This is the information page about the shipwreck Shoal fisher, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 9.945 N,4 48.95 W (49.993283333333, -4.6426333333333)

 

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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. Adams (possibly)
2. Afric
3. Alexander kennedy
4. Almond branch (possibly)
5. Andola
6. Andromeda
7. Atlantis (possibly)
8. Atlantis (possibly)
9. Bamse (probably)
10. Bay of panama
11. Beatrice (possibly)
12. Ben asdale
13. Ben rein
14. Benito
15. Bjornvik (possibly)
16. Bretonne (probably)
17. Cape finisterre (probably)
18. Carolus
19. Caroni river
20. Caroni river (part of)(probably)
21. Centurion (possibly)
22. Cieszyn
23. Clan apline
24. Dionne marie
25. Dispatch (possibly)
26. Eastfield
27. Elisabeth (possibly)
28. Epsilon
29. Erato
30. Eric calvert (possibly)
31. Eskdale
32. Forde
33. Foylemore (possibly)
34. Ganymede
35. Gap
36. Godolphin
37. Gunvor
38. Happy returns (possibly)
39. Hera
40. Hmcs trentonian
41. Hmml 380
42. Hms almond (after part)
43. Hms almond (bow part)
44. Hms comet
45. Hms kurd
46. Hms lady of the isles
47. Hms narwhal
48. Hms primrose
49. Hms rinovia
50. Hms torrent
51. Hmy sappho (possibly)
52. Hnlms brielle
53. Jersey queen (possibly)
54. John
55. Julie anne ii (part of)(possibly)
56. Juno
57. Kantoeng (part of)
58. Kerris reed
59. King harry (probably)
60. Kremsertor
61. Krosfond
62. Kwester
63. La suippe
64. Lady dalhousie
65. Lancaster
66. Lauwerzee
67. Leander
68. Leon martin (part of)
69. Lord snowden (probably)
70. Lucent (possibly)
71. Lydie
72. Mary
73. Mina cantiquin
74. Mitera marigo
75. Mohegan
76. Mountby
77. Mourne (probably)
78. N g petersen
79. Nyassa
80. Ocklinge
81. Omer denise
82. Orchis
83. Par time and tide bell
84. Pegasus
85. Penelope jane (possibly)
86. Pindos
87. Plantaganet
88. Ponus
89. Port chalmers
90. Queen (possibly)
91. Rigmor (possibly)
92. Rock island bridge
93. Rosehill
94. Shoal fisher
95. Silver laurel
96. Siracusa
97. Spital
98. Spyridion vagliano
99. St andre (possibly)
100. Stanwood
101. Sunik (probably)
102. Tregenna (possibly)
103. Twilight water
104. Ub 106 (possibly)
105. Ub 112 (possibly)
106. Ub 113
107. Ub 128 (possibly)
108. Ub 86 (possibly)
109. Ub 97 (possibly)
110. Ula
111. Veritas
112. Ville de thann (bow section)(possibly)
113. Ville de thann (stern section)(possibly)
114. Violet
115. Volnay
116. War tune
117. Western coast (possibly)
118. Wilhelmina maria

 

Name: SHOAL FISHER

Length 56.4 meter, width: 9.2 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 698 ton
Load: machinery and mechanical parts,general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1937 by vickers armstrong, barrow-in-furness. owned at time of loss by j fisher & sons ltd. welded construction. 4 cylinder oil engine of 125 bhp, single shaft. machinery at by british auxilaries, glasgow. passage barrow-in-furness for devonport. mined. (ww2sl & sibi).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 57 meter, Height above seabed: 60 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H0824/41 & H423/41 1.8.41 NDWPA IN 501020N, 044950W. (FOIC FALMOUTH, 23.2.41).

- NM 1785/41. H2839/66 7.2.67 LOCATED IN 500951N, 044854W USING DECCA. LEAST E/S DEPTH 35FMS. SEABED SAND. (HMS MERMAID, ROS DTD 16.3.66). AMEND NDW IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. H3110/72 8.1.73 SONAR CONTACT OBTAINED DURING AREA SONAR SEARCH. (HMS HECATE, 1972). NCA. H3193/70 15.6.73 IN TWO PIECES. S PIECE LARGEST LYING E/W, ABOUT 150FT LONG, 30FT HIGH; SMALLER PIECE 50FT LONG, 30FT HIGH ABOUT 100YDS TO N. (R DAVIES & C WILLIAMS, 25.4.73). NCA. H3110/72 27.11.73 LOCATED IN 500952.2N, 044845.6W [OGB] USING HIFIX. LEAST E/S DEPTH 49.0 IN 58.0MTRS. SEABED MUD, SAND AND BROKEN SHELL. GOOD E/S AND SONAR CONTACT. (HMS HECATE, 1973). AMEND WK 49MTRS IN REVISED POSN. NE 1267. H3193/70 15.7.74 SMALL WK 8FT HIGH LOCATED IN 500903N, 044842W [OGB] USING DECCA. NCA. ALSO CONSIDERED THIS WK MAY BE WK OF 4 MASTED BARQUE END OF LAST CENTURY(?). (MR WILLIAMS). H1280/76/31 26.3.76 FISHERMENS FASTENERS IN 500950N, 044818W [OGB] AND 501004N, 044851W [OGB] USING DECCA. (LTR DTD 29.1.76 REFERS). NCA. SEP 2014/000153151 17.9.14 EXAM'D 21.7.14 IN 5009.941N, 0448.950W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 49.16 IN GEN DEPTH 57.3MTRS. LEAST W/C DEPTH 47.64MTRS ON POSSIBLE MAST. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 47.7MTRS, WIDTH 10.5MTRS, HT 9.66MTRS. LIES 060/240 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. NO DEBRIS. SECOND SECTION LIES APPROX 50MTRS N. (MMT,. HI 1455). DEBRIS CLOSE S OF MAIN PORTION. N PART IN TWO SECTIONS. AMEND WK 47MTRS IN REVISED POSN. SEP 2014/000153151_1 5.11.14 LEAST W/C DEPTH 47.43 IN 5009.945N, 0448.950W [WGD]. (BDC, HI 1455). RETAIN WK 47MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: TWO FRAGMENTS LIE CLOSE N

Position: 50 9.945 N,4 48.95 W

 

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