This is the information page about the shipwreck Keynes, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 42.107 N,0 44.821 E (53.5741333, 0.7815167)

 

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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.

 

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30. Keynes
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49. Rebono (probably)
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56. Scotia (possibly)
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60. Sioux (probably)
61. Siri maria
62. Stylianos chandris
63. Trignac (possibly)
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66. Vereingte (possibly)
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69. William balls (probably)

 

Name: KEYNES

Length 54.9 meter, tonnage 1706 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Built in 1915 by wood, skinner & co ltd, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by stephenson, clarke & assoc company ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 207hp, single shaft. machinery by ne marine eng co ltd, newcastle-upon- tyne. passage southampton for sunderland. in ballast. bombed & sunk by german aircraft.

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 27 meter, Height above seabed: 145 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: H0119/40 5.3.40 WRECK SHOWING WHITE MAST 3FT ABOVE WATER IN 534300N, 004700E. (HMS PELICAN, 16.2.40). - PFNM 580/40. H0119/40 1.4.40 POSN SEARCHED BY TH BUT NOTHING WAS LOCATED. (TH 23.3.40). H0259/40 14.5.40 INS AS DWPA IN 534300N, 004700E.

- NM 1179/40. H0953/40 20.2.41 WRECK FOUND IN 534212N, 004436E. CONSIDERED TO BE KEYNES. (HMS FRANKLIN, SEPT/OCT 1940). AMEND TO WK 12FMS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 320/41. 20.3.72 AMEND TO WK 22MTRS. NC 121. 26.9.72 AMEND TO WK 21MTRS [LAT]. NC 107. H1270/73 6.11.78 DIVED. ENGINE & BOILER HIGHEST PART. IRON PROPELLOR. TRAWL ACROSS DECK. (KIRKPATRICK, HUMBER DIVERS, TELECON 24.10.78) H4465/81 18.11.83 EXAM'D 14.7.82 IN 534204N, 004457E [OGB] USING HYPERFIX [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 19.2, FOUL AT 19.4MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 19.6 IN GEN DEPTH 26MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 5.7MTRS (W END), LENGTH 55MTRS. LYING 135/315 DEGS. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 74).

- NM 3257/83. SEP 2019/000300377 17.12.19 EXAM'D 13.5.19 IN 5342.107N 0044.821E [WGD]. LEAST WCD DEPTH 20.40 MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 27 MTRS, HT 6.8 MTRS, LENGTH 91 MTRS, WIDTH 24 MTRS, ORIENTATION 145 DEGS. PARTIALLY BURIED WRECK, BOW AND STERN COLLAPSED, CYLINDRICAL STRUCTURES AT CENTRE. (CLINTON MARINE, HI 1596). AMEND DW 20.4 MTRS IN REVISED POSITION.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 42.107 N,0 44.821 E

 

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