Wreck: Lovat (Motor vessel)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Lovat, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 47.587 N,5 38.342 W (49.793117, -5.639033)
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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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Shipwreck details
Name: LOVAT
Length 67.4 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 1093 ton
Load: coal,granular or powdery material
Cause: built in 1962 by nv scheeps v d werft, deest. owned at time of loss by henry w peabody grain ltd. passage swansea for sables d'olonne. took on list and eventually sank when cargo shifted during very heavy weather. 11 men lost. (msd).
Year of registration: 1975
Water depth above wreck: 85 meter, Height above seabed: 80 cm
Known since: 1975, last detected: 1988
Details measurements/cartography: 27.1.75 SANK IN 494754N, 053600W, APPROX. (LL 219). 4.4.75 SANK IN 494700N, 054000W, APPROX. (CASUALTY RETURNS 1/75). 28.4.75 WRECKAGE FROM 'LOVAT' SIGHTED IN 494724N, 053800W [OGB] BY M FERRY 'SAINT PATRICK'. (LL 219). H2590/76 10.3.76 EXAM'D IN 494733N, 053819W USING RO/RO HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 70 IN GEN DEPTH 83MTRS. DEFINITE WK. NOT FULLY SURVEYED. (HMS HECLA, HI 1A/75). CHART AS WK 70MTRS [38FMS].
- NM 808/76. H2590/76 5.5.76 LEAST DEPTH 69.7MTRS FOUND ON CHECKING HMS HECLA'S E/S TRACES. (WRECK SECTION). AMEND TO WK 69MTRS [37FMS]. BR STD. H6501/87/2 7.3.89 EXAM'D 13.10.88 IN 494733N, 053817W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [3 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 74 IN GEN DEPTH 84.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. HYDROSEARCH VERTICAL HT 9.4MTRS, SHADOW HT 10.3MTRS. LIES 080/260DEGS WITH BOW E. HIGHEST POINT SUPERSTRUCTURE AT W END. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 430). AMEND TO WK 74MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. [WGD] POSN: 4947.587N, 0538.342W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 49 47.587 N,5 38.342 W
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