This is the information page about the shipwreck Sagacity, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 33.951 N,0 3.989 E (53.56915, 0.0936)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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: SAGACITY
Length 46.6 meter, width: 8.5 meter, draught: 3, tonnage 490 ton
Load: grain
Cause: Built in 1936 by g brown & co, greenock. owned at time of loss by f t everard & sons ltd. 5 cylinder oil engine of 72hp, single shaft. machinery aft by newbury diesel co ltd. passage king's lynn for the tyne. cargo wheat. mined. later dispersed.
Year of registration: 1940
Water depth above wreck: 13 meter
Known since: 1940, last detected: 1993
Details measurements/cartography: H0990/40 28.1.41 ST LYING ON SIDE 355DEGS, 550YDS FROM BULL SAND FORT. SHOWING 4FT ABOVE MLWS. (HMS BEAVER I, 30.10.40).
- NM 179/41. H03318/41 17.12.41 DW IN 533357N, 0000405E. (ADMIRALTY).
- NM 2991/41. H4984/47 13.10.47 NOW NDW. (HMS SCOTT).
- NM 2660/47. H4984/47 28.1.48 POSN 533357N, 000405E, OR 247.75DEGS, 2.013M FROM SPURN LT HO. SWEPT TO 23FT. (HMS SCOTT 1946-1947). NC 1188. 29.8.96 SHOWN IN 533356N, 000405.5E ON HUMBER 8 [EDN 17]. NE 1188.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 53 33.951 N,0 3.989 E