This is the information page about the shipwreck Ioannis fafalios, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 8.065 N,1 53.728 W (50.167166666667, -11.000666666667)

 

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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. Antonis g lemos (probably)
2. Ashmun j clough (possibly)
3. Badger (probably)
4. Balmoralwood
5. Bissen
6. Boulgaria
7. Bretagne
8. Bronte (ex-war coney)
9. Cathrine
10. Charles rogers (probably)
11. Chasseur 6
12. Chasseur 7
13. Cheyenne
14. Coquetdale (probably)
15. Dallas city (possibly)
16. Deucalion
17. Dumfries
18. Dungrange
19. Eika
20. El kahira
21. Eleni stathatou
22. Emile miguet
23. Etoile des ondes
24. Eugene schneider (probably)
25. Eugene schneider (probably)
26. G-bagh
27. Gairsoppa
28. Georgios kyriakides
29. Goathland
30. Guernsey coast
31. Hartburn (probably)
32. Hartley (possibly)
33. Heronspool
34. Hms courageous
35. Hms dark gladiator
36. Hms warrior ii
37. Hmsm safari (ex p 211)
38. Ice prince
39. Ioannis fafalios
40. Jeanne
41. Josef joham (bow section) (probably)
42. Kafiristan
43. Kolga
44. Kong guttorm (probably)
45. Lenda
46. Leticia
47. Lochavon
48. Louie bell
49. Louisiane
50. Luxor
51. May girl
52. Mera 1
53. Mersey
54. Messina
55. Miefield
56. Milo
57. Morning admiral
58. Mount myrto
59. Neree (possibly)
60. Neree (probably)
61. Normandy
62. Nurnberg
63. Oiekast (probably)
64. Pangani
65. Pescalanza
66. Phoenix c1/131
67. Rfa bacchus
68. San fernando
69. Snowdrop
70. Sphene
71. Stade (after part)
72. Stade (possibly)
73. Theodoros t
74. Tiiu
75. U 480
76. U 672 (possibly)
77. Ub 37 (probably)
78. Uffe
79. Vera (probably)
80. Vikholmen
81. Waitara
82. Xania

 

Name: IOANNIS FAFALIOS

Length 98.6 meter, width: 14.4 meter, tonnage 3125 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore

Cause: ex-bitinia. built in 1900 by john redhead & sons ltd, south shields. owned at time of loss by s & d fafalios. two boilers, triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage huevla for dunkirk. sank following collision with rfa baccus in thick fog. (d c wendes).

Year of registration: 1945

Water depth above wreck: 58 meter, Height above seabed: 65 cm

Known since: 1945, last detected: 1993

Details measurements/cartography: 1945 SONAR CONTACT IN 500800N, 015300W [POSN +/- 2000YDS]. (AUBD 304/99). H03504/51 24.7.51 WK DIVED ON IN 500742N, 015348W [OGB]. FOUND TO BE A COASTAL SS, BROKEN INTO AT LEAST TWO PARTS AND COVERED WITH BARNACLES. LENGTH 320-340FT, HT 27-40FT. LIES 250/070DEGS. (C-IN-C PORTSMOUTH). CHART AS NDW. SQ. DATE. 23.1.80 SHOWN AS NDW PA ON FR 878 [DEC '79 EDN]. NCA. 4.6.82 NOW CHARTED AS USC 40MTRS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 2450. 28.2.90 SHOWN AS USC 40MTRS IN 500748N, 015348W [EUR] ON FR 6857 [1986 EDN]. IN GEN DEPTH 58MTRS. (FR WK NO 18101021 [AUTHORITY:- BRITISH HYDRO SERVICE]). NCA. HH090/588/01 3.11.93 EXAM'D 19.6.93 IN 500803.9N, 015343.7W [WGD] USING PORTLAND HYPERFIX. LEAST E/S DEPTH 49.8 IN GEN DEPTH 58MTRS. SCOUR 0.9MTRS DEEP. DCS3 HT 9.3MTRS, LENGTH 114MTRS, BREADTH 36MTRS. LARGE WK , APPARENTLY BROKEN IN TWO AND LYING 065/245DEGS. GOOD SONAR AND MAGNETOMETER RESPONSE. (NP 1008, HI 588). CHART AS WK 49.0MTRS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 4010/93. 16.11.98 [EUR] POSN: 500807N, 015338.5W. NC 2613. 2.2.07 THIS IS IOANNIS FAFALIOS. STANDS 8MTR HIGH IN 62MTRS ON HARD SEABED COVERED WITH SHINGLE. IDENTIFIED BY RECOVERED BELL. (D C WENDES, SOUTH COAST SHIPWRECKS).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: APPARENTLY BROKEN IN TWO

Position: 50 8.065 N,1 53.728 W

 

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