This is the information page about the shipwreck London trader (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 35.942 N,0 18.155 W (50.5990333, -0.3025833)

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: LONDON TRADER (POSSIBLY)

Length 59.9 meter, width: 8.8 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 646 ton
Load: coal

Cause: Built in 34 by hawthorn, leslie & co ltd, hebburn-on-tyne. owned at time of loss by free trade wharf co, london. steel hull. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 103 nhp, single shaft. machinery by ne marine engineers ltd, sunderland. passage the tyne for shoreham-by-sea. torpedoed & sunk by e-boat s20. 1 man lost. (ww2sl, sibi et al).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 58 meter, Height above seabed: 18 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK IN 503636N, 001500W. (DNSE 0220/26). H01001/40 9.1.41 SUNK IN POSN 13M STH BY W OF SHOREHAM. (MERCHANT LOSSES LIST, 26.7.40). NCA. 7.8.53 INS AS NDWPA IN 503636N, 001500W. NC F6841. 23.7.71 AMEND USCPA 28.0MTRS. NC 1652. 4.4.78 AMEND USCPA 35MTRS. BR STD. H1965/76 27.11.80 EXAM'D 12.2.80 IN 503553N, 001759W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER. LEAST E/S DEPTH 50.8 IN GEN DEPTH 59MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 2.5MTRS. HYDROSEARCH LENGTH 34.6MTRS, BEAM 5.8MTRS, HT 8MTRS. LYING 018/198DEGS. SMALL WK, LYING ON ITS SIDE, OR UPSIDE DOWN. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 37A/77). AMEND TO WK 50MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. H1310/86/10 2.4.86 LOCATED IN 1982 IN 503547N, 001825W [OGB] USING DECCA. (SOUTHERN MARINE SERVICES). NCA. 24.4.14 EXAM'D 21.3.14 IN 5035.942N, 0018.155W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 50.82 IN GEN DEPTH 58MTRS. SCOUR 1.5MTRS DEEP EXTENDS 500MTRS TOWARDS 0405 DEGS. LENGTH 69.4MTRS, WIDTH 18.6MTRS, HT 7.18MTRS. LIES 018/198 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT. (NETSURVEY, HI 1435). ?INVERTED. RETAIN WK 50MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, ?INVERTED, LONG SCOUR TO NE,

Position: 50 35.942 N,0 18.155 W

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