.751E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 28.33MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 35MTRS, LENGTH 73.8MTRS, WIDTH 11.4MTRS, HEIGHT 8.6MTRS, ORIENTATION 088/268 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 92.2MTRS, 3MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 116 DEGS. INTACT AND UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 1515). AMEND TO DW 28MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: LIES BETWEEN TWO SANDWAVES

Position: 53 5.344 N,1 30.751 E

 

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