This is the information page about the shipwreck Reculver, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 35.168 N,0 5.513 E (53.56915, 0.0936)

 

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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. Airdrie (possibly)
2. Amenity
3. Avalon
4. B o borjesson
5. Breitenburg
6. British councillor
7. Cadmus
8. Canada
9. Carson
10. Chloris (possibly)
11. City of birmingham
12. Corinth (possibly)
13. Cramlington (possibly)
14. Dana (possibly)
15. Daphne ii
16. Dayrian
17. Deerpool (after section)
18. Diana
19. Dido
20. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
21. Dunsany
22. Empress (probably)
23. Ethel (possibly)
24. Exmoor
25. Faunus
26. Femke
27. Fermo
28. Fowberry tower (part)
29. Francis
30. Georgie
31. Georgios
32. Gerhardt (possibly)
33. Girl kitty (possibly)
34. Giuseppe
35. Gladeto
36. Gothic
37. Harlech
38. Hms benvolio
39. Hms calverton
40. Hms corfield
41. Hms egret
42. Hms mistletoe
43. Hms othello
44. Hms princess victoria
45. Hms remillo
46. Hms silicia
47. Hms strathborve (part)
48. Hms susarion
49. Hms yorkshire belle
50. Horsted
51. Ionic (probably)
52. John and thomas
53. John mowlem
54. John rettig (probably)
55. Kalo (probably)
56. Kimberley (possibly)
57. Ladas (possibly)
58. Lifeguard (possibly)
59. Lincolnshire time and tide bell
60. Lord haig (possibly)
61. Lord haig (possibly)
62. Lottie (possibly)
63. Lucerne
64. Lutha
65. Lyra (bow section)
66. Magdalyn ann
67. Marian francis
68. Marie l
69. Meeuw
70. Modig
71. Modiva (possibly)
72. Monimia (possibly)
73. Nar
74. Nimrod
75. Odessa
76. Orsa
77. Otis tetrax
78. Paraciers
79. Portia
80. Rayford
81. Reculver
82. Retriever
83. Revi
84. Rhuys
85. Rievaulx abbey
86. Rivaulx
87. River don (part of)(probably)
88. River witham
89. Sagacity
90. Salacon
91. Salmondby
92. Saltoun
93. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
94. Sota eduardo
95. Thessaly
96. Thomas deas
97. Togston (possibly)
98. Triton
99. Umbe
100. Upminster (possibly)
101. Uralar segundo (cargo debris)
102. Varangmalm (possibly)
103. Venture (possibly)
104. Violet (probably)
105. Whitemantle (possibly)
106. William hanson
107. Windsor (part of)
108. Winga
109. Xavier
110. Zeemermin

 

Name: RECULVER

Length 53.6 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 4.2, tonnage 683 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Built in 1934 by cammel laird & co, birkenhead. owned at time of loss by trinity house. 8 cylinder oil engine of 250hp, single shaft. machinery by british auxillaries ltd, glasgow. passage humber lt vessel for killingholme. mined.

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 2 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1996

Details measurements/cartography: H0945/40 31.1.41 SHOWS 1 MAST APPROX 10FT AT MHWS, 294DEGS, 1.01MILES FROM SPURN PT LTHO. MARKED BY G CONL BUOY 210DEGS, 160YDS FROM WK. (HMS BEAVER, 25.10.40). INS AS DW IN 533509N, 000530E. - TFNM 192/41, FNM 2614/41 & NM 179/41. H0945/40 28.6.46 POSN AMENDED (NEW POSN NOT STATED), MARKED BY G CONL LT BUOY, GPFL(3)G, CLOSE S. (HUMBER CB NM 27/46).

- NM 2206/46. H4984/47 13.10.47 SWEPT TO LEAST DEPTH 2FMS 3FT IN 533509N, 000537E. (HMS SCOTT).

- NM 2660/47. H0945/40 24.10.49 EXAM'D AFTER DISPERSAL IN 533509N, 000537E [OGB]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 26FT, FOUL AT 27FT. LYING ON THE EDGE OF THE BANK IN A SCOUR 8FT DEEP. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 29.7.48).

- NM 2133/49. H0945/40 5.7.60 AFTER TWO DAYS SEARCH NO TRACE OF WRECK WAS FOUND. (HMS LINDIFARNE, SIGNAL DTD 31.8.49). NCA. 20.6.92 SHOWN AS FOUL ON HUMBER 8/12 [1.4.92]. NE 1188. 3.6.93 SHOWN AS WK 7.2MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 4MTRS ON HUMBER 8/13 [CORR TO 7.5.93]. RETAIN FOUL. 29.8.96 SHOWN AS WK 7.2MTRS ON HUMBER 8 [EDN 17]. NE 1188. [WGD] POSN: 5335.168N, 0005.513E.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 35.168 N,0 5.513 E

 

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