This is the information page about the shipwreck Ole bull, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 51.375 N,1 31.738 E (52.7959833, 1.6965)

 

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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. Aberhill
2. Actuosity (possibly)
3. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
4. Algarve
5. Alice taylor
6. Alster
7. Alston
8. Artemisia
9. Asteria
10. Barrhill
11. Bertha
12. Birtley
13. Boulderpool (after part)
14. Boulderpool (fwd part)
15. British triumph
16. Camilla weston
17. Cantabria (probably)
18. Cardanel
19. Chevington
20. Clan morrison
21. Clansman (possibly)
22. Continental (possibly)
23. Corchester
24. Cordene
25. Corduff
26. Courier (probably)
27. David b summers
28. Duncarron
29. Efos
30. Eikhaug
31. Empress
32. Ems
33. Ethel
34. Ethel radcliffe
35. Friesland
36. Fulgens
37. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
38. Gardenia
39. Geneva
40. Georgia (for'd part)
41. Georgia (stern section)
42. Glen derry (probably)
43. Granta
44. Hauxley (possibly)
45. Hms agate
46. Hms arley
47. Hms caroline moller
48. Hms cloughton wyke
49. Hms dhoon (probably)
50. Hms dungeness
51. Hms force
52. Hms francolin
53. Hms irvana (part of)
54. Hms kylemore
55. Hms m a west (probably)
56. Hms tonbridge
57. Hms vortigern
58. Hms washington (probably)
59. Hms william stephen
60. Hmsm c 11
61. Homefire
62. I t l anna b
63. Ilse
64. Jessie maersk
65. Jevington court
66. Kenton
67. Keymun
68. King egbert
69. La perouse (possibly)
70. Lanterna (probably)
71. Leelite
72. Londoner (probably)
73. Marden
74. Marsworth
75. Minorca
76. Montferland
77. Murdoch (probably)
78. Norman queen
79. Ole bull
80. Osprey
81. Otter
82. Oxshott (possibly)
83. Pacific (possibly)
84. Pegrix
85. Polaris
86. Pontfield (forepart)
87. Prima
88. Regain
89. Rimac
90. Rose marie
91. Salvus ii
92. Seagull
93. Seaham
94. Sheaf water
95. Sitona
96. St mark
97. Tayjack 1 (part of)
98. Tayjack 1 (part of)
99. Teddington
100. Thursonian
101. Trelissick
102. Tyneford
103. Upminster
104. Varoy
105. Viola (possibly)
106. Walkure
107. War valley
108. Welholme (possibly)
109. Western mist (possibly)
110. Westland
111. Whintown (possibly)
112. White swan
113. Winhill or whinhill
114. Xanthe

 

Name: OLE BULL

Length 82.3 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1835 ton
Load: coal

Cause: Built in 1901 by wood, skinner & co. owned at time of loss by westfal larsen. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 149hp, single shaft. machinery by ne marine engine co. passage hartlepool for rouen. cargo coal. struck mine laid by uc-19.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 14 meter, Height above seabed: 110 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2015

Details measurements/cartography: H7452/18 1.12.18 SUNK 525200N, 013120E. (C C N S BASE, LOWESTOFT). INS AS DW. H4325/19 5.6.19 INS G CON BUOY 40YDS NE OF WK. H7754/21 21.12.21 LOCATED 004 DEG HAISBORO CH, 1.7 MILES. DISPERSED - LEAST DEPTH 33FT AT LWST. (TH, 20.12.21). AMEND TO WK 5.5FMS. DELETE BUOY. 23.3.51 OROPESA SWEEP CLEAR AT 46FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 1950). AMEND TO WK 7FMS 4FT. 14.3.73 AMEND TO SW 13.6MTRS [LAT]. NC 106. H1952/80 21.1.83 EXAM'D 19.7.82 IN 525121N, 013150E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 11.5, FOUL AT 11.8MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 9.8 IN GEN DEPTH 15MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 4.6MTRS. DURING 'CLEAR' SWEEP WING SHIP HAD TO MANOEUVRE USING ENGINES AND THEREFORE WIRE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN AT SET DEPTH. ACCEPT E/S DEPTH. (SOISS, HI 22). AMEND TO WK 9.8MTRS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 708/83. H4402/84 14.7.87 POSSIBLE WRECK, 20 MTRS LONG, 7 MTRS HIGH LOCATED IN SAME POSITION BY MV DAWN FLIGHT BETWEEN 4.2.85/1.3.85. FIXED USING SYLEDIS AND TRISPONDER. (K9991/1). NCA. HH242/550/04 30.11.93 EXAM'D 15.7.93 IN 525124.4N, 013151.1E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [4 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 10.7, FOUL AT 11.0MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 10.7 IN GEN DEPTH 14MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 16MTRS. DCS3 HT 3.2MTRS, LENGTH 30MTRS, BREADTH 4MTRS. SOLID INTACT CONTACT LYING 110/290 DEG. (OCEONICS (UK) LTD., HI 22). BR STD. 18.5.15 WK 10.60MTRS IN 5251.375N, 0131.738E [WGD], LENGTH 22MTRS, WIDTH 4MTRS, HT 4.5MTRS, ORIENTATION 110. (BDC EXAMINATION OF CEFAS DS20/DS21). AMEND TO DW 10.6MTRS, NFS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: FIRM CONTACT

Position: 52 51.375 N,1 31.738 E

 

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