This is the information page about the shipwreck Glenlee, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 40.515 N,0 33.895 W (50.6523667, -0.6161833)

 

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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.

 

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Name: GLENLEE

Length 121.9 meter, width: 16.2 meter, draught: 8.2, tonnage 4915 ton
Load: metal: concentrate and products

Cause: Built in 1917 by c connell, glasgow. owned at time of loss by furness withy & co. triple expansion engine of 510hp, single shaft. on passage dunkirk for portland. cargo government stores and steel. torpedoed by ub-57. one man lost.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 20 meter, Height above seabed: 95 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20180206

Details measurements/cartography: TORPEDOED AND SUNK 4M E BY N FROM OWERS LTV. (WW1SL). CHARTED AS WK [OLD SYMBOL] MARKED BY BUOY. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H8242/20 18.11.20 SUNK IN 504033N, 003357W, 7.5M SW OF LITTLEHAMPTON. LEAST DEPTH 45FT AT LWST. WK APPEARS TO BE BROKEN UP. (TH, 17.11.20). CHART AS WK 7FMS & DELETE BUOY.

- NM 1948/20. H632/31 10.2.31 CONFIRMATION OF LEAST DEPTH 45FT. (TH). AMEND TO WK 7.5FMS. NE 2451. H4726/34 15.8.34 OROPESA SWEEP SET TO 8FMS. WK WAS CAUGHT WITH THE KITE & THE OTTER SIMULTANEOUSLY & BOTH WERE TORN OFF THE SWEEP. DRIFT SWEEP CLEAR AT 27FT, FOUL AT 29FT. POSN 147.25DEGS, 7.75M FROM BOGNOR REGIS CHURCH SPIRE. (HMS FLINDERS, 13.7.34). AMEND TO WK 4.5FMS IN 504033N, 003349W.

- NM 1345/34. H4726/34 28.11.34 WK NOW MARKED BY CON LT BUOY, GPFL(3)G15S. (TH, NM 40/34).

- NM 2039/34. H3407/36 5.6.36 DISPERSED. LEAST DEPTH 50FT AT LWST. BUOY REMOVED. (TH, 25.5.36). AMEND TO WK 8FMS 0FT & DELETE BUOY.

- NM 1076/36. H3507/36 10.7.36 DRIFT SWEEP, FOUL AT 49FT, CLEAR 47FT. LEAST DEPTH 48FT. POSN OF LEAST WATER 504028N, 003352W. (HMS FLINDERS, 1.7.36). H5019/56 17.8.56 SALVAGE IN PROGRESS. G CAN LT BUOY, GPFL(2)G10S S OF WK, ALSO 4 MOORING BUOYS. (GREY AND THOMPSON). - TNM 2062/56. H5019/56 5.2.57 SALVAGE OPERATIONS SUSPENDED & BUOY WITHDRAWN. (GREY & THOMPSON). - TNM 107/57. H5019/56 29.3.57 SALVAGE RESUMED AND LT BUOY RE-LAID. (GREY AND THOMPSON). H5019/56 25.7.57 SALVAGE OPERATIONS FINISHED AND LT BUOY REMOVED. (GREY & THOMPSON). 23.7.71 NOW CHARTED AS SW 14.6MTRS. NC 1652. 7.4.72 NOW CHARTED AS SW 14.3MTRS [LAT]. NC 1652. H1270/72 29.8.72 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. ONLY BOILERS REMAINED, NO TRACE OF REMAINDER OF WRECK. (D DILLINGHAM, 13.6.72). NCA. H4822/75 23.3.77 WIRE SWEPT BY SCES 16.9.76 IN 504029N, 003348W [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. CLEAR AT 14.7MTRS, FOUL AT 14.8MTRS. VERY SMALL WK, LYING NE/SW IN GEN DEPTH 19.5MTRS. (FSL 'WATERWITCH', HI 73/76). AMEND TO SW 14.7MTRS IN REVISED POSN. NE 1652. 11.6.76 REPORTED AS ONLY BOILERS REMAINING. 2 BOILERS PLUS A NUMBER OF PLATES LYING FLAT ON THE BOTTOM. (D DILLINGHAM, SUBSERV, 11.6.76 &16.2.77). H1309/79 31.8.79 DIVED 9.6.79. LIES NE/SW. WELL BROKEN UP, 3 LARGE BOILERS & METAL RIBS REMAIN. SILTED UP ON SE SIDE, SLIGHT SCOUR TO NW. (J R SALSBURY, 13.6.79). HH091/02/01 22.10.02 EXAM'D IN 5040.519N, 0033.890W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 15.0, FOUL 15.2MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 15.3 IN GEN DEPTH 21MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 30MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS. DCS3 HT 5.8MTRS. LIES 150/330 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (NP 1016, HI 1002). BR STD. SEP 2018/000198963 13.08.18 EXAM'D 06.02.18; IN 5040.515N, 0033.895W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 14.85MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 20MTRS, LENGTH 122MTRS, WIDTH 63MTRS, HEIGHT 5.1MTRS, ORIENTATION 095/275 DEGS. THE REMAINS CONSIST OF THREE MAIN BOILERS ARRANGED IN A ROW &A SMALLER AUXILLIARY BOILER TO THE W. THE REST IS WELL BROKEN UP, WITH SECTIONS OF THE VESSEL FRAME &DISLOCATED SECTIONS OF HULL PLATE STREWN ABOUT. IT IS NOT CLEAR FROM THE REMAINS WHICH IS THE BOW OR STERN, (THE ENGINE &THE PROPELLER SHAFT ARE NOT VISIBLE &WERE POSSIBLY SALVAGED). A LINE WAS SEEN AT THE E END OF THE WRECK. (MMT, HI 1498). AMEND DW 14.8MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP, FOUR BOILERS REMAIN, NOT CLEAR WHICH IS THE BOW OR STERN.

Position: 50 40.515 N,0 33.895 W

 

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