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. Ac 9
2. Airdrie (possibly)
3. Amelie-mathilde
4. Amenity
5. Arduity
6. Argo
7. Audacity
8. B o borjesson
9. Benmacdhui
10. Box hill
11. British councillor
12. British prince
13. Cadmus
14. Capitaine edmond laborie
15. Catford
16. Cecil (possibly)
17. City of birmingham
18. Corinth (possibly)
19. Corland
20. Cramlington (possibly)
21. Deodata
22. Diana
23. Dido
24. Dunsany
25. Egret
26. Empress (probably)
27. Ethel (possibly)
28. Exmoor
29. Fane
30. Faunus
31. Fermo
32. Flourish
33. Fowberry tower (part)
34. Fowberry tower (part)
35. Freidig (possibly)
36. Fryken
37. Gerhardt (possibly)
38. Girl kitty (possibly)
39. Giuseppe
40. Gladeto
41. Gluckauf (possibly)
42. Gothic
43. Grangemouth
44. Harlech
45. Heimland
46. Hms benvolio
47. Hms botanic
48. Hms calverton
49. Hms corfield
50. Hms cortina
51. Hms dervish
52. Hms egret
53. Hms kos xvi (probably)
54. Hms lormont
55. Hms princess victoria
56. Hms strathborve (part)
57. Hms susarion
58. Hms warland (possibly)
59. Homer
60. Ightham (possibly)
61. Inge marguerite (possibly)
62. Ionic (probably)
63. Jane (possibly)
64. Janet helen (possibly)
65. Jersey (probably)
66. Katina bulgari
67. Keynes
68. Kimberley (possibly)
69. Konstantinos hadjipateras
70. Kyma
71. Ladas (possibly)
72. Lancaster (possibly)
73. Lightship no 83
74. Lincolnshire time and tide bell
75. Lindy sue
76. Lord selborne
77. Lottie (possibly)
78. Lucerne
79. Lutha
80. Maggie
81. Magnolia
82. Marie dawn
83. Marshall (probably)
84. Matanuska (probably)
85. Merchiston
86. Modig
87. Modiva (possibly)
88. Nautilus
89. Nimrod
90. Onesta
91. Ophir ii (possibly)
92. Orsa
93. Paraciers
94. Petroswift
95. Pilsudski
96. Polzella (possibly)
97. Portia
98. Rado (possibly)
99. Ravonia (part)
100. Ravonia (part) (possibly)
101. Rayford
102. Revello
103. Revi
104. Revigo (possibly)
105. Rhuys
106. Rievaulx abbey
107. Rivaulx
108. River don (part of)(probably)
109. Rivergate
110. Rosebud (possibly)
111. Royston
112. Salacon
113. Salmondby
114. Saltoun
115. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
116. Schieland (possibly)
117. Scotia (possibly)
118. Sea pearl
119. Sota eduardo
120. Stylianos chandris
121. Thessaly
122. Trignac (possibly)
123. Upminster (possibly)
124. Vechstroom
125. Venture (possibly)
126. Vereingte (possibly)
127. Victoria
128. Whitemantle (possibly)
129. Windsor (part of)
130. 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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