This is the information page about the shipwreck Kenton, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 54.207 N,1 23.291 E (53.0506667, 1.1718667)

 

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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. Artemisia
7. Asteria
8. Bertha
9. Birtley
10. Blackburn
11. Boulderpool (fwd part)
12. British triumph
13. Camilla weston
14. Cantabria (probably)
15. Clan morrison
16. Clansman (possibly)
17. Continental (possibly)
18. Corchester
19. Corduff
20. Courier (probably)
21. Czestochowa
22. Duncarron
23. Efos
24. Eikhaug
25. Empress
26. Ems
27. Ethel
28. Francois trixier
29. Friesland
30. Fulgens
31. Gardenia
32. George royle
33. Georgia (stern section)
34. Granta
35. Hauxley (possibly)
36. Heathfield
37. Hms arley
38. Hms caroline moller
39. Hms cloughton wyke
40. Hms dungeness
41. Hms francolin
42. Hms kylemore
43. Hms solomon
44. Hms vortigern
45. Hms william stephen
46. Hmsm c 11
47. Hmsm umpire
48. Homefire
49. I t l anna b
50. Ilse
51. Jessie maersk
52. Jevington court
53. Kenton
54. Keymun
55. King egbert
56. Lanterna (probably)
57. Londoner (probably)
58. Marden
59. Minorca
60. Norman queen
61. Oakgrove
62. Ole bull
63. Ottar jarl
64. Otter
65. Pacific (possibly)
66. Pacific (possibly)
67. Pegrix
68. Pontfield (forepart)
69. Rimac
70. Robert w pomeroy
71. Rosalie (possibly)
72. Rose marie
73. Salvus ii
74. Seaham
75. Sheaf water
76. Sitona
77. St mark
78. Tayjack 1 (part of)
79. Tayjack 1 (part of)
80. Teddington
81. Thursonian
82. Trajan
83. Trelissick
84. Tyneford
85. Upminster
86. Varoy
87. Welholme (possibly)
88. Western mist (possibly)
89. Westland
90. Whintown (possibly)
91. Winhill or whinhill
92. Xanthe
93. Zephyr

 

Name: KENTON

Length 64 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 4.1, tonnage 1047 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Ex-flora '38, ex-charles borgne '33. built in 1913 by osborne, graham & co, sunderland. owned at time of loss by michael whittaker ltd. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 155hp, single shaft. machinery aft by macoll & pollock ltd. passage poole for the tyne. in ballast. torpedoed by german e-boat. reached shallow water and sank.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 3 meter, Height above seabed: 110 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2015

Details measurements/cartography: H03990/41 3.4.42 LIES IN POSN 525410N, 012325E ON HEADING 190 DEG. HULL SHOWS 10FT. (FOIC YARMOUTH, 16.3.42). INS AS ST.

- NM 694/42. 20.7.49 G CON WK BUOY CLOSE NE. (THNM 85/49).

- NM 1440/49. H6367/55 11.8.49 DISPERSED. INSHORE SECTION (BOW) HAS LEAST DEPTH 6FT IN GEN DEPTH 9FT. SHATTERED REMAINS STAND 3FT ABOVE SEABED. SEAWARD SECTION (MIDSHIPS AND STERN) HAVE LEAST DEPTH 9FT IN GEN DEPTH 15FT. HIGHEST POINT OF SHATTERED REMAINS STANDS 6FT ABOVE SEABED. (TH, 6.8.49). AMEND TO WK 1FM. DELETE BUOY. BR STD. 14.3.73 AMEND TO WK 1.4MTR [LAT]. NC 106. HH090/543/01 10.2.92 LOCATED 1.11.91 IN 525411N, 012323.7E [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. NOT EXAM'D DUE TO PROXIMITY OF BEACH AND POOR QUALITY OF NAVIGATIONAL CONTROL UNDER THE CLIFFS. LEAST E/S DEPTH OBTAINED 0.6 IN GEN DEPTH 2.8MTRS. NO DCS3 HT OBTAINED. NO SCOUR. (NP 1016, HI 543). BR STD. 18.5.15 WK 2.55MTRS IN 5254.207N, 0123.291E [WGD],LENGTH 62MTRS, WIDTH 18MTRS, HT 2.5MTRS, ORIENTATION 110. (BDC EXAMINATION OF CEFAS DS20/DS21). NCA, NFS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 54.207 N,1 23.291 E

 

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