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 (49.520666666667, -2.4196666666667)

 

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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. Adamandios georgandis (possibly)
2. Agenoria
3. Agrion
4. Altair
5. Ambassadrice
6. Antonis g lemos (probably)
7. Armas
8. Baden
9. Beatrice maud
10. Beauport
11. Belle colombe
12. Bess mitchell
13. Bizon (possibly)
14. Bohera
15. Bonafide
16. Bremenry
17. Brighton
18. British influence
19. Bronte (ex-war coney)
20. Buchanness
21. Cab
22. Cabo villano
23. Calvados
24. Cap horn des mers
25. Carpathia
26. Carrouest one (possibly)
27. Carrouest one (possibly)
28. Cid
29. Citta de bari
30. Clarrie
31. Constantia s (after part)(possibly)
32. Constantia s (after part)(possibly)
33. Constantia s (fwd part)
34. Corail
35. Dambuster
36. Discovery
37. Dr rudolf wahrendorff
38. Edirne
39. Eika
40. Eleni stathatou
41. Ella
42. Emily eveson
43. Empress
44. Felix de abasolo
45. Fermain
46. Finnborg
47. Ford power
48. Foreland
49. Forth
50. Gairsoppa
51. Ginette
52. Guilding star
53. Hms ashanti (bow section)
54. Hms ashanti (stern section)
55. Hms dragon
56. Hms edgehill
57. Hms rhyl
58. Hms viper
59. Hopper
60. Ievoli sun
61. Isis
62. Josef joham (stern half) (probably)
63. Joseph and margaret
64. Jules
65. Karen folmer
66. Komet
67. La havre
68. Le nord
69. Le poilu
70. Lenda
71. Linn o dee (or linn o dec)
72. Liverpool
73. M 483
74. Mahenge (possibly)
75. Makeshift (possibly)
76. Marie mashman
77. Mary toovey
78. Maud pierre andre (possibly)
79. Mera 1
80. Mersey
81. Mimosa
82. Motorola
83. Nyarlathotep
84. Oost vlaanderen
85. Pan
86. Pembroke
87. Pendragon b
88. Peras
89. Perra (possibly)
90. Phoenix c1/131
91. Pizarro
92. Point law
93. Portsea
94. Progress
95. Pruthree
96. Psi
97. Rabbi
98. Rap
99. Regina coeli (possibly)
100. Rfa bacchus
101. Rhenania
102. Saint antoine
103. Saint louis
104. Solway prince (possibly)
105. Songa (possibly)
106. Spolanda
107. Stade (after part)
108. Stade (possibly)
109. Stanley force
110. Stella (probably)
111. Terra
112. Thrasyvoulos
113. Tipasa
114. Tyne
115. Ullyses
116. Victorine
117. Ville de malaga
118. Waverley

 

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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