Maritime record MWX5154 - Nibbler III

A motor fishing vessel that sank at the Swash channel training bank.

A motor fishing vessel that sank on the Swash Channel training bank in 1981 (1) 'Vessel stranded and list whilst on passage, said to have gone aground 1,570m, bearing 133.5° from the Haven Hotel flagstaff.' (2) Length: 16.2m (1); 16.15m (2) Propulsion: Screw-driven oil engine. (2) Nothing further is known about the vessel. Date of loss qualifier: Actual date of loss Additional sources cited in Shipwreck Index of the British Isles: Lloyds List 01.02.1989 Position 50 40.36 N 1 55.90 W taken from (3) Although initially charted by the UK Hydrographic Office at the approximate position 50°40.40N, 001°55.87W, in a general depth of 1m, the NIBBLER III could not be found during a visual search just two months after she stranded, and the record of her position has been amended to 'dead'. (4) The building date for this vessel is an estimate based on an average age at wrecking of twenty years. This average is derived from those vessels wrecked on the Dorset coast whose age at wrecking is known.

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