This is the information page about the shipwreck White swan, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 33.378 N,1 44.134 E (52.437016666667, 1.7918333333333)

 

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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. Ala
2. Alice taylor
3. Alster
4. Alto (possibly)
5. Artemisia
6. Astrologer
7. Axminster (probably)
8. Barkis
9. Barrhill
10. Begona no 5
11. Bob read (probably)
12. Boulderpool (after part)
13. Burtonia (possibly)
14. Bygdo (possibly)
15. Castle galleon
16. Cd 14 (probably)
17. City of kobe
18. Clansman (possibly)
19. Claudia (possibly)
20. Cresta
21. Crichtoun
22. Cross sand ltv
23. Daisy (possibly)
24. David b summers
25. Db 8 (possibly)
26. Dronning maud (possibly)
27. Dunwich bank wk
28. El dorado
29. Elnet
30. Ethel radcliffe
31. Excellenz mehnert
32. Farmatyr
33. Frumenton
34. Fulgens
35. G and e (possibly)
36. Gasfire
37. Geneva
38. George fisher
39. Gipsy (possibly)
40. Glen derry (probably)
41. Glynn
42. Groenlo
43. Gulf breaker
44. H h petersen
45. Hms cantatrice
46. Hms christopher (possibly)
47. Hms condor (probably)
48. Hms dhoon (probably)
49. Hms donside (possibly)
50. Hms dungeness
51. Hms evesham (possibly)
52. Hms fontenoy
53. Hms force
54. Hms francolin
55. Hms glen prosen
56. Hms harvest gleaner
57. Hms irvana (part of)
58. Hms jessie nutten
59. Hms kaphreda
60. Hms m a west (probably)
61. Hms ocean plough (possibly)
62. Hms orthos (probably)
63. Hms speeton (possibly)
64. Hms spider
65. Hms tettenhall
66. Hms tonbridge
67. Hms tugela
68. Hms washington (probably)
69. Hms whooper
70. Hmsm d5
71. Ilse
72. Impulsion
73. Ionian (probably)
74. Kenneth hawksfield
75. La perouse (possibly)
76. Langeli (possibly)
77. Lingfield
78. Mardyke
79. Maria rosa
80. Marianne (probably)
81. Marsworth
82. Mascota (possibly)
83. Mascotte
84. Memento (possibly)
85. Mercurius
86. Meriones
87. Montferland
88. Mudo
89. Murdoch (probably)
90. Nadir
91. Navarra (possibly)
92. Nereus
93. Nominoe
94. Nordborg (possibly)
95. Norman queen
96. Novocastrian
97. Oil trader
98. Ole bull
99. Osprey
100. Polaris
101. Prima
102. Regain
103. Ren
104. Reward (possibly)
105. Rhineland
106. Robin iv
107. Robrix
108. Rochester city
109. Rogate
110. Roine
111. Roxanna
112. Rye
113. Sea king
114. Sea rhine
115. Seagull
116. Seaham
117. Sheaf water
118. Silksworth hall (probably).
119. Sir william stephenson
120. Sirdar (part of)(possibly)
121. Skodsburg (possibly)
122. Southford
123. St patrick
124. Stanmount
125. Sunniside (probably)
126. Taber park
127. Thomas m (possibly)
128. Tidal (possibly)
129. Tregantle (possibly)
130. Trevethoe
131. Tunisiana
132. U 13 (probably)
133. Uc 62 (possibly)
134. Ui-001
135. Vanguard
136. Vigo
137. Viola (possibly)
138. War valley
139. White lady
140. White swan
141. White swan (possibly)
142. Xanthe
143. Yewvalley (possibly)
144. Yucca (possibly)

 

Name: WHITE SWAN

Length 87.5 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 2173 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built of steel in 1903 by blyth sb co. owned at the time of loss by dixon, sample & co (dods), by swan line (sibi). machinery by blair & co ltd, stockton-on-tees. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 219 hp, single shaft. passage hartlepool for london. dragged anchors and went ashore. crew recovered by breeches buoy. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1916

Water depth above wreck: 4 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1916, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: POSN 523215N, 014430E. (AUTHORITY NOT KNOWN). H4199/25 SHOWN AS ST. (HMS FITZROY 1924, SURVEY [C9544]). NC 1552. H443/30 14.1.30 DELETED. (SURVEY [E1956]). H1623/40 INS AS ST. (SURVEY [E5809]).

- NM BLOCK. H231/55 8.8.55 AMEND POSN TO 523323N, 014416E. (ECES, 1955). BR STD. H3231/55 2.11.60 ST IN 523323N, 014416E BY INTERSECTION. (ECES, 19.4.55). H3231/55 2.11.60 ACCORDING TO LOCAL INFORMATION, THIS IS THE REMAINS OF A CLIFF FALL OF MANY YEARS AGO, THAT CARRIED WITH IT A CLUMP OF TREES. THE TRUNKS OF WHICH ARE STILL STANDING IN THE SAND. (TH, 14.1.58). H1333/60 2.11.60 THIS IS STILL A STRANDED WRECK. (ECES, 16.11.59). H3570/67 1.12.67 LENGTH ABOUT 200FT. PROMINENT POST AT NORTH END. LOCAL FISHERMEN STATE THAT THIS IS THE WRECK OF THE 'WHITE SWAN'. (HMS ECHO, ROS DTD 15.9.67). H3570/69 14.11.69 DRIES 2.6MTRS BY OBSERVATION. GEN DEPTH 3.1MTRS. STRANDED WRECK. LENGTH ABOUT 200FT. MARKED BY PROMINENT POST AT NORTH END KEEL. RIBS AND BOILERS REMAINING. (HMS ECHO, HI 34B & HI 359/69). AMEND TO ST DRIES 8FT. NC 1536. H4403/71 7.11.73 EXAM'D IN 523322N, 014416E USING HFIX/6 [2 LOP]. HT OF WRECK [ESTIMATED] 1.4MTRS ABOVE MHWS. PROMINENT POST AT NORTHERN END OF WRECKAGE, WHICH RUNS SOUTH ABOUT 100MTRS WITH MANY RIBS SHOWING AT LW. (HMS ECHO). AMEND TO ST DRIES 1.4MTRS. BR STD. 28.8.74 SHOWN AS ST HT 1.4MTRS. NC 1536. H4403/71 16.11.79 EXAM'D 18.7.79 VISUALLY. PROMINENT POST AT N END OF WK IS IN POSN 523323N, 014422E WITH HEIGHT 1.4MTRS ABOVE MHWS. BOILERS & RIBS EXTEND SOUTH ABOUT 100MTRS TO 523321N, 014418E. (SOISS, HI 63B/79). AMENDED TO STF. BR STD. H2339/84 26.6.85 EXAM'D VISUALLY AT LW. STILL AS DESCRIBED IN 1979. (NP 1016, HI 249). NCA. H2339/84 15.12.87 EXAM'D 2.11.87. POSN AS CHARTED. POST MARKED ON CHART IS NOW MISSING. WRECKAGE COMPLETELY COVERS TOWARDS HIGH WATER AND NOW DRIES 1.3MTRS AT STERN (N END) & DRIES 1.5MTRS AT BOW (S END). BOILERS AND OTHER WRECKAGE DRY UP TO 1.1MTRS. OVERALL LENGTH APPROX 165FT. GEN DEPTH APPROX 4MTRS. (THV MERMAID, 12.11.87). AMENDED TO STP DRIES 1.4MTRS. BR STD. HH090/513/01 14.6.91 VISIBLE AT LW IN 523322N, 014420E. GEN DEPTH 4.5MTRS. (NP 1016, HI 513). NCA. HH242/355/01 28.1.92 CONFIRMED BY GT YARMOUTH HBR MASTER THAT WK NO LONGER SHOWS AT HW AND IS APPARENTLY BREAKING UP. CONSTITUTES A DANGER TO SMALL CRAFT. (YARMOUTH CG, 30.12.91) HH242/540/04 14.7.92 WK IN 523323.5N, 014418.5E HAS BEEN MARKED BY R UNLIT CAN BUOY, LAID ABOUT 20MTRS E OF WK. (TH NM 23/92).

- NM 2276/92. HH242/540/07 12.5.95 LIES APPROX N/S. BOWS, BOILER AND SOME FRAMES STILL EXIST. VISUAL EXAMINATION WITH ACCURATE TIDAL HEIGHTS GIVE A DRYING HEIGHT OF 1.9MTRS. (TH, LTR DTD 2.5.95). NCA. HH090/734/01 29.4.97 LOCATED IN VICINITY OF CHARTED POSN. NOT EXAMINED. (NP 1016, HI 734). HH090/848/01 28.5.99 LOCATED IN 5233.367N, 0144.333 [OGB]. EXAMINED VISUALLY AT LW. RETAIN AS CHARTED. (NP 1016, HI 848). NCA. HH242/540/19 16.8.05 OBSERVED 19.7.05 BY THV VECTIS ON 19.7.05. WK CENTRED ON 5233.378N, 0144.134E [EUT], DRIES 1.6MTRS. BUOY IN 5233.399N, 0144.237E, APPROX 071DEGS, 122MTRS FROM WK. (TRINITY HOUSE, LTR DTD 9.8.05). NE 1536. SEP 2011/000240232 4.1.12 EXAM'D 29.9.11 IN LISTED POSN. TAPED HT WITH ACCURATE TIDAL HT GIVES DRYING HT OF 2.0MTRS. REMAINS OF WK CONSIST TO SEVERAL STEEL PILLARS OF APPROX 15CM DIAMETER. (THV ALERT, ROS DTD 5.10.11). AMEND STP 2.0MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2014/000101118 21.5.14 OBSERVED 17.3.14 IN 5233.378N, 0144.134E [WGD]. TAPED WITH ACCURATE TIDAL HT GIVES DRYING HT OF 2.07MTRS. (THV ALERT, ROS DTD 15.5.14). AMEND ST 2.1MTRS. SEP 2016/000103094 9.5.16 OBSERVED 10.2.16 IN 5233.378N, 0144.134E [WGD]. TAPED WITH ACCURATE TIDAL HT GIVES DRYING HT OF 2.09MTRS. (THV PATRICIA, ROS DTD 11.2.16). NFA. SEP 2017/000186964 20.4.18 WK NOT ACCESSIBLE, DRIES AT LW. [EGS, HI1545]. RETAIN PREVIOUS DEPTH DRIES 2.1MTRS. SEP 2018/000257229 8.10.18 OBSERVED 8.10.18 IN 5233.378N, 0144.134E [WGD]. TAPED WITH ACCURATE TIDAL HT GIVES DRYING HT OF 1.743MTRS (LAT). (THV ALERT, ROS DTD 09.10.18). AMEND DEPTH DRIES 1.8MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: SEVERAL STEEL PILLARS OF 15CM DIAMETER VISIBLE AT LW

Position: 52 33.378 N,1 44.134 E

 

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