This is the information page about the shipwreck Svint, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 38.509 N,4 57.189 W (50.505016666667, -5.2049666666667)

 

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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. Alcyon (possibly)
2. Angele (possibly)
3. Anna sophie
4. Antoinette (probably)
5. Arthurtown
6. Bogstad
7. Brabant
8. Brava
9. Brisk (probably)
10. Camelot challenger (possibly)
11. Carasa (possibly)
12. Carl
13. Castor 1
14. Cristina
15. Deputie gaston dumesnil (possibly)
16. Diligent
17. Dumfries
18. Elna e
19. Ezra weston (bow section)
20. Ezra weston (stern section)
21. Germaine
22. Girdleness
23. Gregynog
24. Hanover
25. Hemsley 1
26. Hmcs regina
27. Hmhs rewa
28. Hugin
29. Humbergate (probably)
30. Hunsgrove
31. Island maid
32. John taylor
33. Kai (possibly)
34. Lake edon
35. Lake owens
36. Lci(l)99
37. Lia'g
38. Lisa maria
39. Madryn
40. Marguerite pry
41. Maria asumpta
42. Mefjord (possibly)
43. Milly (possibly)
44. N verberckmoes (possibly)
45. Norma (possibly)
46. Orfordness
47. Par time and tide bell
48. Pearn pride (possibly)
49. Portugal
50. Risoy (probably)
51. Rossmore (possibly)
52. Runswick
53. Saphir
54. Sarah anderson (possibly)
55. Shad thames
56. Siracusa
57. Skopelos sky (after part)
58. Sphene (probably)
59. St joseph
60. St stanislas
61. Svint
62. Swainby (probably)
63. Tagona
64. Towneley
65. U 1021 (possibly)
66. U 325 (possibly)
67. Ub 65
68. Warnow (possibly)

 

Name: SVINT

Length 69 meter, width: 11.2 meter, draught: 4.8, tonnage 1174 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-skagatind '36, ex-hovland. built in 1925 by skiens verksted a/s, skien. owned at time of loss by skibs a/s, sjofna. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 97 nhp, single shaft. passage workington for plymouth. bombed & sunk by aircraft. (ll ww2, ww2sl & sibi).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 47 meter, Height above seabed: 123 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2011

Details measurements/cartography: H2534/41 19.8.41 H2534/41 19.8.41 NDW IN 503830N, 045700W [OGB]. (ADMIRALTY).

- NM 1961/41. H0113/45 4.7.45 H0113/45 PLYMOUTH LIST REPD NSC IN 503812N, 045918W [OGB], HEIGHT 20FT ON 4.7.45. HMS DUCKWORTH REPD NSC IN 503812N, 045918W [OGB], ACCURATE TO WITHIN 200YDS. ESCORT GROUP 31 REPD WK IN 503842N, 045912W [OGB], LENGTH 264FT, HEIGHT 42FT ON 7.5.45. (AUBD 321/44). 14.11.72 14.11.72 NOW CHARTED AS USC 15FMS [28MTRS]. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 1178. 4.5.78 4.5.78 NOW CHARTED AS WK 36MTRS IN 503842N, 045912W [OGB]. (ESCORT GROUP REPORT IN AUBD 321/44). NC 1178. H1247/69 17.5.79 H1247/69 17.5.79 WK LOCATED IN 503826N, 045712W [OGB] USING DECCA. SS SVINT ACCORDING TO LOCAL LIFEBOAT CREW AT TIME OF LOSS. (R DAVIS, 14.5.79). AMEND POSN. BR STD. 24.11.11 24.11.11 LOCATED 28.3.10 IN 5038.509N, 0457.189W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 42.46 IN GEN DEPTH 47.1MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 75.7MTRS, WIDTH 14.4MTRS. LIES 123/303 DEGS WITH BOWS SE. NO MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1157). AMEND WK 42MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN, BOWS SE

Position: 50 38.509 N,4 57.189 W

 

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