This is the information page about the shipwreck Serenity, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 40.851 N,0 6.589 W (54.68085, -0.1098167)

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.

Name: SERENITY

Length 48 meter, width: 8.4 meter, draught: 2.9, tonnage 587 ton
Load: coal

Cause: Built in 1937 by g brown & co (marine) ltd, greenock. owned at time of loss by f t everard & sons ltd. five cylinder oil engine of 139hp, single shaft. machinery aft by newbury diesel co, newbury. passage methil for london. cargo coal. bombed and sunk by german aircraft. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1939

Water depth above wreck: 63 meter, Height above seabed: 14 cm

Known since: 1939, last detected: 2011

Details measurements/cartography: H8065/39 17.12.39 ATTACKED 8 TO 9 MILES OFF WHITBY. (C IN C ROSYTH, 17.12.39). SANK 8 MILES ENE OF WHITBY. (WW2SL). H4069/72 8.2.73 WK LOCATED BY TRAWLER SCORESBY IN 40FMS. BEST FIX BY DECCA GAVE 544045N, 000630W. (FOSNI, 22.1.73). NCA YET. H2534/74 3.12.79 BAD OBSTN (WK) IN 544104N, 000634W. POSN BY DECCA. (KINGFISHER BOOK OF TOWS, VOL.1). INS AS NDW. BR STD. HH090/554/01 1.2.93 EXAM'D 13.10.92 IN 544050.4N, 000628.9W [OGB] USING RANGE/RANGE HYPERFIX. LEAST E/S DEPTH 55.4 IN GEN DEPTH 63MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 63.4MTRS. DCS3 HT 8.7MTRS, LENGTH 45MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS. INTACT AND UPRIGHT, LYING 014/194 DEG ON LEVEL SAND-RIPPLED SEABED. (NP 1008, HI 554). BR STD. 23.2.11 THIS IS CONFIRMED AS SERENITY. (C RACEY). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT & UPRIGHT

Position: 54 40.851 N,0 6.589 W

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