This is the information page about the shipwreck Guernsey coast, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 7.308 N,1 38.862 W (50.24245, -1.9068)

 

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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. Aalesund (possibly)
2. Angelique
3. Ashanti (possibly)
4. Ashmun j clough (possibly)
5. Badger (probably)
6. Borgsten (probably)
7. Boulgaria
8. Charles rogers (probably)
9. Coquetdale (probably)
10. Corsaire
11. Dumfries
12. Dungrange
13. El kahira
14. Etoile des ondes
15. Eugene schneider (probably)
16. Eugene schneider (probably)
17. G-bagh
18. Guernsey coast
19. Hartley (possibly)
20. Hms michael clements
21. Hms tiger
22. Iduna
23. Ioannis fafalios
24. Kong guttorm (probably)
25. L'aventurier
26. Louie bell
27. Luxor
28. May girl
29. Messina
30. Morning admiral
31. Neree (possibly)
32. Normandy
33. Nurnberg
34. Oiekast (probably)
35. Pangani
36. Smyrna
37. Sphene
38. U 122 (possibly)
39. U 480
40. Ub 37 (probably)
41. Vikholmen
42. Waitara

 

Name: GUERNSEY COAST

Length 63.8 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 4.1, tonnage 646 ton
Load: foodstuffs: solid,general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1938 by ardrossan dockyard ltd, ardrossan. owned at time of loss by british channel islands shipping co ltd. 6 cylinder, 4 stroke oil engine, single shaft. machinery aft. passage guernsey for shoreham. cargo 46800 trays of tomatoes. sank following collision in thick fog with liberian ss catcher. one man lost. (msd).

Year of registration: 1984

Water depth above wreck: 58 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1984, last detected: 2005

Details measurements/cartography: HH090/588/01 28.6.94 EXAM'D 11.7.93 IN 500718.7N, 013851.4W [WGD] USING HYPERFIX [4 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 46.2 IN GEN DEPTH 58MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 5.4MTRS. LENGTH 73MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS, LIES 045/225DEGS. SITTING UPRIGHT ON SEABED. (NP 1008, HI 588). BR STD. HH226/410/03 14.3.95 WK 44MTRS IN 500722N, 013847W [EUR]. (FRENCH NM 95 08 18). AMEND TO WK 44MTRS, RETAIN POSN. BR STD. 16.11.98 EUR POSN: 500720.5N, 013846.5W. NC 2613. HH100/351/15 28.9.99 LARGE WK, COMPLETELY UPRIGHT AND INTACT ALTHOUGH NO MAST OR POSTS STANDING. BOWS E. STERN ACCOMMODATION REMAINS INTACT. VERY LARGE 'V' SHAPED HOLE IN THE PORT SIDE OF THE WK IMMEDIATELY FWD OF THE ACCOMMODATION. EXTENDS FROM KEEL TO UPPERDECK, CONSISTENT WITH COLLISION DAMAGE. SUGGESTS THE VESSEL WAS STRUCK AT RIGHT ANGLES. DECK HOUSING AMIDSHIPS IS PRESENT, ALTHOUGH THE BRIDGE HAS COLLAPSED FWD. BOW SECTION IS INTACT. GENERAL CONDITION OF THIS 4 HOLD VESSEL IS VERY GOOD, SUGGESTING THAT IT SANK POST WW2. PROBABLY IN THE 1960S OR 1970S. NO CARGO. (D C WENDES). NCA. HH226/410/06 1.8.01 DIVED IN 5007.26N, 0138.76W [OGB]. CONSTRUCTION AND GOOD CONDITION SUGGEST POST-WWII SINKING DATE. DIESEL ENGINE AFT. ALL MASTS COLLAPSED. STANDS 14MTRS HIGH IN 63MTRS. (D C WENDES). HH100/351/19 24.10.02 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. A COMPLETELY INTACT WK WITH ENGINES AFT AND BRIDGE MIDSHIPS. HAS THE APPEARANCE OF A POST-WAR COASTER. (N R CHIPCHASE). NCA. HH100/351/19 4.4.03 THIS COULD BE 'GUERNSEY COAST'. (N R CHIPCHASE). NCA. 28.4.05 CONFIRMED THAT THIS IS 'GUERNSEY COAST'. (D C WENDES, PERSONAL VISIT). NCA. 4.12.12 [WGD] POSN: 5007.308N, 0138.862W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT & INTACT, BOWS E

Position: 50 7.308 N,1 38.862 W

 

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