This is the information page about the shipwreck Murdoch (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 40.163 N,1 46.416 E (52.437016666667, 1.7918333333333)

 

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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. Abeona
2. Aberhill
3. Actuosity (possibly)
4. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
5. Ala
6. Alice taylor
7. Alster
8. Alston
9. Alto (possibly)
10. Artemisia
11. Astrologer
12. Avonwood
13. Axminster (probably)
14. Barkis
15. Barrhill
16. Begona no 5
17. Bob read (probably)
18. Boulderpool (after part)
19. Boulderpool (fwd part)
20. Bovey tracy
21. Burtonia (possibly)
22. Bygdo (possibly)
23. Camilla weston
24. Cardanel
25. Castle galleon
26. Cd 14 (probably)
27. City of kobe
28. Clansman (possibly)
29. Claudia (possibly)
30. Corchester
31. Corduff
32. Cormead
33. Courier (probably)
34. Crichtoun
35. Cross sand ltv
36. Daisy (possibly)
37. Dashwood
38. David b summers
39. Db 8 (possibly)
40. Dronning maud (possibly)
41. El dorado
42. Elnet
43. Ems
44. English trader
45. Ethel
46. Ethel radcliffe
47. Excellenz mehnert
48. Fidelio
49. Frumenton
50. Fulgens
51. G and e (possibly)
52. Galatea (possibly)
53. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
54. Geneva
55. George fisher
56. Georgia (for'd part)
57. Glen derry (probably)
58. Glen tilt (possibly)
59. Glynn
60. Gulf breaker
61. Helena
62. Hms agate
63. Hms cantatrice
64. Hms christopher (possibly)
65. Hms condor (probably)
66. Hms dhoon (probably)
67. Hms dungeness
68. Hms evesham (possibly)
69. Hms exmoor
70. Hms fontenoy
71. Hms force
72. Hms francolin
73. Hms glen prosen
74. Hms irvana (part of)
75. Hms kaphreda
76. Hms m a west (probably)
77. Hms ocean plough (possibly)
78. Hms orthos (probably)
79. Hms pelton (probably)
80. Hms speeton (possibly)
81. Hms spider
82. Hms tettenhall
83. Hms tonbridge
84. Hms tranio
85. Hms tugela
86. Hms washington (probably)
87. Hmsm d5
88. Ilse
89. Impulsion
90. Ionian (probably)
91. King egbert
92. Knitsley (part of)(probably)
93. Knitsley (possibly)
94. La perouse (possibly)
95. Langeli (possibly)
96. Leelite
97. Leopold ii
98. Lindisfarne (probably)
99. Lingfield
100. Londoner (probably)
101. Mardyke
102. Maria rosa
103. Marianne (probably)
104. Marsworth
105. Mascota (possibly)
106. Memento (possibly)
107. Mercurius
108. Meriones
109. Montferland
110. Mudo
111. Murdoch (probably)
112. Nadir
113. Navarra (possibly)
114. Nereus
115. Nominoe
116. Nordborg (possibly)
117. Norman queen
118. Novocastrian
119. Oil trader
120. Ole bull
121. Osprey
122. Otter
123. Oxshott (possibly)
124. Pacific (possibly)
125. Pluton
126. Polaris
127. Prima
128. Regain
129. Ren
130. Reward (possibly)
131. Rhineland
132. Robin iv
133. Robrix
134. Rogate
135. Roine
136. Rose marie
137. Roxanna
138. Rye
139. Scotia
140. Sea rhine
141. Seagull
142. Seaham
143. Sheaf water
144. Silksworth hall (probably).
145. Sir william stephenson
146. Sirdar (part of)(possibly)
147. Skodsburg (possibly)
148. Stad alkmaar
149. Stanmount
150. Sunniside (probably)
151. Thomas m (possibly)
152. Tidal (possibly)
153. Tregantle (possibly)
154. Trevethoe
155. Tunisiana
156. U 13 (probably)
157. Uc 62 (possibly)
158. Ui-001
159. Vanguard
160. Varoy
161. Vigo
162. Viola (possibly)
163. Waldinge
164. Walkure
165. War valley
166. Whintown (possibly)
167. White swan
168. White swan (possibly)
169. Willowpool
170. Xanthe
171. Yewvalley (possibly)
172. Yucca (possibly)

 

Name: MURDOCH (PROBABLY)

Length 94.9 meter, width: 13.5 meter, draught: 5.9, tonnage 2717 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1941 by s p austin & son, sunderland. owned at time of loss by the gaslight & coke co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 242 hp, single shaft. machinery aft by ne maring engine co, sunderland. passage sunderland for london. cargo coal. struck a sunken wk, continued on passage with a severe leak and sank inside the n scroby sand.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 16 meter, Height above seabed: 156 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 20170708

Details measurements/cartography: H02494/41 15.9.41 AGROUND, HDG 057DEGS, ON EVEN KEEL. TWO MASTS AND TOP OF BRIDGE STRUCTURE SHOW ABOVE LW. [FOREMAST 23FT, MAINMAST 14FT, BRIDGE 5FT] IN 524000N, 014621E. (FOIC YARMOUTH, 24.8.41). INS ST IN 524000N, 014621E.

- NM 2055/41. H3478/45 27.8.45 AMEND TO DW. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED).

- NM BLOCK. H02494/41 3.2.47 AMEND TO WK 1FM 4FT. (HMS SCOTT).

- NM 161/47. 1.7.50 FOLLOWING DISPERSAL SWEPT BY WIRE. CLEAR AT 42, FOUL AT 43FT. GEN DEPTH 45-58FT. SHOALS, WITH DEPTHS 26-32FT LIE 1C TO SE. POSN 524001N, 014617E. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 15.6.50). AMENDED TO WK 7FMS.

- NM 1275/50. H1333/60 10.5.60 LEAST E/S DEPTH 44FT. (ECES, 1959). H2358/65 2.9.65 SEARCHED FOR USING SONAR AND E/S. NOT FOUND. (SURVEY [K4594]). AMENDED TO FOUL.

- NM 1614/65. H1927/69 10.1.69 NOT FOUND USING SONAR AND E/S. RECOMMEND RETAIN AS FOUL. AREA IS VERY UNEVEN WITH GEN DEPTH 44FT. (HMS ECHO, HI 40B/68). NCA. 16.12.70 SEARCHED FOR USING SONAR. NOT FOUND. (HMS ECHO, HI 7A/70). H1927/69 21.5.73 SLIGHT CONTACT OBTAINED USING SONAR BUT THIS PROBABLY THE BUOY MOORINGS. (ISS, R-OF-S DTD 12.9.72). DELETED. BR STD. H4852/74 18.12.74 SEARCHED FOR USING TRANSIT SONAR. NOT FOUND. (ISS, HI 11/74). H1960/79 30.3.81 NOT FOUND. (HMS EGERIA, HI 62B/80). HH090/487/01 27.6.90 EXAM'D 21.4.90 IN 524007.8N, 014631.7E [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [7 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 8.0 IN GEN DEPTH 10MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 1.5MTRS. LENGTH 45MTRS, BEAM 7MTRS. LIES 175/355DEGS ON FEATURELESS SANDY BOTTOM. A SIZEABLE MAGNETOMETER DEFLECTION WAS OBSERVED IN THE VICINITY. (NP 1016, HI 487). INS AS WK 8MTRS. BR STD. HH090/569/01 13.7.93 LOCATED 24.4.93 DURING ROUTINE SONAR SEARCH. NO DISCERNIBLE HEIGHT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 8.7 IN GEN DEPTH 11.5MTRS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. NOT EXAM'D. RETAIN AS CHARTED. (NP 1016, HI 569). HH090/686/01 22.3.96 EXAM'D 29.2.96 IN 524008.5N, 014631.6E [OGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 8.5, FOUL 8.8MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 9.0 IN GEN DEPTH 13MTRS. NO SCOUR. NO DCS3 HT. LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS. LIES 160/340DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. SOLID SONAR CONTACT. (NP 1016, HI 686). BR STD. HH090/844/01 13.4.99 EXAM'D 12.3.99 IN 5240.162N, 0146.423E [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 9.2, FOUL 9.5MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 9MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 13MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 60MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS. DCS3 HT 3MTRS. LIES 135/315DEGS. LARGE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. PARTIALLY BURIED. (NP 1016, HI 844). AMEND TO SW 9MTRS. BR STD. HH091/110/01 16.8.05 EXAM'D 27.4.05 IN 5240.156N, 0146.418E [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 11.2MTRS, FOUL 11.5MTRS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 10.97 IN GEN DEPTH 18MTRS. SCOUR 2.5MTRS DEEP EXTENDS 150 MTRS TOWARDS 355 DEGS AND 200MTRS TOWARDS 175 DEGS. LENGTH 78MTRS, WIDTH 25MTRS, HT 7.9MTRS. LIES 160/340 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. UPRIGHT. (NP 1016, HI 1110). AMEND WK 10.9MTRS. BR STD. HH091/259/01 23.10.08 LOCATED, NOT EXAM'D. (NETSURVEY, HI 1259). NCA. SEP 2017/000186964 25.4.18 EXAM'D 8.7.17; LOCATED IN 5240.163N, 0146.416E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 11.42MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 16MTRS. LENGTH 53.2MTRS, WIDTH 20.2MTRS, HEIGHT 10.94MTRS, ORIENTATION 156/336 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 223.1MTRS DEPTH 6.23MTRS TOWARDS 003DEGS. WK GENERALLY RETAINS FOOTPRINT, HULL HAS COLLAPSED, EXPOSING DECAYED INTERNAL STRUCTURE- IRREGULAR, ANGULAR REGTANGULAR AND CYLINDRICAL FEATURES. [EGS, HI 1545]. AMEND DW 11.4MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 40.163 N,1 46.416 E

 

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