This is the information page about the shipwreck Virgilia, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 45.706 N,2 10.049 E (52.7504, 2.0371)

 

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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. Abeona
2. Atle
3. Avonwood
4. Begona no 5
5. Blacktoft (possibly)
6. Bovey tracy
7. Boy karl
8. Castle galleon
9. City of kobe
10. Continental coaster (probably)
11. Corbrook
12. Cormead
13. Crichtoun
14. Cross sand ltv
15. Dashwood
16. El dorado
17. Eleni v (bow section)
18. English trader
19. Excellenz mehnert
20. Galatea (possibly)
21. George fisher
22. Girl linda
23. Glen tilt (possibly)
24. Glynn
25. Goodwood (possibly)
26. Hamsterley
27. Helena
28. Hms bracklyn (possibly)
29. Hms exmoor
30. Hms fontenoy
31. Hms glen prosen
32. Hms ocean plough (possibly)
33. Hms pelton (probably)
34. Hms speeton (possibly)
35. Hms tettenhall
36. Hms tranio
37. Hms true accord (probably)
38. Hmsm d5
39. Horseferry (probably)
40. Hullman
41. Ionian (probably)
42. Kentwood (probably)
43. Knitsley (part of)(probably)
44. Knitsley (possibly)
45. Langeli (possibly)
46. Leopold ii
47. Liliane (possibly)
48. Lindisfarne (probably)
49. Lingfield
50. Mascota (possibly)
51. Memento (possibly)
52. Merchant
53. Navarra (possibly)
54. Nereus
55. Newland (possibly)
56. Nordborg (possibly)
57. Noreen
58. Oil trader
59. Onto
60. Otis tarda
61. Philipp m
62. Pluton
63. Prosper
64. Quest
65. Robin iv
66. Robrix
67. Rogate
68. Roine
69. Rokos vergottis
70. Rye
71. Silksworth hall (probably).
72. Stanmount
73. Strive
74. Togston
75. Tregantle (possibly)
76. Trevethoe
77. U 13 (probably)
78. Vanguard
79. Vigia
80. Virgilia
81. Waldinge
82. War mehtar
83. Waterloo
84. Yewvalley (possibly)

 

Name: VIRGILIA

Length 125 meter, width: 16.5 meter, draught: 9.1, tonnage 5723 ton

Cause: Torpedoed and set on fire by e-boat with the loss of 23 lives.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 49 meter, Height above seabed: 114 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 20181226

Details measurements/cartography: H04100/41 26.11.41 TORPEDOED BY E BOAT LYING IN 23FMS. HEADING NE, LIST TO PORT OF 75DEGS. FOREPART FROM STEM TO FOREMAST SHOWING ABOVE WATER. BOWS 37FT ABOVE MLWS. ANOTHER PIECE OF WK LIES ABOUT 300YDS SW FROM MAIN PORTION. POSN 2300YDS 028DEGS FROM HEARTY KNOLL BUOY. (FOIC YARMOUTH, 26.11.41). H04100/41 5.12.41 SUNK BY GUNFIRE. SWEPT CLEAR 44FT MLWS. (FOIC YARMOUTH 5.12.41). H04100/41 6.1.42 INS AS NDW.

- NM 30/42. H5898/51 16.10.51 EXAM'D 5.9.51 IN 524539N, 021013E. SWEPT CLEAR AT 86FT, FOUL AT 87FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 92FT IN GEN DEPTH 126FT. HEIGHT ABOVE SEABED 40FT. LIES 140/320DEGS. LENGTH 360FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 16.10.51). AMEND TO WK 14FMS.

- NM ACTION. 24.3.61 AMEND TO SW 14FMS. NC 1504. H3730/69 18.9.69 NOT FOUND DURING GENERAL SONAR SEARCH OF AREA. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 47/69). H2233/71 25.1.71 EXAM'D IN 524547N, 021006E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP].SWEPT CLEAR 29MTRS, FOUL 29.2MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 29.4MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 40MTRS. SCOUR 46.2MTRS. CLEARLY VISIBLE SURFACE SWIRL. (HMS EGERIA, HI 12, 27.8.70). AMEND TO SW 15FMS 5FT IN REVISED POSN. .C 1504. H4398/71 16.9.71 EXAM'D IN 524557N, 021006E [OFB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 28.0MTRS, FOUL 29.0MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 28.8MTRS. NO SCOUR. WRECK LIES NW/SE, ABOUT 600FT LONG. (HMS ENTERPRISE, 23.6.71). AMEND TO SW 15FMS 2FT. LC 1504. H4629/71 21.12.71 LYING ON STARBOARD SIDE(?). (COSAG, 30.11.71). 26.3.73 AMEND TO SW 28MTRS. NC 106. HH090/616/01 15.9.94 EXAM'D 27.7.94 IN 524541.3N, 021007.0E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR 30.9, FOUL 31.4MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 30.8 IN GEN DEPTH 40MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 50MTRS. DCS3 HT 11.7MTRS. LENGTH 120MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS. LIES 115/295 DEGS. (GARDLINE, HI 616). SEP 2020/000100123 14.05.20 EXAM'D 26.12.18 IN 5245.706N, 0210.049E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 33.25MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 49MTRS, LENGTH 130.5MTRS, WIDTH 24MTRS, HT 15.9MTRS, ORIENTATION 114/294 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 220MTRS, WIDTH 71MTRS, 13MTRS DEEP TOWARDS 156 DEGS. WRECK PARTLY INTACT WITH CENTRAL SECTION,THE BOW AND STERN PROMINENT. WTECK PARTLY BURIED BY SAND WAVES. (MERITAITO, HI 1580). AMEND NDW 33MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT

Position: 52 45.706 N,2 10.049 E

 

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