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 (52.795983333333, 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. Ayrshire (possibly)
12. Barrhill
13. Bertha
14. Birtley
15. Boulderpool (fwd part)
16. British triumph
17. Camilla weston
18. Cantabria (probably)
19. Cardanel
20. Chevychase
21. Clan morrison
22. Clansman (possibly)
23. Continental (possibly)
24. Corchester
25. Cordene
26. Corduff
27. Corea
28. Courier (probably)
29. Duncarron
30. Efos
31. Eikhaug
32. Empress
33. Ems
34. Ethel
35. Friesland
36. Fulgens
37. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
38. Gardenia
39. Georgia (for'd part)
40. Georgia (stern section)
41. Glen derry (probably)
42. Granta
43. Hauxley (possibly)
44. Hms agate
45. Hms arley
46. Hms caroline moller
47. Hms cloughton wyke
48. Hms dungeness
49. Hms force
50. Hms francolin
51. Hms kylemore
52. Hms nogi
53. Hms vortigern
54. Hms william stephen
55. Hmsm c 11
56. Homefire
57. I t l anna b
58. Ilse
59. Jessie maersk
60. Jevington court
61. Kenton
62. Keymun
63. King egbert
64. Lanterna (probably)
65. Leelite
66. Londoner (probably)
67. Marden
68. Meriones
69. Minorca
70. Norman queen
71. Oakgrove
72. Ole bull
73. Ottar jarl
74. Otter
75. Oxshott (possibly)
76. Pacific (possibly)
77. Pacific (possibly)
78. Pegrix
79. Pontfield (forepart)
80. Rimac
81. Rose marie
82. Salvus ii
83. Seagull
84. Seaham
85. Sheaf water
86. Sitona
87. St mark
88. St thomas (possibly)
89. Tayjack 1 (part of)
90. Tayjack 1 (part of)
91. Tayjack 1 (part of)
92. Teddington
93. Thursonian
94. Traviata (possibly)
95. Trelissick
96. Tyneford
97. Upminster
98. Varoy
99. Walkure
100. Welholme (possibly)
101. Western mist (possibly)
102. Westland
103. Whintown (possibly)
104. Winhill or whinhill
105. 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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