This is the information page about the shipwreck Lucent (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 57.763 N,4 52.873 W (49.967, -5.1835166666667)

 

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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.

 

1. Adams (possibly)
2. Adolf vinnen
3. Alexander kennedy
4. Almond branch (possibly)
5. Andola
6. Andromeda
7. Arvor
8. Atlantis (possibly)
9. Atlantis (possibly)
10. Bamse (probably)
11. Bay of panama
12. Beatrice (possibly)
13. Bellucia
14. Ben asdale
15. Ben rein
16. Benito
17. Bjornvik (possibly)
18. Bosphorous (possibly)
19. Brest
20. Bretonne (probably)
21. Cape finisterre (probably)
22. Carmarthen
23. Caroline
24. Carolus
25. Caroni river
26. Caroni river (part of)(probably)
27. Centurion (possibly)
28. Cieszyn
29. Citrine
30. City of ghent
31. Clan apline
32. Clan malcolm
33. Cromdale
34. Cyrenian
35. Czar
36. Dionne marie
37. Dispatch (possibly)
38. Eastfield
39. Elisabeth (possibly)
40. Epsilon
41. Erato
42. Eric calvert (possibly)
43. Eskdale
44. Forde
45. Foylemore (possibly)
46. Ganymede
47. Gap
48. Godolphin
49. Gunvor
50. Happy returns (possibly)
51. Hera
52. Hmcs trentonian
53. Hmml 380
54. Hms almond (after part)
55. Hms almond (bow part)
56. Hms comet
57. Hms javelin (stern section)
58. Hms kurd
59. Hms lady of the isles
60. Hms narwhal
61. Hms primrose
62. Hms rinovia
63. Hms torrent
64. Hmy sappho (possibly)
65. Hnlms brielle
66. Ilston
67. Jersey queen (possibly)
68. John
69. Jolie mouette
70. Julie anne ii (part of)(possibly)
71. Juno
72. Karen marie
73. Kerris reed
74. King harry (probably)
75. Kremsertor
76. Krosfond
77. Kwester
78. La suippe
79. Lady dalhousie
80. Lauwerzee
81. Le vieux tigre
82. Leander
83. Leon martin (part of)
84. Libourne
85. Lord snowden (probably)
86. Lucent (possibly)
87. Lydie
88. Mina cantiquin
89. Mitera marigo
90. Mohegan
91. Mosel
92. Mountby
93. Mourne (probably)
94. N g petersen
95. Normand
96. Nyassa
97. Ocklinge
98. Omer denise
99. Penelope jane (possibly)
100. Pindos
101. Plantaganet
102. Poljames
103. Poljames
104. Ponus
105. Port chalmers
106. Queen (possibly)
107. Rigmor (possibly)
108. Rock island bridge
109. Rosehill
110. Shoal fisher
111. Silver laurel
112. Spital
113. Spyridion vagliano
114. Stanwood
115. Sunik (probably)
116. Tregenna (possibly)
117. Tuborg
118. Twilight water
119. Ub 106 (possibly)
120. Ub 112 (possibly)
121. Ub 113
122. Ub 128 (possibly)
123. Ub 86 (possibly)
124. Ub 97 (possibly)
125. Uc 66
126. Ula
127. Veritas
128. Ville de thann (bow section)(possibly)
129. Ville de thann (stern section)(possibly)
130. Violet
131. Volnay
132. War tune
133. Wilhelmina maria
134. Wyndcliffe
135. Zebra

 

Name: LUCENT (POSSIBLY)

Length 76.2 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1409 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,personnel

Cause: built of iron in 1879 by bartram haswell & co ltd, sunderland. owned at time of loss by j westoll. two boilers, compound expansion engine of 167nhp, single shaft. passage cardiff for st malo. captured and sunk by uc-66 20m e of the lizard. (ll ww1, ww1sl & sibi).

Year of registration: 1985

Water depth above wreck: 73 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 2004

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 20M E FROM THE LIZARD. (WW1SL). GIVES APPROX POSN 495735N, 045202W. 4.7.85 4.7.85 WK, STANDING 4FMS ABOVE SEABED, IN 495752N, 045247W [OGB] USING DECCA. (C WILLIAMS, RECORDED TAPE). CHART AS WK 68MTRS. BR STD. 30.8.06 30.8.06 NOT LOCATED BY GARDLINE DURING 2004 SURVEY, HI 1059. 30.8.06 30.8.06 DIVED IN 4957.763N, 0452.873W [WGD], USING DGPS, FOLLOWING REPORT BY LOCAL FISHERMAN. WK IS VERY DEGRADED, BOW SECTION STANDS UPRIGHT, 3MTRS HIGH, HULL SECTION COLLAPSED. 12 INCH BELL, NO NAME, RECOVERED. (G POUND, TELECON 29.8.06) RETAIN AS WK 68MTRS IN AMENDED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, COLLAPSED. HEIGHT BY DIVER

Position: 49 57.763 N,4 52.873 W

 

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