This is the information page about the shipwreck Lightfoot (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 35.178 N,0 38.923 W (50.652366666667, -0.61618333333333)

 

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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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2. Ala
3. Alaska
4. Algiers
5. Alison (possibly)
6. Angry fish
7. Ariel
8. Armenier
9. Arno (possibly)
10. Asger ryg
11. Atlas (probably)
12. Axwell
13. Basil-2
14. Bettann (bow section)
15. Cairndhu
16. Cambrian princess (probably)
17. Candia
18. Carbineer
19. City of mexico
20. Del rio
21. Donegal (possibly)
22. Duke of buccleuch
23. Fort yale
24. Fpt iv
25. Frode
26. Gartland
27. Gascony
28. Gerarda
29. Germa geisha
30. Giuseppina accame
31. Glenlee
32. Hedwig lunstedt
33. Highland corrie
34. Hmcs alberni
35. Hms apley (possibly)
36. Hms evadne (possibly)
37. Hms hazardous
38. Hms implacable
39. Hms kingston jacinth (possibly)
40. Hms moldavia
41. Hms northcoates
42. Hms pine
43. Hms prince leopold
44. Hms sapper
45. Hms vernon ii (possibly)
46. Hmsm a1
47. Indiana
48. Jaffa
49. Lightfoot (possibly)
50. Lola (possibly)
51. Lowmount
52. Marga
53. Marie marguerite (possibly)
54. Molesey (possibly)
55. Montecrana (possibly)
56. Ny-eeasteyr
57. Polandia (possibly)
58. Ramsgarth
59. Ramsholm (possibly)
60. Rfa hungerford (possibly)
61. Saint andre (probably)
62. Shirala
63. Sines (possibly)
64. Spearfish
65. Stavros (possibly)
66. Syrinx (part of)(possibly)
67. Teelin head
68. U 1195
69. U 86 (formerly)
70. U 86 (possibly)
71. Vesuvio (possibly)
72. Vigda
73. War helmet
74. Zaanstroom

 

Name: LIGHTFOOT (POSSIBLY)

Length 81.7 meter, width: 20 meter, draught: 2, tonnage 1875 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1916 by john crown & sons ltd, sunderland. owned at time of loss by wandsworth & district gas co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 199hp, single shaft. passage london for barry. in ballast. torpedoed by ub-30. no men lost.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 25 meter, Height above seabed: 128 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20180207

Details measurements/cartography: H1633/18 6.4.18 WK IN 503508N, 003854W. 2 MASTS VISIBLE AT LW. (ADMIRALTY).

- NM 464/18. H1656/24 5.3.24 AMEND TO DW. SQ. DATE. H1998/24 20.3.24 TO BE SURVEYED BY HMS KELLETT DURING 1924. H4283/34 13.8.34 WK IN 503516N, 003850W. OROPESA SWEEP FOUL AT 63FT. DRIFT SWEEP CLEAR AT 60FT. TRACING HELD. (CO HMS FLINDERS, 30.6.34). AMEND TO WK 10FMS 0FT.

- NM 1345/34. H02183/42 30.12.47 LOCATED IN 503508N, 003854W. OROPESA SWEEP CLEAR TO 11FMS 0FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 71FT IN GEN DEPTH 14FMS. (CSO PORTSMOUTH, 31.10.47). AMEND TO WK 11FMS 0FT [20.1MTRS].

- NM 3033/47. H2318/74 26.8.75 WK LOCATED 26.6.75 EXAM'D 30.6.75 IN 503509N, 003850W [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 20.2MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 24.5MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 25.6MTRS. (SCES, HI SUPP 102/75, 30.6.75). AMEND TO WK 20.2MTRS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 2431/75. H4121/76 20.1.77 NOT SEARCHED FOR AS OUTSIDE HI AREA. (HMS FOX, HI 52/76). NCA. H1310/84/10 21.3.84 THIS WK IS POSSIBLY THE 'KENNETT'. (J SALSBURY, 7.3.84). NO OTHER DETAILS. NCA. HH091/002/01 29.10.02 EXAM'D 5035.180N, 0038.929W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 20.0, FOUL 20.3MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 20.4 IN GEN DEPTH 26MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 90MTRS, WIDTH 40MTRS. DCS3 HT 2.2MTRS. LIES 130/310 DEGS. NO MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (NP 1016, HI 1002). WELL COLLAPSED, IN TWO PARTS. BR STD. POSSIBLY LIGHTFOOT, PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AS [19971]. SEP 2018/000198963 10.08.18 EXAM'D 07.02.18; IN 5035.178N, 0038.923W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 20.48MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 25MTRS, LENGTH 98MTRS, WIDTH 22MTRS, HEIGHT 4.5MTRS, ORIENTATION 128/308 DEGS. DEGRADED & BROKEN UP WITH TWO BOILERS, (&POSSIBLY A THIRD, DONKEY BOILER), THE ENGINE, &THE SHAFT TUNNEL RUNNING TOWARDS THE SE END. SECTIONS OF THE VESSEL FRAME, HULL PLATE &SOME REMAINS OF THE BOW &STERN, INCLUDING THE PROPELLER, ARE ALSO VISIBLE. (MMT, HI 1498). AMEND DW 20.4MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: DEGRADED AND BROKEN UP. TWO, (POSSIBLY THREE), BOILERS, ENGINE AND SHAFT TUNNEL RUNNING TOWARDS SE END. SECTIONS OF VESSEL FRAME, HULL PLATE, BOW AND STERN INCLUDING PROPELLER ALSO VISIBLE.

Position: 50 35.178 N,0 38.923 W

 

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