This is the information page about the shipwreck Uc 75, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 56.515 N,0 8.907 E (53.740283, 0.209967)

 

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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. Acklamd (possibly)
2. Agnes
3. Airdrie (possibly)
4. Albatross
5. Appolonia
6. Beaconsfield
7. Bellerophon
8. Biesbosch
9. Boys own
10. Brabant
11. Brema
12. British councillor
13. British prince
14. Briton (possibly)
15. Cadmus
16. Cambrai
17. Canada
18. Caroline
19. Chant 63
20. Charing cross (possibly)
21. Chicago
22. Chloris (possibly)
23. Commonwealth
24. Corhampton
25. Corinth (possibly)
26. Cyclope
27. Dana (possibly)
28. Diana
29. Diana
30. Dryade
31. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
32. Dunstaffnage
33. Elfrida
34. Empress (probably)
35. Feltre
36. Forest queen
37. Francis
38. Frithof eide
39. Georgios
40. Girl ita
41. Giuseppe
42. Goodwood
43. Graafjeld
44. Greltoria (probably)
45. Hannah louisa
46. Harnis (probably)
47. Helmsman (probably)
48. Hercules
49. Hms akranes
50. Hms botanic
51. Hms dirk
52. Hms fairy
53. Hms falcon (stern section)
54. Hms falmouth
55. Horsted
56. Hugh taylor
57. Hvitveis
58. Ida
59. J b paddon
60. Janet helen (possibly)
61. John rettig (probably)
62. Kalo (probably)
63. Kieldrecht (possibly)
64. Kilrea
65. Kilrea (probably)
66. Kimberley (possibly)
67. Kingston cameo
68. Knuthenborg
69. Laconia (possibly)
70. Lady anstruther (probably)
71. Lady josyan
72. Landport (possibly)
73. Lifeguard (possibly)
74. Lindum
75. Longbenton (probably)
76. Lyra (bow section)
77. Magdalyn ann
78. Maggie
79. Malvina (fwd part)
80. Manchester engineer (probably)
81. Marian francis
82. Markersdall (probably)
83. Mazeppa
84. Middlesborough
85. Modig
86. Modiva (possibly)
87. Mongolian
88. Nitedal
89. Norfolk coast
90. Onward (possibly)
91. Orsa
92. Otis tetrax
93. Our lorraine
94. Paddington (possibly) & unknown
95. Paraciers
96. Peebles (possibly)
97. Portia
98. Realf
99. Revi
100. River don (part of)(probably)
101. Riviere
102. Rosa
103. Saltoun
104. Seistan
105. Sirajah
106. Sna iii
107. Sota eduardo
108. Stanburn
109. Storm drift
110. Tees
111. Thea
112. Togston (possibly)
113. Tredegar hall
114. Trongate
115. Ub 107 & malvina (after part)
116. Uc 39
117. Uc 47
118. Uc 75
119. Umbe
120. Upminster (possibly)
121. Varangmalm (possibly)
122. Ville de valenciennes
123. War crocus (possibly)
124. Wayside flower (possibly)
125. Whitemantle (possibly)

 

Name: UC 75

Length 52.7 meter, width: 5.2 meter, tonnage 511 ton

Cause: rammed and sunk by hms fairy. (ap report, va east coast).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 32 meter, Height above seabed: 130 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20160321

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK IN 535636N, 000907E, APPROX. (U BOAT INTELLIGENCE). H4523/26 16.10.26 NDW PA (1918) IN 535700N, 000900E. (ADMIRALTY). BR STD. H01624/44 14.6.44 POSN 535636N, 000907E. KNOWN TO HAVE AT LEAST 60 FT OF WATER OVER IT. (CAPT M/S HUMBER, 14.4.44). AMEND POSN. LC 1190. 1.3.74 AMEND TO WK 17.3MTRS [LAT]. NC 121. H5084/77 20.3.80 EXAM'D 21.11.79 IN 535628N, 000904E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 25.9 IN GEN DEPTH 32.7MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 3.2MTRS, LENGTH 75MTRS. LYING 125/315DEGS. (HMS ECHO HI 64/79). AMEND TO WK 25.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. H1942/76 9.3.81 SWEPT 3.6.80. CLEAR AT 25.4, FOUL AT 25.6MTRS. (SOISS, HI 65/80). AMEND TO SW 25MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/05 29.5.92 WK IN 535603N, 000858E IDENTIFIED AS UC 75 - PROPELLER BLADES CARRY IDENTIFICATION. (R J COLLINSON). NCA. HH100/351/06 13.4.93 DIVED ON IN 535627N, 000905.5E USING DECCA. IDENTIFICATION CONFIRMED. LIES INTACT AND STANDS 3MTRS HIGH. (G WADSWORTH, 1.3.93). NCA. 20.7.94 WK REPD TO HAVE BEEN EXTENSIVELY SALVAGED: BOTH FORWARD AND STERN TORPEDO TUBES, PROPELLERS AND DECK GUN HAVING BEEN REMOVED. THE CONNING TOWER AND HULL ARE STILL INTACT AND IT LIES UPRIGHT ON A SAND AND GRAVEL SEABED. (B THOMPSON LTR DTD 18.7.94) SEP 2016/000053291 12.10.16 EXAM'D 21.3.16; IN 5356.515N, 0008.907E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 27.39MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 32MTRS, LENGTH 42.9MTRS, WIDTH 6.3MTRS, HEIGHT 5.06MTRS, ORIENTATION 130/310 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 12MTRS, TOWARD 290 DEGS. WRECK OF SUBMARINE SITTING ON ITS HULL, UPRIGHT AND INTACT. CONNING TOWER IS PROMINENT WITH STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (MMT, HI 1473). AMEND DW 27MTRS IN REVISED POSITION.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT

Position: 53 56.515 N,0 8.907 E

 

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