This is the information page about the shipwreck Lady charlotte, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 54.869 N,6 16.722 W (49.914483, -6.278700)

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: LADY CHARLOTTE

Length 106.3 meter, width: 15.3 meter, draught: 6.1, tonnage 3593 ton
Load: coal

Cause: vessel, built in 1905 by tyne iron s.b.co., newcastle-upon-tyne and owned by lewis lougher & co., was stranded & wrecked in thick fog at porth hellick, st mary's, whilst employed as an admiralty collier. she was on a voyage from cardiff to alexandria. (dods & shipwreck index of the british isles).

Year of registration: 1965

Water depth above wreck: 10 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1965, last detected: 1998

Details measurements/cartography: H( 29.1.65 H(W)809/63 29.1.65 WK LIES 140DEGS, 250FT FROM THE END OF PORTH HELLICK POINT. THIS WAS AN IRON SHIP, PROBABLY AN AVERAGE SIZE COLLIER. BADLY BROKEN UP AND DEBRIS SCATTERED OVER A WIDE AREA. LOCALLY BELIEVED TO BE THE 'LADY CHARLOTTE', BUT COULD BE THE SS 'BROADFIELD', WHICH SANK IN 1960. (R KINGSFORD/CURRAN, GODALMING, SURREY). NCA. H3276/66 9.11.66 H3276/66 9.11.66 DW IN 495450N, 061640W. (RNAS CULDROSE REPORT, SEPT 1966).

- NM 2104/66. 28.2.69 28.2.69 WRECK DIVED UPON BY R LARN AND R DAVIS. CONFIRMED AS THE 'LADY CHARLOTTE'. (SUB AQUA CLUB, 28.2.69). 20.10.69 20.10.69 THE FRONT HALF OF THE VESSEL LIES ROUGHLY E/W WITH THE BOWS TO THE W IN 30FT OF WATER. THE STERN HALF LIES ROUGHLY NW/SE, WITH THE STERN TO THE SE IN 85FT OF WATER. THE VESSEL IS BADLY BROKEN UP, BUT THE STERN AND THE BOILERS ARE FAIRLY INTACT. APPROX 1CWT OF COPPER, BRASS AND LEAD WAS BROUGHT UP FROM THE WK, AND HANDED TO THE RECEIVER OF WKS IN ST MARY'S. (RAF ST ATHEN SUB AQUA CLUB REPORTS DTD JULY 1969 AND JULY 1970). 11.2.88 11.2.88 WK HAS BEEN BROKEN UP AND WRECKAGE SPREAD TO WEST OF CHARTED POSN, MAKING THE WHOLE BAY FOUL AS AN ANCHORAGE. (R LAVER, 1988 LONDON BOAT SHOW). HH230/400/01 7.8.92 HH230/400/01 7.8.92 REPEAT OF REPORT ABOUT WKGE WIDELY SPREAD TO W OF WK. (R LAVER, 15.7.92). HH100/351/19 18.2.03 HH100/351/19 18.2.03 DIVED 28.9.98, IN GEN DEPTH 35MTRS. (J ROSEVEARE, E-MAIL DTD 16.2.03) NCA, NO STATE OF TIDE DETAILS GIVEN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 54.869 N,6 16.722 W

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