This is the information page about the shipwreck Normanby hall, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 43.488 N,5 43.521 W (54.846216666667, -5.7131)
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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: NORMANBY HALL
Length 45.1 meter, width: 6.7 meter, draught: 2.7, tonnage 332 ton
Load: animals (land & sea) and birds,foodstuffs: solid
Cause: ex-empire rancher '47, ex-shelley '48. built in 1943 by j harker ltd, knottingley. owned at time of loss by coppack bros & co. five cylinder, two stroke, oil engine, single shaft. machinery by crossley bros ltd, manchester. passage birkenhead for belfast. (sii). sank while under tow of british tanker oarsman. had previously run ashore in fog near tara, 2m from strangford lough bar buoy, but was refloated. pumps unable to cope with influx of water. (ll).
Year of registration: 1965
Water depth above wreck: 11 meter
Known since: 1965, last detected: 2008
Details measurements/cartography: H3538/65 8.10.65 SUNK 207DEGS, 2.85M FROM BLACK HEAD LTHO. (LLOYDS). H3538/65 28.10.65 LIES WITH MAST SHOWING IN 544334N, 054325W. MARKED BY G CONL LT BUOY, GPFL(3)G.10S. (IRISH LIGHTS NM 22/65). INS AS DW (MAST) WITH BUOY.
- NM 2073/65. H3538/65 20.1.67 POSN NOW FOUL. LEAST DEPTH 30FT. BUOY WITHDRAWN. (BELFAST HBR COMM, NM 2 & LTR 18.1.67). AMEND TO FOUL 5FMS. DELETE BUOY.
- NM 224/67. H5292/71 10.8.72 AMEND TO FOUL 9.1MTRS. NC 1753. 23.1.04 EUT POSN SUPPLIED BY GEODESY: 5443.571N, 0543.540W. NE 2198. SEP 2010/000156213 23.9.10 EXAM'D 2008 IN 5443.488N, 0543.521W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 9.6MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 11MTRS. ONLY SCOUR REMAINS WITH LENGTH 40.0MTRS, WIDTH 25.2MTRS, DEPTH 2.14MTRS. NFS. (HMS ENTERPRISE, HI 1273). AMEND DIST REMAINS OF WRECK 9.6MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 54 43.488 N,5 43.521 W