Maritime record MWX1998 - Frogner

(1) Built: 1907 Builder: Nylands Vaerksted Where Built: Christiania Propulsion: screw-driven, 3 cylinder triple expansion engine Horsepower: 152 Boilers: 2 Master: O Lehman Additional Construction Details: P.deck 8ft; b.deck 108ft; f.castle 28ft (2)(3) Torpedoed by German submarine UC-17 in the Channel near Portland. (5) Steamship torpedoed and sunk off Portland Bill.(8) Wreck lies in a general depth of 35m, orientated 010/190 degrees, and is owned by the Channel Divers. (2)(3) The FROGNER was torpedoed by a German submarine - UC17. (1)

01-MAY-1918 Position 50 32 30N, 02 32 00W.(1)
09-JUN-1952 Wire drift sweep. Position 50 31 48N, 02 33 23W. Clear at 15 fathoms foul at 16 fathoms. Least depth by echosounder 99 feet, surrounding depth 20 fathoms. Lies in NW/SE direction. Length 150 feet. The shallowest depth is at the southern end.(1)
08-JUL-1984 Swept clear at 29.3, foul at 29.6m. Least echosounder depth 30.2 in general depth 35m. No scour. Side scan sonar height 4.6m, length approx. 40m. Lying 010/190 deg. (1)

Part of a wheel recovered from this wreck off Weymouth. (Droit A/2216).(7)

Additional source: CLWB Vol.2 No.132 LR 1917-18 No.688(F) DGWP p27(18)

Net tonnage

Position 50 32.02 N 2 33.06 W taken from (12)

<1> United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, 1992, Hydrographic Office wreck index (Index). SWX4837.

<2> Larn, Richard, 1992, United Kingdom shipwreck index, Extracted 23 November 1992 (Index). SWX5030.

<3> 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.

<4> 1990, Lloyds war losses, The First World War: Casualties to shipping through enemy causes 1914-1918, p214 (Index). SWX4540.

<5> Von Munching, L, 1968, Merchant shipping losses of Allied, neutral and central powers during and shortly after World War I, p83 (Monograph). SWX4751.

<6> Hocking, Charles, 1990, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the Age of Steam, p257 (Monograph). SWX4536.

<7> 2001, Maritime and Coastguard Agency: Receiver of Wreck Amnesty, 23-Jan to 24-Apr-2001 (Index). SWX4542.

<8> 1976, Dorset magazine : the county magazine. Dorset Shipwrecks, p24 (Article in serial). SWX5166.

<9> Maw, Neil, 1999, World War One Channel Wrecks (Vessels lost in the English Channel 1914-1918), Area 8, No 8/49 p 172 (Monograph). SDO20146.

<10> Receiver of Wreck, Droit of the Receiver of Wreck A/2216 (Unpublished document). SWX489.

<10> Hinchcliffe, J and V, 1984, Dive Dorset: a diver guide (1st Edition), No 80 p77 (Monograph). SWX1714.

<11> Hinchcliffe, J and V, 1990, Dive Dorset: a diver guide (2nd Edition), No 80 p77 (Monograph). SWX5640.

<12> Hinchcliffe, J and V, 1999, Dive Dorset: a diver guide (3rd Edition), No 107 p95 (Monograph). SWX1.

<13> SeaZone Hydrospatial, Digital marine geographic information derived from SeaZone Hydrospatial, 15-APR-2008 (Digital archive). SDO20540.

<14> 1977, Admiralty Chart 2454, 15-APR-2008 (Cartographic materials). SDO14746.

<15> http://www.skipet.no, accessed and translated from the Norwegian on 15-APR-2008 (Digital archive). SDO20138.

<16> Miramar Ship Index www.miramarshipindex.org.nz, 38649 > accessed on 15-APR-2008 (Digital archive). SDO20161.

<17> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 44 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<18> National Record of the Historic Environment, 904628 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 11 2024 3:43PM