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 (53.0506667, 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. Ambrose fleming
7. Antiope
8. Aquarius (possibly)
9. Artemisia
10. Asteria
11. Baron ailsa
12. Bertha
13. Birtley
14. Blackburn
15. Boulderpool (fwd part)
16. British triumph
17. Burgos
18. Camilla weston
19. Cantabria (probably)
20. Chelsea (possibly)
21. Chevychase
22. Clan morrison
23. Clansman (possibly)
24. Continental (possibly)
25. Corchester
26. Cormarsh
27. Courier (probably)
28. Czestochowa
29. Duncarron
30. Efos
31. Eikhaug
32. Empress
33. Ems
34. Ethel
35. Fireglow
36. Francois trixier
37. Friesland
38. Fulgens
39. Gardenia
40. George royle
41. Georgia (stern section)
42. Giorgio ohlsen
43. Granta
44. Hauxley (possibly)
45. Heathfield
46. Hms arley
47. Hms cap d'antifer
48. Hms caroline moller
49. Hms cloughton wyke
50. Hms dungeness
51. Hms francolin
52. Hms kylemore
53. Hms solomon
54. Hms vortigern
55. Hms william stephen
56. Hmsm c 11
57. Hmsm umpire
58. Homefire
59. I t l anna b
60. Ilse
61. Jessie maersk
62. Jevington court
63. Kenton
64. Keymun
65. King egbert
66. Lanterna (probably)
67. Londoner (probably)
68. Marden
69. Minorca
70. Nimrod (probably)
71. Ole bull
72. Ottar jarl
73. Otter
74. P.l.m. 25
75. Pacific (possibly)
76. Pacific (possibly)
77. Pegrix
78. Pontfield (forepart)
79. Rimac
80. Robert w pomeroy
81. Rosalie (possibly)
82. Rose marie
83. Salvus ii
84. Sheaf water
85. Sitona
86. St mark
87. St thomas (possibly)
88. Tayjack 1 (part of)
89. Tayjack 1 (part of)
90. Teddington
91. Thursonian
92. Trajan
93. Traviata (possibly)
94. Trelissick
95. Tyneford
96. Upminster
97. Varoy
98. Vera (probably)
99. Welholme (possibly)
100. Western mist (possibly)
101. Westland
102. Whintown (possibly)
103. Winhill or whinhill
104. 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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