This is the information page about the shipwreck Lady cory-wright, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 42.471 N,5 16.394 W (49.707850, -5.273233)

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 CORY-WRIGHT

Length 94.5 meter, width: 13.4 meter, draught: 6.1, tonnage 2516 ton
Load: armament

Cause: built in 1906 by s p austin & son and owned at the time of loss by cory colliers, was torpedoed and sunk by german submarine uc-17 14m ssw from the lizard. passage plymouth for malta. 39 lives lost. (ll ww1, ww1sl, dods & shipwreck index of the british isles). cargo included 370 depth charges type d, 1000 primers b.e., 2100 detonators torpedo and 2762 mines, spherical. (a c crothall).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 87 meter, Height above seabed: 80 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2009

Details measurements/cartography: SANK 14M SSW OF LIZARD. (WW1SL). H1270/73 24.11.77 WK LOCATED 10.8.77 IN 494240N, 051605W USING DECCA. (T E CAKEBREAD, 13.8.77). E/S TRACE SUPPLIED BUT DEPTHS NOT INDICATED. INS AS WK USC 80MTRS. BR STD. H2979/74 11.5.78 SEVERAL REPD FASTENERS CONFIRMING WK. TRAWL AND TRAWL DOOR REPD LOST. (E GILES, 3.2.77). H1310/80 15.5.80 FASTENER REPD IN 494230N, 051545W. H1310/82/21 3.8.82 WK, STANDING 6MTRS HIGH, IN 494315N, 051611W. (S N GLINSKI, 15.7.82). HH090/430/01 13.7.89 EXAM'D 7.2.89 IN 494226N, 061620W [OGB] USING HYPERFIX. LEAST E/S DEPTH 73 IN GEN DEPTH 87MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 10MTRS, LENGTH 85MTRS. LARGE, WELL BROKEN UP WK, LYING 080/260DEGS. A MAST OR SOME OTHER PROJECTION IS APPARENT FROM DCS3 TRACE. PRODUCED LARGE MAGNETOMETER RESPONSE. POSN IS MARKED BY SEVERAL POT FLOATS. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 430). AMEND TO WK 73MTRS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 2234/89. 21.5.09 [EUT] POSN: 4942.471N, 0516.394W. NE 2565. 14.9.09 DIVED ON 13.9.09. CONFIRMED AS LADY CORY-WRIGHT FROM CARGO. LARGE NUMBER OF UNEXPLODED MINES AND DETONATORS VISIBLE IN HOLD. VESSEL HAS BEEN BLOWN OPEN. (GIFFORD POUND, TELECON 14.9.09)
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP, PROBABLE MAST

Position: 49 42.471 N,5 16.394 W

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