This is the information page about the shipwreck Langeli (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 41.646 N,1 54.83 E (52.4370167, 1.7918333)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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: LANGELI (POSSIBLY)
Length 78.9 meter, width: 11.3 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1565 ton
Load: ballast
Cause: Built 1916 by short bros., sunderland with 2 boilers, triple-expansion engine of 156nhp, single shaft. owned at time of loss by ellingsen & johannesen. passage rouen for blyth. torpedoed by ub-29 whilst at anchor near the corton lightship. managed to steam 10.5m nne before foundering off the n end of the corton sand. (dods)
Year of registration: 1916
Water depth above wreck: 31 meter, Height above seabed: 160 cm
Known since: 1916, last detected: 2015
Details measurements/cartography: H1787/16 21.3.16 WK IN 524000N, 015300. [HMT REMARKO & HMS FAIRMAID SAME POSN]. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED) INS AS WK [OLD SYMBOL]. BR STD. 1923 NOW SHOWN AS DW. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H4282/26 14.10.26 SHOWN AS DW PD. (AUTHORITY NOT SHOWN). BR STD. H2615/28 28.4.28 NOT FOUND. (TH). AMENDED TO DEAD. DELETE. BR STD. H4852/74 18.12.74 NOT FOUND JUL '74. NO SONAR SEARCH. MIDDLE CROSS SAND APPEARS TO HAVE ENCROACHED THE CHARTED POSN OF WK. MS 47 SEARCH BY HMS ENTERPRISE, SEPT 1974. NO CONTACTS. (ISS REPORT 1974 HI 11/74, HMS BULLDOG REPORT 1974 HI 109/74). NCA. H2054/82 16.9.83 EXAM'D 29.6.83 IN 524110N, 015553E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 21.3, FOUL AT 21.6MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 21.6 IN GEN DEPTH 25MTRS. SCOUR 1-2MTRS DEEP. DCS3 HT 8MTRS. LIES NW/SE. IS ALMOST UPRIGHT WITH LITTLE SIGNS OF IT BREAKING UP. (HMS ENTERPRISE, HI 126).
- NM 2632/83. H2054/82 28.11.83 QUOTED POSN INCORRECT. POSN CALCULATED FROM OBSERVED HIFIX LANCOUNTS IS 524136N, 015457E. AGREES WITH PLOTTED POSN ON FAIR SHEET. AMEND POSN.
- NM 3255/93. 12.2.02 RECORD REVIEWED. AMEND TO WK SW 21MTRS. BR STD. 17.2.05 SHOWN AS WK SW 21.0MTRS IN 5241.626N, 0154.839E [EUT]. NE 1504. SEP 2014/000101130 2.1.15 EXAM'D 23.7.14 IN 5241.646N, 0154.830E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 22.17 IN GEN DEPTH 31MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 65MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS, HT 8.0MTRS. LIES 160/340 DEGS. STRONG MAGENTIC ANOMALY. DEGRADED AND PARTIALLY BURIED WK. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY, HI 1428). GENERALLY INTACT, ?HULL PLATING LIES CLOSE ALONG NE SIDE. AMEND WK 22MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT & INTACT
Position: 52 41.646 N,1 54.83 E