This is the information page about the shipwreck Norfalk, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 28.746 N,1 3.852 W (49.479100, -1.064200)

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: NORFALK

Length 124.8 meter, width: 16.7 meter, draught: 8.9, tonnage 5672 ton
Load: ballast,sand

Cause: sunk as blockship off normandy. (ww2sl) mined. passage glasgow & avonmouth for st laurent. was to have been used as a blockship. (ll ww2)

Year of registration: 1944

Water depth above wreck: 17 meter, Height above seabed: 70 cm

Known since: 1944, last detected: 2017

Details measurements/cartography: H02724/44 29.9.44 WK, WITH 2 MASTS 15FT ABOVE HW, IN 492900N, 010400W. MARKED BY G CONL LT BUOY, GPFL(3)G.10S, LAID CLOSE E. (ADMIRALTY).

- NM 2099/44. H389/54 10.2.54 BUOY AMENDED TO G CONL LT BUOY, INTQG, WITH E TOPMARK. (FR NM 53 52 26).

- NM 339/54. 11.9.78 SHOWN AS STRANDED WK ON FR 5515. NE 2073. H3898/82 9.5.83 NOW WK WITH LEAST DEPTH 6MTRS IN 492848N, 010346W [EUR]. (BREST NM 83 14 12). BR STD & LATER NM 508/87 [H2340/87]. H1310/84 18.4.84 DIVED ON 1983. WK OF LARGE VESSEL STANDING HIGH OFF THE SEABED, WITH BOWS NORTH. IN FAIRLY GOOD CONDITION. NO CARGO. ACTUALLY LIES 100MTRS S OF THE BUOY. (J COULON, 24.3.84) 9.3.88 WK, LEAST E/S DEPTH 6 IN GEN DEPTH 17MTRS, IN 492848N, 010346W. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1988). NFA. 6.6.90 WK 6MTRS SHOWN IN 492848N, 010346W, MARKED BY E CARD LT BUOY, Q(3)10S, 'NORFALK' CLOSE NE ON FR 6857 [1986 EDN]. NC 2613. HH100/351/04 21.6.91 DIVED 26.9.90. VISIBILITY POOR. WK MOSTLY BROKEN UP. MIN DEPTH OBTAINED 14 IN MAX DEPTH 24MTRS [NO TIDAL REDUCTION APPLIED]. (M R ROWLEY, 8.6.91). NCA. HH100/351/07 6.8.93 DIVED 12.7.93 IN 492907N, 010327W [WGD] USING GPS. LEAST DEPTH 13 IN GEN DEPTH 25MTRS [UNREDUCED]. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP. LIES N/S, BOW N, GENERALLY UPRIGHT AND INTACT. MID SECTION AND ENGINE ROOMS SILTED TO A DEPTH OF 1.5MTRS. STERN UNDAMAGED AND LIES WITH ABOUT 25DEG LIST TO PORT. PROPELLOR MISSING. SUPERSTRUCTURE AT STERN INTACT BUT SKELETAL. HIGHEST POINT - REMAINS OF MAST. LARGE BOULDERS [?BALLAST] IN HOLD. (G PEACHAM, 24.7.93). NCA. 20.4.99 POSN 4928.798N, 0103.768W [EUR]. ACCURACY NOT QUOTED. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1999). BR STD. 6.2.13 [WGD] POSN: 4928.746N, 0103.852W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: IN THREE PIECES

Position: 49 28.746 N,1 3.852 W

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