This is the information page about the shipwreck Norfolk coast, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 59.899 N,0 26.059 E (53.7402833, 0.2099667)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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: NORFOLK COAST
Length 59.4 meter, width: 9.2 meter, draught: 3.5, tonnage 982 ton
Load: ballast
Cause: Built in 1910 by w harkeses & son ltd, middlesbrough. owned at time of loss by powell, bacon & hugh lines ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 128hp, single shaft. machinery aft by richardsons, westgarth & co ltd. passage rouen for the tyne. in ballast. torpedoed by ub-80. eight men lost.
Year of registration: 1918
Water depth above wreck: 50 meter, Height above seabed: 60 cm
Known since: 1918, last detected: 2008
Details measurements/cartography: 1.7.18 SUNK NORTH OF HUMBER (BOT). 28.6.18 POSN 535600N, 002800E. (CAPT D). POSN 534000N, 002800E. (FLAG CAPT, VAEC REPORT). POSN 23M SE FROM FLAMBOROUGH HEAD. 10.4.24 INS DW IN PA 534000N, 002800E. H01624/44 29.7.44 DELETED.
- NM 1612/44. H4064/85 22.8.86 EXAM'D IN 535953N, 002610E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 43.5MTRS. LENGTH 70MTRS. LYING 115/295 DEG, IN TWO PARTS. (UDI GROUP LTD, HN FOR HI 321A). INS AS WK 43MTRS. BR STD. H4064/85 14.1.87 EXAM'D 20.6.86 IN GEN DEPTH 50MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 0.6MTR. DCS3 HT 2.2MTRS. (UDI, H525). NFA. 28.9.93 OBSTN IN 535954N, 002604.2E [OGB]. POSN BY DECCA. (KINGFISHER ICES 4B-82 [1992 EDN]). CLOSE NW OF WK. PROBABLE DEBRIS. NCA. HH100/351/18 8.4.02 LIES ON SANDY SEABED WITH BOWS N. IDENTIFIED BY BELL. (A C JACKSON & C A RACEY). NCA. 21.1.09 EXAM'D 2008 BY SUBMERSIBLE. APPROX LENGTH 60MTRS, WIDTH 9MTRS. LIES APPROX 060/240 DEGS. METALLIC HULL. APPEARS NETTED WITH NETS STANDING ABOVE W END. (OCEAN TECH FOUNDATION, SEARCH FOR BON RICHARD). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: STEEL HULL, BOWS N, NETTED
Position: 53 59.899 N,0 26.059 E