This is the information page about the shipwreck Sea serpent, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 2.123 N,1 11.375 E (51.0759833, 1.4147)

 

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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. Africa
2. Alcantara
3. Alice
4. Amplegarth
5. Angelus (possibly)
6. Atlantic (possibly)
7. Avoca
8. Bobby
9. Brandenburg
10. Cabo espartel
11. Charente
12. Christianssund
13. City of dresden (possibly)
14. Constanzia
15. Corhaven
16. De fontaine
17. Dinard
18. Durango
19. Efford
20. Eidsiva (probably)
21. Electra
22. Emma
23. Emma (possibly)
24. Empire lough (probably)
25. Empress of fort william (probably)
26. En avant
27. Eustratios (probably)
28. Excellence pleske
29. Falcon (probably)
30. Fearless
31. Flachsee
32. Flandres
33. Francesco ciampa
34. G-asad
35. Gad 23
36. Grit (probably)
37. Grosser kurfurst
38. Grosser kurfurst (possibly)
39. Gwendoline (part of)(possibly)
40. Halcyon
41. Henry moon
42. Heron
43. Hmhs anglia
44. Hms aragonite (part of)
45. Hms aries (possibly)
46. Hms blackwater
47. Hms brazen
48. Hms carlton
49. Hms cayton wyke (probably)
50. Hms city of dundee
51. Hms cleon
52. Hms drumtochty (possibly)
53. Hms falmouth iii (possibly)
54. Hms ghurka
55. Hms glen boyne
56. Hms kingston galena
57. Hms lydian
58. Hms marcella
59. Hms myrmidon
60. Hms napia
61. Hms niger (possibly)
62. Hms othello ii
63. Hms peridot
64. Hms rodino
65. Hms torbay ii (probably)
66. Hms tranquil
67. Hms war sepoy
68. Hms waterfly
69. Hms weigelia
70. Hmsm b2
71. Hmt gullfoss
72. Holland
73. Hundvaag
74. Hydaspes (possibly)
75. Ilaro
76. Jacob luckenbach
77. James harrod
78. Jokai
79. Josephine willis
80. Kabinda
81. Kadru
82. Katharina kolkmann
83. Kielce
84. Kirsten skou
85. Koenigshaven
86. La somme (probably)
87. Lacer
88. Lady stella
89. Latona
90. Le tregor
91. Leicester
92. Leila najia
93. Leo
94. Lizzonia
95. Loanda
96. Lusitania
97. Mahratta
98. Mahratta ii
99. Maloja 1
100. Malta (probably)
101. Mersey
102. Milbanke (probably)
103. Monarch
104. Morgenster
105. Mrav
106. Murillo
107. Nancy moran
108. Naranco
109. Negrier
110. Newcastle
111. Niki
112. Norman
113. Northfleet
114. Nunima
115. Ousel (probably)
116. Polgrange
117. Portslade (possibly)
118. Preussen
119. Pulborough
120. Revenge
121. River levan
122. Rochester castle (possibly)
123. Roode zee (possibly)
124. Roseburn
125. S goodwin ltv (lv 69)
126. S.folkestone gate (ltv no.75)
127. Sabac
128. Saint ronan (possibly)
129. Salbya (possibly)
130. Samida
131. Sea serpent
132. Seine
133. Shenandoah
134. Sierra bravia
135. Sir russell
136. St cecilia
137. Strathclyde
138. T s webb
139. Teeswood
140. Texaco caribbean (after section)
141. Texaco caribbean (forward section)
142. The queen
143. Tokufuku maru
144. Toreador
145. Toward
146. Traquair (probably)
147. Trooper
148. U 11 (possibly)
149. U 16 (possibly)
150. U 8
151. Ub 103 (possibly)
152. Ub 108 (possibly)
153. Ub 109
154. Ub 31 ?
155. Ub 38
156. Ub 55 (probably)
157. Ub 56 (possibly)
158. Ub 58 (possibly)
159. Ub 78
160. Ub-33 (probably)
161. Uc 46 (possibly)
162. Uc 63
163. Uc 77 (possibly)
164. Unity
165. Vittoria claudia
166. W a scholten
167. Welsh belle
168. Wheatman (possibly)
169. Will and maggie (probably)

 

Name: SEA SERPENT

Length 68.6 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 902 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined

Cause: Mined whilst en route from liverpool to dunkirk. (ll ww1). built in 1898 by a mcmillan & son and owned at the time of loss by leach & co., struck a mine and sank off folkestone pier. 14 lives lost. (dods).

Year of registration: 1916

Water depth above wreck: 21 meter, Height above seabed: 24 cm

Known since: 1916, last detected: 20160720

Details measurements/cartography: H1860/16 24.3.16 NOT CONSIDERED THAT MAST DESTROYED. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H6345/26 4.11.26 INS NDW (1916) ON CHART 1895. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H2760/49 18.5.49 LOCATED IN 510204N, 011124E. POSN BY DECCA. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 27.4.49). AMEND TO NDW IN REVISED POSN. H2760/49 19.10.60 DRIFT SWEEP CLEARED AT 31FT, FOUL AT 38FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 33FT IN GEN DEPTH 68FT. SCOUR DEPTH 2FT. (HMS SCOTT, 17.5.60). AMEND TO WK 5FMS 1FT WITH A G CAN BUOY GPFL(2)G.10S CLOSE SE OF WK.

- NM 1396/60. H2760/49 18.1.62 AMEND BUOY TO G CONL BUOY GPFL(3)G.10S CLOSE NW OF WK. (TH NM 93 &99/61).

- NM 2749/61. H2760/49 15.5.62 BUOY NUMBERED 3. (TH NM 35/62). NCA. H2118/61 26.6.63 DISPERSAL CONTRACT PLACED. (TH, 19.6.63). H2760/49 15.1.64 DISPERSED TO A LEAST DEPTH OF 46FT MLWS (TH, 9.12.63). AMEND TO SW 7FMS 4FT. DELETE BUOY.

- NM 53/64. 10.9.73 AMEND TO SW 13.3MTRS. NC 1892. H4199/78 31.8.78 LOCATED 18/19.10.77 IN 510206N, 011128E [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 13.7MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 22MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 7.8MTRS. LYING 005/185DEGS. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 35/77). RETAIN SWEPT DEPTH IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. H1310/82/22 16.8.82 LYING UPRIGHT ON SEABED WITH ALL SUPERSTRUCTURE MISSING AND LARGE SECTIONS OF HULL BADLY DECAYED & COLLAPSING. HT ABOVE SEABED APPROX 7MTRS. (P G WEATHERLEY, 8.8.82). NCA. HH090/711/01 22.1.97 EXAM'D 14.8.96 IN 510208N, 011122E [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 13.8, FOUL 14.1MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 14.2 IN GEN DEPTH 20.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 6MTRS. LENGTH 80MTRS, WIDTH 36MTRS. LIES 030/210DEGS. IN ONE PIECE. (NP 1016, HI 711). AMEND TO SW 13.8MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. [DANGER LINE EXTENDED TO INCLUDE WK 21.0MTRS [13487] CLOSE NW]. SEP 2016/000091764 19.4.17 EXAM'D 20.7.16 IN 5102.123N, 0111.375E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 14.58MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 21MTRS, LENGTH 71MTRS, WIDTH 11.4MTRS, HEIGHT 6.2MTRS, ORIENTATION 024/204 DEGS. WK INTACT & UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 1497). AMEND TO DW 14.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, INTACT

Position: 51 2.123 N,1 11.375 E

 

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