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 (53.050666666667, 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. Artemisia
7. Asteria
8. Ayrshire (possibly)
9. Bertha
10. Birtley
11. Blackburn
12. Boulderpool (fwd part)
13. British triumph
14. Camilla weston
15. Cantabria (probably)
16. Clan morrison
17. Clansman (possibly)
18. Continental (possibly)
19. Corchester
20. Corduff
21. Corea
22. Courier (probably)
23. Czestochowa
24. Duncarron
25. Efos
26. Eikhaug
27. Empress
28. Ems
29. Ethel
30. Francois trixier
31. Friesland
32. Fulgens
33. Gardenia
34. George royle
35. Georgia (stern section)
36. Granta
37. Hauxley (possibly)
38. Heathfield
39. Hms arley
40. Hms caroline moller
41. Hms cloughton wyke
42. Hms dungeness
43. Hms francolin
44. Hms kylemore
45. Hms nogi
46. Hms solomon
47. Hms vortigern
48. Hms william stephen
49. Hmsm c 11
50. Hmsm umpire
51. Homefire
52. Hull trader
53. I t l anna b
54. Ilse
55. Jessie maersk
56. Jevington court
57. Kenton
58. Keymun
59. King egbert
60. Lanterna (probably)
61. Londoner (probably)
62. Marden
63. Minorca
64. Norman queen
65. Oakgrove
66. Ole bull
67. Ottar jarl
68. Otter
69. Pacific (possibly)
70. Pacific (possibly)
71. Pegrix
72. Pontfield (forepart)
73. Rimac
74. Robert w pomeroy
75. Rosalie (possibly)
76. Rose marie
77. Salvus ii
78. Seaham
79. Sheaf water
80. Sitona
81. St mark
82. Tayjack 1 (part of)
83. Tayjack 1 (part of)
84. Tayjack 1 (part of)
85. Teddington
86. Thursonian
87. Trajan
88. Trelissick
89. Tyneford
90. Upminster
91. Varoy
92. Welholme (possibly)
93. Western mist (possibly)
94. Westland
95. Whintown (possibly)
96. Winhill or whinhill
97. Xanthe
98. 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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