Wreck: Gripfast (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Gripfast, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 26.032 N,2 30.065 W (50.433867, -2.501083)
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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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Shipwreck details
Name: GRIPFAST
Length 68.6 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1109 ton
Load: coal
Cause: built in 1910. an ss, single shaft. passage barry for sheerness. attacked by german aircraft. eight men lost including three from ss rosten sunk earlier the same day by e boats. (sibi).
Year of registration: 1944
Water depth above wreck: 46 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm
Known since: 1944, last detected: 2003
Details measurements/cartography: SONAR CONTACT IN PA 502612N, 023012W. (AUBD 303/14, ESCORT GROUP 4). H3971/52 30.6.52 INS NDWPA IN 502612N, 023012W. F 6840. H4623/55 20.7.55 LOCATED IN 502557N, 022958W USING DECCA. LEAST E/S DEPTH 19FMS IN GEN DEPTH 25FMS. DIRN 090/270DEGS. GOOD A/S RESPONSE. (HMS SCOTT, 16.10.54). INS WK 19FMS IN REVISED POSN. LC 3315. H3564/61 20.7.61 GOOD CLEAR ECHO BUT DID NOT MARK WELL ON RANGE RECORDER. LOST ON BOTH RUNS AT 7-800YDS. (CAPTAIN F2, PORTLAND). H3950/70 24.5.71 HAMEND TO WK 34MTRS. NC 3315. H5982/82 3.2.83 WK SHOWN IN 502607N, 023012W ON KINGFISHER CHART K(SW)1, 1982. NCA. HH100/351/21 15.10.03 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED BY THE BELL. PARTLY INTACT WITH GUN AND MOUNT ON SEABED. SHELLS DATED 1941 INSIDE THE STERN. UPRIGHT BUT PART OF MIDSHIPS DECK INVERTED ON STBD SIDE. BOWS INTACT BUT FOC'S'LE COLLAPSED. PROPELLER BLADES MISSING AND ENGINE TILTED 15 DEGS TO STBD. (N R CHIPCHASE & I TAYLOR, SKIN DEEP DIVING). NCA. HH090/961/01 3.12.03 NOT INVESTIGATED. LIES IN AREA OF STATIC FISHING GEAR. (GARDLINE, HI 961). NCA. H100/351/21 7.1.04 LIES IN 5026.032N, 0230.065W [WGD]. (N R CHIPCHASE & I TAYLOR, SKIN DEEP DIVING). AMEND POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: PARTLY INTACT
Position: 50 26.032 N,2 30.065 W
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