This is the information page about the shipwreck Point law, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 42.182 N,2 13.89 W (49.703033, -2.231500)

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: POINT LAW

Length 75.9 meter, width: 12.5 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1542 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1967 by hall, russel & co ltd, aberdeen. owned at time of loss by shell mex & bp ltd. passage st sampsons, guernsey, for the isle of grain. ran aground on le puits jervias rocks. all compartments flooded and began to break up in heavy seas. crew recovered. (msd)

Year of registration: 1975

Water depth above wreck: 0 meter

Known since: 1975, last detected: 1975

Details measurements/cartography: 17.7.75 BRITISH MOTOR TANKER AGROUND SW OF ALDERNEY. AWAITING TUG ASSISTANCE. HOPES OF REFLOATING FADED WHEN GALE BLEW UP. ALL CREW TAKEN OFF. VESSEL SHOWS SIGNS OF BREAKING UP. STUCK ON A LEDGE CLOSE INSHORE UNDER 300FT CLIFFS. (LL, 16.7.75). 17.7.75 ATTEMPTS TO REFLOAT CALLED OFF BECAUSE OF GALES AND HEAVY SEAS. NO CHANCE OF PULLING VESSEL OFF OR SALVING HULL. (LL, 17.7.75). H4791/1 9.12.75 POSN REPORTED 494214.5N, 021348W [EUR]. (HBR MASTER, ALDERNEY, HN DTD 23.10.75). INS AS ST. BR STD. H4946/75 10.12.75 WRECK LIES RIGHT UNDER VERY STEEP CLIFF. BOW OUT OF WATER, STERN NEARLY UNDER WATER. (HMS HERALD, OBLIQUE HELICOPTER PHOTOGRAPH DTD 14.10.75). 11.5.81 NOT VISIBLE. (PHOTOPLOT PG 1592-LP1). NC. 31.8.06 WGD POSN: 4942.182N, 0213.890W. NE 60 [3RD EDN, MAY '04].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 42.182 N,2 13.89 W

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