Record Details
| NHER Number: | 18731 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | Post medieval wreck |
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Summary
A wreck is marked on an Admiralty chart of 1957. It could be HMS Actuosity, which struck an unknown object in October 1940.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | NORTH SEA, -, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Wreck.
On Admiralty chart 1957 as at 52 degrees 55' north, 1 degree 44' east.
E. Rose (NAU), 28 January 1983.
Nearest survey record is at 52.55.30 north, 001.31.00 east.
HMS Actuosity, which struck an unknown object on 3 October 1940.
Located by divers 1961 covered in barnacles.
'Resembles a small tanker'.
See details in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 27 January 1984.
Monument Types
- WRECK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
Related records - none
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