This is the information page about the shipwreck Makeshift (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 44.232 N,2 9.948 W (49.520666666667, -2.4196666666667)

 

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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. Adamandios georgandis (possibly)
2. Agenoria
3. Agrion
4. Ambassadrice
5. Antonis g lemos (probably)
6. Armas
7. Baden
8. Beatrice maud
9. Belle colombe
10. Bohera
11. Bonafide
12. Bremenry
13. British influence
14. Bronte (ex-war coney)
15. Buchanness
16. Cab
17. Cabo villano
18. Calvados
19. Cap horn des mers
20. Carpathia
21. Carrouest one (possibly)
22. Carrouest one (possibly)
23. Cid
24. Citta de bari
25. Constantia s (after part)(possibly)
26. Constantia s (after part)(possibly)
27. Constantia s (fwd part)
28. Corail
29. Discovery
30. Edirne
31. Eika
32. Eleni stathatou
33. Emily eveson
34. Empress
35. Etoile des ondes
36. Felix de abasolo
37. Finnborg
38. Ford power
39. Forth
40. G-bagh
41. Gairsoppa
42. Gaspard de la nuit
43. Ginette
44. Guilding star
45. Hms ashanti (bow section)
46. Hms dragon
47. Hms edgehill
48. Hms rhyl
49. Hms truant
50. Hms viper
51. Hopper
52. Ievoli sun
53. Jeanne
54. Johan (possibly)
55. Josef joham (stern half) (probably)
56. Jules
57. Karen folmer
58. Komet
59. La havre
60. Le nord
61. Le poilu
62. Lenda
63. Linn o dee (or linn o dec)
64. Liverpool
65. M 483
66. Mahenge (possibly)
67. Makeshift (possibly)
68. Marie mashman
69. Mary toovey
70. Maud pierre andre (possibly)
71. Mera 1
72. Mersey
73. Mimosa
74. Motorola
75. Nyarlathotep
76. Pan
77. Pembroke
78. Pendragon b
79. Peras
80. Perra (possibly)
81. Phoenix c1/131
82. Pizarro
83. Point law
84. Portsea
85. Progress
86. Pruthree
87. Psi
88. Rabbi
89. Rap
90. Rfa bacchus
91. Rhenania
92. Rombo
93. Saint antoine
94. Solway prince (possibly)
95. Spolanda
96. Stade (after part)
97. Stade (possibly)
98. Stanley force
99. Stella (probably)
100. Terra
101. Tipasa
102. Tyne
103. U 672 (possibly)
104. Victorine
105. Ville de malaga
106. Waverley

 

Name: MAKESHIFT (POSSIBLY)

Length 18.3 meter, tonnage 70 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: thought to have foundered in bad weather while on passage to brittany. vessel is a 70ton, 60ft, 7-9 cannon pinnace [small vessel with sails and oars, sometimes used as a man-of-war's tender boat]. sank whilst on passage to brittany with suppiles for elizabeth i's army, who were fighting the spanish. (nautical magazine, november 1994).

Year of registration: 1992

Water depth above wreck: 20 meter

Known since: 1992, last detected: 1994

Details measurements/cartography: HA141/002/001/04 23.9.92 WK, THOUGHT TO BE THAT OF AN ELIZABETHAN WARSHIP WHICH SANK 1592, HAS BEEN LOCATED IN 27MTRS ABOUT 1 M OFF ALDERNEY. MANY ARTIFACTS RECOVERED. SITE HAS BEEN GIVEN OFFICIAL PROTECTION. (THE INDEPENDENT, 26.6.92). REPD TO HAVE BEEN FOUND NEAR 'THE LEDGE'. NCA YET. HH256/440/02 10.2.94 HISTORIC ELIZABETHAN WRECK, WITH RESTRICTED AREA RADIUS 200MTRS CENTRED IN 494417.5N, 020951.5W [EUR]. NOTE, THE SITE IS PROTECTED FROM UNAUTHORISED INTERFERENCE. (ALDERNEY HARBOUR OFFICE, HN DTD 2.2.94).

- NM 727/94. [NB, NOT REFERRED TO IN ANM 16]. 1.8.94 1.8.94 REPORT THAT DIVERS ARE TO ATTEMPT TO LIFT A CANNON FROM AN ELIZABETHAN MAN-OF-WAR OFF ALDERNEY. SMALL ARMS AND A 1586 MEDALLION HAVE ALREADY BEEN RECOVERED FROM THE WRECK. (THE TIMES, 11.7.94). NCA. 24.8.94 REPORT THAT CANNON HAS NOW BEEN SUCCESSFULLY LIFTED. VESSEL IS BELIEVED TO BE THE 'MAKESHIFT', A 60FT PINNACE WHICH SANK ABOUT 0.5M OFF ALDERNEY IN 1592. THE HULL IS REPORTED TO BE UNDER SEVERAL FEET OF SAND. ANOTHER EXPLORATION IS PLANNED IN 1995. (THE GUARDIAN 22.7.94). NCA. 17.11.94 SIXTEENTH CENTURY CANNON HAS BEEN RECOVERED AND WAS LANDED AT ST ANNE'S HARBOUR. BELIEVED TO BE MANY ARTIFACTS UNDER THE SAND. ALREADY RECOVERED ARE 1000 ITEMS AND 12 'APOSTLES' [SMALL BRASS CONTAINERS FOR CHARGES OF POWDER, SO CALLED AS 12 WERE CARRIED IN A BANDOLIER]. (NAUTICAL MAGAZINE, NOV 1994). 6.12.03 WGD POSN: 4944.232N, 0209.948W. NE 2845.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 44.232 N,2 9.948 W

 

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