This is the information page about the shipwreck Keymun, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 1.582 N,1 21.3 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. Chelsea (possibly)
22. Chevychase
23. Clan morrison
24. Clansman (possibly)
25. Continental (possibly)
26. Corchester
27. Corea
28. Cormarsh
29. Courier (probably)
30. Czestochowa
31. Duncarron
32. Efos
33. Eikhaug
34. Empress
35. Ems
36. Ethel
37. Fireglow
38. Francois trixier
39. Friesland
40. Fulgens
41. Gardenia
42. George royle
43. Georgia (stern section)
44. Giorgio ohlsen
45. Granta
46. Hauxley (possibly)
47. Heathfield
48. Hms arley
49. Hms cap d'antifer
50. Hms caroline moller
51. Hms cloughton wyke
52. Hms dungeness
53. Hms francolin
54. Hms kylemore
55. Hms nogi
56. Hms solomon
57. Hms vortigern
58. Hms william stephen
59. Hmsm c 11
60. Hmsm umpire
61. Homefire
62. Hull trader
63. I t l anna b
64. Ilse
65. Jessie maersk
66. Jevington court
67. Kenton
68. Keymun
69. King egbert
70. Lanterna (probably)
71. Londoner (probably)
72. Marden
73. Minorca
74. Nimrod (probably)
75. Ole bull
76. Ottar jarl
77. Otter
78. P.l.m. 25
79. Pacific (possibly)
80. Pacific (possibly)
81. Pegrix
82. Pontfield (forepart)
83. Rimac
84. Robert w pomeroy
85. Rosalie (possibly)
86. Rose marie
87. Salvus ii
88. Sheaf water
89. Sitona
90. St mark
91. St thomas (possibly)
92. Tayjack 1 (part of)
93. Tayjack 1 (part of)
94. Tayjack 1 (part of)
95. Teddington
96. Thursonian
97. Trajan
98. Traviata (possibly)
99. Trelissick
100. Tyneford
101. Upminster
102. Varoy
103. Vera (probably)
104. Welholme (possibly)
105. Western mist (possibly)
106. Westland
107. Whintown (possibly)
108. Winhill or whinhill
109. Zephyr

 

Name: KEYMUN

Length 96.3 meter, width: 12.5 meter, draught: 7.3, tonnage 2997 ton
Load: coal

Cause: sank following a collision with the moringen while on passage hull for alexandria.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 22 meter, Height above seabed: 40 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 20200423

Details measurements/cartography: H0953/40 20.2.41 WK LEAST DEPTH 6FMS FOUND IN 530131N, 012119E.

- NM 350/41. H0953/40 18.6.50 EXAM'D AFTER DISPERSAL IN 530130N, 012128E USING HSA. OROPESA SWEEP CLEAR AT 49FT. GEN DEPTH 70FT. SCOUR DEPTH 82FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 1950).

- NM 1163/50. HH100/351/01 30.8.89 DIVED IN 530129.5N, 012112.5E USING DECCA. WELL BROKEN UP. BELL RECOVERED ENGRAVED 'KEYMUN'. (P WOODCOCK, TELECON 25.8.89). HH090/561/01 4.1.93 EXAM'D 25.9.92 IN 530133.7N, 012124.3E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 17.7, FOUL AT 18.1MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 18.1 IN GEN DEPTH 22.6MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 1.2MTRS. DCS3 HT 3.4MTRS, LENGTH 100MTRS, WIDTH 50MTRS. BROKEN DEBRIS LYING 045/225 DEG. (SEATEAM, HI 561).

- NM 263/93. SEP 2020/000083299 12.1.21 EXAM'D 23.04.20; IN 5301.582N, 0121.300E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 17.65MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 22MTRS, LENGTH 114.9MTRS, WIDTH 39.1MTRS, HT 3.85MTRS, ORIENTATION 040/220 DEGS. (A-2-SEA SOLUTIONS LTD, HI 1673, H525 WI-9196). AMEND DW 17.6MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 1.582 N,1 21.3 E

 

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