This is the information page about the shipwreck Jessie maersk, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 5.941 N,1 24.246 E (53.050666666667, 1.1718666666667)

 

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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. Actuosity (possibly)
2. Algarve
3. Alice taylor
4. Alster
5. Alston
6. Ambrose fleming
7. Antiope
8. Aquarius (possibly)
9. Artemisia
10. Asteria
11. Ayrshire (possibly)
12. Baron ailsa
13. Bertha
14. Birtley
15. Blackburn
16. Boulderpool (fwd part)
17. British triumph
18. Burgos
19. Camilla weston
20. Cantabria (probably)
21. Chevychase
22. Clan morrison
23. Clansman (possibly)
24. Continental (possibly)
25. Corchester
26. Corduff
27. Corea
28. Courier (probably)
29. Duncarron
30. Efos
31. Eikhaug
32. Empress
33. Ems
34. Ethel
35. Francois trixier
36. Friesland
37. Fulgens
38. Gardenia
39. George royle
40. Georgia (stern section)
41. Giorgio ohlsen
42. Granta
43. Hauxley (possibly)
44. Heathfield
45. Hms arley
46. Hms cap d'antifer
47. Hms caroline moller
48. Hms cloughton wyke
49. Hms dungeness
50. Hms francolin
51. Hms kylemore
52. Hms nogi
53. Hms solomon
54. Hms vortigern
55. Hms william stephen
56. Hmsm c 11
57. Hmsm umpire
58. Homefire
59. Hull trader
60. I t l anna b
61. Ilse
62. Jessie maersk
63. Jevington court
64. Kenton
65. Keymun
66. King egbert
67. Lanterna (probably)
68. Leelite
69. Londoner (probably)
70. Marden
71. Minorca
72. Nimrod (probably)
73. Norman queen
74. Oakgrove
75. Ole bull
76. Ottar jarl
77. Otter
78. P.l.m. 25
79. Pacific
80. Pacific (possibly)
81. Pacific (possibly)
82. Pegrix
83. Pontfield (forepart)
84. Rimac
85. Robert w pomeroy
86. Rosalie (possibly)
87. Rose marie
88. Salvus ii
89. Seaham
90. Sheaf water
91. Sitona
92. St mark
93. St thomas (possibly)
94. Tayjack 1 (part of)
95. Tayjack 1 (part of)
96. Tayjack 1 (part of)
97. Teddington
98. Thursonian
99. Trajan
100. Traviata (possibly)
101. Trelissick
102. Tyneford
103. Upminster
104. Varoy
105. Welholme (possibly)
106. Western mist (possibly)
107. Westland
108. Whintown (possibly)
109. Winhill or whinhill
110. Xanthe
111. Zephyr

 

Name: JESSIE MAERSK

Length 85.3 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 1972 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1920 by a vuijk & zonen. owned at time of loss by the ministry of shipping (w t gould). triple expansion engine of 224nhp. passage london and southend for blyth. in ballast. torpedoed and sunk by e-boat. 20 men lost.

Year of registration: 1942

Water depth above wreck: 22 meter, Height above seabed: 24 cm

Known since: 1942, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H03402/42 27.11.42 LOCATED IN 530600N, 012430E. DISPERSED TO LEAST DEPTH 34FT. (FOIC YARMOUTH, 14.11.42). INS AS WK 5FMS 4FT.

- NM 2595/42. H03402/42 23.8.49 SWEPT BY OROPESA CLEAR AT 49FT. IN 530556N, 012428E. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 1949). AMEND TO WK 8FMS 1FT.

- NM 1716/49. 8.3.72 AMEND TO WK 14.6MTRS. NC 105. HH090/524/01 2.1.92 EXAM'D 28.7.91 IN 530556.5N, 012422.3E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 20.6, FOUL AT 20.7MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 20.6 IN GEN DEPTH 22MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 0.5MTR. DCS3 HT 0.5MTR, LENGTH 86MTRS, WIDTH 14MTRS. LIES 028/208 DEG. (LAND & MARINE, HI 531). BR STD. SEP 2018/000159338 10.7.18 EXAM'D 30.3.18 IN 5305.941N, 0124.246E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 19.59MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 22MTRS, LENGTH 65.5MTRS, WIDTH 16.8MTRS, HEIGHT 2.7MTRS, ORIENTATION 024/204 DEGS. BROKEN AND PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE, HI 1515_H102_002_18). AMEND DW 19.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN. SEP 2018/000212985 4.9.18 EXAM'D 30.3.18 IN 5305.941N, 0124.246E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 19.85MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 22MTRS, LENGTH 65.5MTRS, WIDTH 16.8MTRS, HEIGHT 2.7MTRS, ORIENTATION 024/204 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 97MTRS, 1.2MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 027 DEGS. BROKEN AND PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE, HI 1515). AMEND DW 19.8MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 5.941 N,1 24.246 E

 

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