This is the information page about the shipwreck Lab, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 8.126 N,4 9.254 W (50.135433, -4.154233)

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.

Name: LAB

Length 69 meter, width: 11.1 meter, draught: 4.8, tonnage 1118 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1912 by akers mek vaerks, oslow. owned at time of loss by a/b lab. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 127nhp, single shaft. passage southampton for the mumbles in convoy pw 250. torpedoed by e-boat 125degs 4.5m from eddystone lt. (ww2sl & sibi).

Year of registration: 1942

Water depth above wreck: 64 meter, Height above seabed: 54 cm

Known since: 1945, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: 20.11.42 POSN 500800N, 040000W, ABOUT 11M ESE EDDYSTONE. (DSNE 1172). H1001/40 SANK 125DEGS, 4.5M FROM EDDYSTONE IN 500812N, 041012W. (WAR LOSSES TRADE DIV LIST SUPP NOV 1942 TO OV 6353A/41). H113/45 25.3.45 SONAR CONTACT IN 500809N, 040853W. LENGTH 100FT, HT 36FT. GAVE OFF HEAVY FUEL OIL. (PLYMOUTH LIST 840/5, 840/2 25.3.45). H05027/45 4.4.60 TWO WKS FIXED BY HMS HEDINGHAM CASTLE, AUG 1945, IN COURSE OF TRIALS OF EXPERIMENTAL GEAR. [A] 500836N, 040954W. LENGTH 280FT, HT 30FT, DIRN 070/250DEGS; [B] 500806N, 041000W. LENGTH 200FT, HT 20FT, DIRN 050/230DEGS. MAIN PART OF DOUBLE TARGET. (CAPT A/S E ESTAB. FAIRLIE, 22.9.45). 8.4.60 GOOD SONAR CONTACT IN 500812N, 040854W. LENGTH 100FT, HT 36FT. HEAVY OIL. (HMS WILDGOOSE, 20.1.45 TO 15.2.45). H3950/70 23.9.70 NOW CHARTED AS WK 51MTRS IN 500812N, 040854W [OGB]. (HMS WILDGOOSE, 1945). NC 1613. H4267/70 7.12.70 WK IN 500815N, 040915W [OGB] USING DECCA. (MR ARMSTRONG, NOV '70). AMEND POSN. NC 1613. H3110/72 4.1.73 EXAM'D IN 500806.1N, 040909.8N [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 51 IN GEN DEPTH 64MTRS. GOOD ALL-ROUND CONTACT ON FLAT BOTTOM. FINE SAND, BROKEN SHELL & MUD. NO SCOUR. (HMS HECATE, 1972). NC 1613. H1280/76/31 26.3.76 FISHERMENS FASTENER IN 500811N, 040912W [OGB] USING DECCA. (LTR DATED 29.1.76 REFERS). NCA. H4514/76 15.5.76 WK IN 500811.3N, 040911.9W [OGB] USING DECCA. [POSN AGREES WITH H1280/76/31 LETTER DATED 29.1.76]. RUN OVER WITH E/S ON 23.5.76, DRIFTING E TO W OVER WK. HEIGHT OF WK APPROX 24FT IN GENERAL SEABED DEPTH 36FMS. HIGHEST PART OF WK IS IN THE MIDDLE. (T ALLEN, 9.9.76). AMEND TO REVISED POSN. BR STD. 26.9.06 WK IS INVERTED, STERN TO THE SW. STERN PART IS MISSING WITH BUCKLED PLATES BLOWN OUTWARDS TO STBD. POSSIBLE TO PENETRATE THE HULL AT LEAST AS FAR AS THE BOILER. THERE IS NO CARGO. AT THE BOW SOME PLATES ARE MISSING GIVING ACCESS TO THE FOC'S'LE AND LAMP ROOM. SOME BROKEN SOLE NETTING ALONG THE WK. CONSIDERED TO BE LAB. (N R CHIPCHASE). NCA. SEP 2014/000153150 11.9.14 EXAM'D 21.6.14 IN 5008.126N, 0409.254E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 59.37 IN GEN DEPTH 64.4MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 55.0MTRS, WIDTH 13.6MTRS, HT 5.50MTRS. LIES 054/234 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTVERTED, INTACT. (MMT. HI 1454). AMEND WK 59MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, INVERTED, STERN MISSING, BOWS NE

Position: 50 8.126 N,4 9.254 W

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