Maritime record MWX5154 - Nibbler III

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.

<1> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 179 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<2> Larn, R, and Larn, B, 1995, Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 1 : Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset Section 6, Dorset (AJ) Vol 1 (Monograph). SWX4541.

<3> Hinchcliffe, J and V, 1999, Dive Dorset: a diver guide (3rd Edition) (Monograph). SWX1.

<4> United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, Wreck report, http://www.wrecksite.eu/ukhoDetails.aspx?19571 > Accessed 22-JUL-2010 (Monograph). SDO20514.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1521548 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 16 2024 2:50PM