This is the information page about the shipwreck Orfordness, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 24.741 N,5 11.217 W (50.27365, -5.4894666666667)

 

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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. Acadian
2. Alster (possibly)
3. Andromeda
4. Angele (possibly)
5. Anna sophie
6. Antoinette (probably)
7. Arthurtown
8. Bard (possibly)
9. Ben asdale
10. Besse (probably)
11. Brava
12. Camelot challenger (possibly)
13. Carasa (possibly)
14. Carl
15. Caroni river
16. Caroni river (part of)(probably)
17. Cristina
18. Dageid
19. Deputie gaston dumesnil (possibly)
20. Epsilon
21. Ezra weston (bow section)
22. Ezra weston (stern section)
23. Fanny lambert
24. Genevieve (possibly)
25. Germaine
26. Gleno
27. Hanover
28. Hemsley 1
29. Hera
30. Hmcs regina
31. Hmml 380
32. Hms lady of the isles
33. Hms warspite
34. Hms warspite (part of)
35. Hms warwick
36. Hugin
37. Humbergate (probably)
38. Hunsgrove
39. Island maid
40. John taylor
41. Julie anne ii (part of)(possibly)
42. Kai (possibly)
43. Kynance (probably)
44. La suippe
45. Lake edon
46. Lake owens
47. Leon martin (part of)
48. Lia'g
49. Madeline
50. Maria asumpta
51. Mefjord (possibly)
52. Mitera marigo
53. N g petersen
54. Nile
55. Norma (possibly)
56. Onega
57. Orfordness
58. Peer gynt (possibly)
59. Petersham
60. Ponthieu
61. Ponus
62. Portugal
63. Prestige
64. Primo ?
65. Princess royal
66. Quarnero
67. Queen (possibly)
68. Risoy (probably)
69. Rossmore (possibly)
70. Runswick
71. Saphir
72. Secil japan (bow section)
73. Secil japan (stern section)
74. Shanes castle
75. Shoreham (probably)
76. Siracusa
77. Sphene (probably)
78. St george (possibly)
79. St joseph
80. St stanislas
81. Stanwood
82. Svint
83. Tagona
84. U 1021 (possibly)
85. U 325 (possibly)
86. U 400 (possibly)
87. Ub 106 (possibly)
88. Ub 112 (possibly)
89. Ub 128 (possibly)
90. Ub 65
91. Ub 86 (possibly)
92. Ub 97 (possibly)
93. Vesuvius
94. War baron (probably)
95. Warnow (possibly)
96. Zone (probably)

 

Name: ORFORDNESS

Length 100.9 meter, width: 14.3 meter, draught: 6.1, tonnage 2790 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: ex-blackfriargate. built in 1906. owned at time of loss by the english ss co. triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage rouen for barry roads. torpedoed and sunk by u-60. two men lost. (ww1sl, ll ww1, der krieg zur see & sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 31 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2012

Details measurements/cartography: POSN 502530N, 050830W, APPROX. (BOT WR 8/56). H2959/73 6.12.73 H2959/73 6.12.73 FOUND IN 502439N, 051109W USING DECCA. IDENTIFIED AS ORFORDNESS. PURCHASED BY LYONESSE SALVAGE. STANDS 20FT [6MTRS] HIGH AT STERN. (E GILES). H2959/73 23.7.74 H2959/73 23.7.74 NO CARGO FOUND. WK UPRIGHT WITH STERN CUT OFF AND 20FT OF PORT SIDE BURIED IN SAND. MAX HT ABOUT 12FT. PROFUSION OF WINCHES. WK LIES ENE/WSW, BOWS E. SEABED MAINLY SAND WITH ROCK RIDGES. (E GILES, 1974). INS AS WK 26MTRS. BR STD. H1310/87/38 20.10.87 H1310/87/38 20.10.87 DIVED ON IN 502444N, 051107W. LIES ON PORT SIDE, WELL COLLAPSED BUT STANDING 10 TO 15FT HIGH. 2 BOILERS AND PROPELLER FOUND. GUN MISSING BUT 12 PDR SHELL CASES RECOVERED. (P CORNISH). NCA. HH100/351/04 18.3.91 HH100/351/04 18.3.91 DIVED ON IN 502442.5N, 051112W USING DECCA. STANDS 4MTRS HIGH IN GEN DEPTH 38MTRS AT HW. (R A MAPPLEBECK, 6.1.91). NCA. 22.11.11 22.11.11 LOCATED 23.3.11 IN 5024.741N, 0511.217W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 26.70 IN GEN DEPTH 31.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 85.0MTRS, WIDTH 18.7MTRS, HT 4.80MTRS. LIES 000/180 DEGS WITH BOWS S. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1157). AMEND WK 26.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 2.2.12 2.2.12 COLLAPSED. BOW BROKEN OFF AND LIES ON PORT SIDE. (DIVER MAGAZINE, MAY 2011). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: COLLAPSED, BOWS S, BOW BROKEN OFF AND ON ITS SIDE

Position: 50 24.741 N,5 11.217 W

 

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