Monument record MWX4728 - Bran Point, partially submerged section of a WWII floating breakwater/harbour

The site of a WWII bombardon (section of a floating breakwater/harbour) is visible as a partially submerged structure at this location on aerial photographs.

Horizontal Datum: OGB
Vertical Datum: 116
Orientation: 079259
Method of Fix: HSA

29-MAY-1951: Stranded wreck in 50 37 50N 002 21 42W.

02-FEB-1985: Reported as remains of bombardon unit which previously had sunk off Redcliff Point. [See 013402754; SY 78 SW 66]

14-NOV-1990: Lies 079/259 degrees. Length 29.9m, width 4.7m. Dries 3.7m. Stands 1.4m above ground level. Very broken with little other than starboard plates and some ribs and bollards remaining. Small amounts of wreckage lie with 50m either side of main wreck.<1>

Source (1) gives a date of loss for 013402754 of 26-NOV-1944 and the unit appears to have been recorded in this position since 1951.

Unidentified military(?) structure on foreshore, seen on a 1940's AP. <2>

The site of a WWII bombardon (section of a floating breakwater/harbour) is visible as a partially submerged structure at this location on aerial photographs <3-4>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

<2> Anon, 1940, 1940s APs, AP40_372000E_82000N (Digital archive). SWX8819.

<3> Royal Air Force, 18-NOV-1949, RAF 541/402 3303-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11778.

<4> Royal Air Force, 12-OCT-1950, RAF 541/T/52 PSFP-0028 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11779.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 832525 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2024 4:39PM