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 (53.569150, 0.093600)

 

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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. Arcona champion
4. Audacity
5. Avalon
6. B o borjesson
7. Beaconsfield
8. Breitenburg
9. British councillor
10. Cadmus
11. Canada
12. Chloris (possibly)
13. City of birmingham
14. Coastal fort no 1 (part of)(possibly)
15. Coastal fort no-1
16. Cook s26
17. Corinth (possibly)
18. Cramlington (possibly)
19. Dana (possibly)
20. Daphne ii
21. Dayrian
22. Deerpool (after section)
23. Deerpool (for'd section)
24. Diana
25. Dido
26. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
27. Dunsany
28. Empress (probably)
29. Ethel (possibly)
30. Exmoor
31. Faunus
32. Femke
33. Fermo
34. Fowberry tower (part)
35. Fowberry tower (part)
36. Francis
37. Georgie
38. Georgios
39. Gerhardt (possibly)
40. Girl kitty (possibly)
41. Giuseppe
42. Gladeto
43. Gothic
44. Harlech
45. Hms benvolio
46. Hms calverton
47. Hms corfield
48. Hms cortina
49. Hms dervish
50. Hms egret
51. Hms lormont
52. Hms mistletoe
53. Hms othello
54. Hms princess victoria
55. Hms remillo
56. Hms st cyrus
57. Hms strathborve (part)
58. Hms susarion
59. Hms yorkshire belle
60. Horsted
61. Hvitveis
62. Ionic (probably)
63. John and thomas
64. John mowlem
65. John rettig (probably)
66. Kalo (probably)
67. Kimberley (possibly)
68. Ladas (possibly)
69. Lady dinah
70. Lifeguard (possibly)
71. Lincolnshire time and tide bell
72. Longbenton (probably)
73. Lord haig (possibly)
74. Lord haig (possibly)
75. Lord selborne
76. Lottie (possibly)
77. Lucerne
78. Lutha
79. Lyra (bow section)
80. Magdalyn ann
81. Magnolia (probably)
82. Mangalore (part of)(possibly)
83. Marian francis
84. Marshall (probably)
85. Modig
86. Modiva (possibly)
87. Monimia (possibly)
88. Nadod (possibly)
89. Nimrod
90. Odessa
91. Orsa
92. Otis tetrax
93. Paraciers
94. Peggotty
95. Portia
96. Rayford
97. Reculver
98. Retriever
99. Revi
100. Rhuys
101. Rievaulx abbey
102. Rivaulx
103. River don (part of)(probably)
104. River witham
105. Sagacity
106. Salacon
107. Salmondby
108. Saltoun
109. Sandra glen
110. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
111. Sergei
112. Sota eduardo
113. Teano
114. Thessaly
115. Thomas deas
116. Togston (possibly)
117. Triton
118. Umbe
119. Upminster (possibly)
120. Varangmalm (possibly)
121. Venture (possibly)
122. Whitemantle (possibly)
123. William hanson
124. Windsor (part of)
125. Windsor (part of)
126. Winga
127. Xavier
128. Xavier
129. 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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