This is the information page about the shipwreck Ightham (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 33.122 N,0 27.819 E (53.6109, 0.26485)

 

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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. Airdrie (possibly)
2. Amelie-mathilde
3. Amenity
4. Arduity
5. Argo
6. B o borjesson
7. Benmacdhui
8. British councillor
9. British prince
10. Cadmus
11. Capitaine edmond laborie
12. Catford
13. Cecil (possibly)
14. City of birmingham
15. Corinth (possibly)
16. Corland
17. Cramlington (possibly)
18. Deodata
19. Diana
20. Dido
21. Dunsany
22. Egret
23. Empress (probably)
24. Ethel (possibly)
25. Exmoor
26. Fane
27. Faunus
28. Fermo
29. Flourish
30. Fowberry tower (part)
31. Freidig (possibly)
32. Fryken
33. Gerhardt (possibly)
34. Girl kitty (possibly)
35. Giuseppe
36. Gladeto
37. Gluckauf (possibly)
38. Gothic
39. Grangemouth
40. Harlech
41. Heimland
42. Hms benvolio
43. Hms botanic
44. Hms calverton
45. Hms corfield
46. Hms egret
47. Hms kos xvi (probably)
48. Hms princess victoria
49. Hms strathborve (part)
50. Hms susarion
51. Hms warland (possibly)
52. Homer
53. Ightham (possibly)
54. Inge marguerite (possibly)
55. Ionic (probably)
56. Jane (possibly)
57. Janet helen (possibly)
58. Jersey (probably)
59. Katina bulgari
60. Keynes
61. Kimberley (possibly)
62. Konstantinos hadjipateras
63. Kyma
64. Ladas (possibly)
65. Lancaster (possibly)
66. Lightship no 83
67. Lincolnshire time and tide bell
68. Lindy sue
69. Lottie (possibly)
70. Lucerne
71. Lutha
72. Maggie
73. Magnolia
74. Marie dawn
75. Matanuska (probably)
76. Merchiston
77. Modig
78. Modiva (possibly)
79. Nimrod
80. Onesta
81. Ophir ii (possibly)
82. Orsa
83. Paraciers
84. Petroswift
85. Pilsudski
86. Polzella (possibly)
87. Portia
88. Rado (possibly)
89. Ravonia (part)
90. Ravonia (part) (possibly)
91. Rayford
92. Revello
93. Revi
94. Revigo (possibly)
95. Rhuys
96. Rievaulx abbey
97. Rivaulx
98. River don (part of)(probably)
99. Rivergate
100. Rosebud (possibly)
101. Royston
102. Salacon
103. Salmondby
104. Saltoun
105. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
106. Schieland (possibly)
107. Scotia (possibly)
108. Sea pearl
109. Sota eduardo
110. Stylianos chandris
111. Thessaly
112. Trignac (possibly)
113. Upminster (possibly)
114. Vechstroom
115. Venture (possibly)
116. Vereingte (possibly)
117. Victoria
118. Whitemantle (possibly)
119. Winga

 

Name: IGHTHAM (POSSIBLY)

Length 72.5 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1337 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Ex-nevile '33, ex-wharfdale, ex-abeville, ex-edwin hunter. built in 1914 by wood, skinner & co. owned at time of loss by hull gates shipping co ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 176hp, single shaft. machinery by g clarke ltd, sunderland. passage london & southend for sunderland. in ballast. mined. no lives lost.

Year of registration: 1942

Water depth above wreck: 14 meter, Height above seabed: 85 cm

Known since: 1942, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: SANK IN 553300N, 002600E, APPROX. (WW2SL). H03404/42 14.11.42 MINED. WK LOCATED IN 533318N, 002730E. (FO HUMBER, 8.10.42). INS AS DW WITH G CAN, GPFL(2) G 10S, CLOSE N.

- NM 2494/42. H03404/42 6.1.50 EXAM'D AFTER DISPERSAL. OROPESA SWEEP CLEAR AT 41, FOUL AT 43FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 47 IN GEN DEPTH 48FT. SCOUR DEPTH 54FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 1949). AMEND TO WK 7.25MTRS.

- NM 2115/50. H03404/42 30.10.50 SWEPT CLEAR AT 43, FOUL AT 44FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 48 IN GEN DEPTH 50FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 1950). H595/58 2.6.58 AMEND TO WK 7FMS 2FT. NC 107. 8.8.63 AMEND WK 7FMS 1FT. NES 107, 1190. 23.6.75 AMEND TO SW 12.4MTRS. NC 107. HH090/593/01 6.1.94 EXAM'D 4.7.93 IN 533306.2N, 002755.1E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [3 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 12.2, FOUL AT 12.4MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 12.3 IN GEN DEPTH 14MTRS. NO SCOUR. SMALL BURIED WK. LYING 085/265 DEG. DCS3 HT 2.3MTRS, LENGTH 15MTRS, BREADTH 5MTRS. (OCEONICS (UK) LTD., HI 593).

- NM 477/94. SEP 2013/000180690 11.7.14 EXAM'D 28.12.13 IN 5333.122N, 0027.819E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 11.97 IN GEN DEPTH 14.0MTRS. SCOUR 0.3MTR DEEP EXTENDS 12MTRS TOWARDS 180 DEGS. LENGTH 19MTRS, WIDTH 16MTRS, HT 2.5MTRS. LIES 085/265 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. SMALL, PARTIALLY INTACT WK. (GARDLINE, HI 1419). AMEND WK 11.9MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: SMALL BURIED WK

Position: 53 33.122 N,0 27.819 E

 

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