This is the information page about the shipwreck Artemisia, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 51.697 N,1 36.27 E (52.7959833, 1.6965)

 

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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.

 

1. Aberhill
2. Actuosity (possibly)
3. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
4. Algarve
5. Alice taylor
6. Alster
7. Alston
8. Artemisia
9. Asteria
10. Barrhill
11. Bertha
12. Boulderpool (after part)
13. Boulderpool (fwd part)
14. British triumph
15. Camilla weston
16. Cantabria (probably)
17. Cardanel
18. Chevington
19. Clan morrison
20. Clansman (possibly)
21. Continental (possibly)
22. Corchester
23. Cordene
24. Corduff
25. Courier (probably)
26. Cross sand ltv
27. Dashwood
28. David b summers
29. Duncarron
30. Efos
31. Eikhaug
32. Ems
33. English trader
34. Ethel
35. Ethel radcliffe
36. Friesland
37. Fulgens
38. Galatea (possibly)
39. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
40. Gardenia
41. Geneva
42. George fisher
43. Georgia (for'd part)
44. Georgia (stern section)
45. Glen derry (probably)
46. Granta
47. Hauxley (possibly)
48. Hector gannet
49. Hms agate
50. Hms caroline moller
51. Hms cloughton wyke
52. Hms dhoon (probably)
53. Hms dungeness
54. Hms force
55. Hms francolin
56. Hms irvana (part of)
57. Hms m a west (probably)
58. Hms tonbridge
59. Hms tranio
60. Hms vortigern
61. Hms washington (probably)
62. Hms william stephen
63. Hmsm c 11
64. Homefire
65. I t l anna b
66. Ilse
67. Jessie maersk
68. Jevington court
69. Kenton
70. Keymun
71. King egbert
72. La perouse (possibly)
73. Langeli (possibly)
74. Lanterna (probably)
75. Leelite
76. Londoner (probably)
77. Marden
78. Marsworth
79. Minorca
80. Montferland
81. Murdoch (probably)
82. Norman queen
83. Ole bull
84. Osprey
85. Otter
86. Oxshott (possibly)
87. Pacific (possibly)
88. Pacific (possibly)
89. Pegrix
90. Polaris
91. Prima
92. Regain
93. Rimac
94. Robrix
95. Roine
96. Rose marie
97. Roy
98. Salvus ii
99. Seagull
100. Seaham
101. Sheaf water
102. St mark
103. Teddington
104. Thursonian
105. Trelissick
106. Tyneford
107. Upminster
108. Varoy
109. Viola (possibly)
110. Walkure
111. War valley
112. Welholme (possibly)
113. Western mist (possibly)
114. Whintown (possibly)
115. White swan
116. Willowpool
117. Winhill or whinhill
118. Xanthe

 

Name: ARTEMISIA

Length 128 meter, width: 16.5 meter, draught: 10.4, tonnage 6507 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Ex-antar. built in 1920 by w doxford & sons, sunderland. owned at time of loss by h m thomson. three boilers, triple expansion engine of 565 nhp, single shaft. machinery by w doxford. passage london for the tyne and bahia blanca. boumbed and sunk by german aircraft. two men killed. (sibi & dods).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 22 meter, Height above seabed: 100 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2015

Details measurements/cartography: H01121/41 26.7.41 SUNK IN 525140N, 013618E, MAST SHOWING 13FT AT HW. (FOIC YARMOUTH). CHART AS DW IN 525140N, 013618W.

- NM 1671/41. INS G CONL LT BUOY, FL.G.10S, CLOSE NW OF WK. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). - TFNM 1748/41. 14.10.41 INS BUOY AS ABOVE. - FNM 2415/41. 7.8.48 SWEPT AFTER DISPERSAL IN 525141N, 013624E. CLEAR AT 46FT, FOUL AT 47FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 55FT IN GEN DEPTH 70FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 27.7.48). AMEND TO WK 7FMS 4FT IN 525141N, 013624E & DELETE BUOY.

- NM 1712/48. 23.6.69 AMEND TO SW 7FMS 4FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 1948). BR STD. H3542/68 23.6.70 LOCATED BY DIVERS IN JUNE 1970. POSN CONFIRMED. WK LIES E/W, UPRIGHT WITH BOWS SLIGHTLY DOWN. BOWS SEVERELY DAMAGED AND SHAPELESS MATERIAL HEAPED ON SEABED. PORT MIDSHIPS DAMAGED, REST OF HULL INTACT. MOST OF DECKING INTACT. NO MASTS, DERRICKS OR FUNNELS. MIDSHIPS ISLAND COLLAPSED WITH ENGINE ROOM EXPOSED AND FULL OF DEBRIS. HOLDS APPEAR FULL OF SAND & MUD. (R EDMONDS, DS5, 18.6.70). H1270/71 18.11.71 DISPERSED SUBSEQUENT TO SINKING. (E GILES, UNDERMARINE OPS LTD, 13.10.71). 14.3.73 CHART AS WK SW 13.8MTRS [LAT]. NC 106. H1952/80 24.1.83 EXAM'D 5.8.81 IN 525140N, 013623E [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 13.1MTRS, FOUL AT 14.1MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 16.9MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 3MTRS. DCS3 HT 9MTRS. LENGTH 137MTRS APPROX, APPARENTLY INTACT LYING 080/260DEGS. (SOISS, HI 22). AMEND SW 13.1MTRS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 708/83. HH242/550/04 30.11.93 EXAM'D 15.7.93 IN 525140N, 013622E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [4 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 15MTRS, FOUL AT 15.4MTRS. LEAST DEPTH 15.4MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 22MTRS BY E/S. SCOUR DEPTH 2.5MTRS. DCS3 HT 4.8MTRS, LENGTH 130MTRS, BREADTH 30MTRS. PARTIALLY BROKEN LYING 100/280DEGS. (OCEONICS (UK) LTD, HI 22). AMEND SW 15MTRS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 4369/93. SEP 2015/000041896 21.5.15 LOCATED IN 5251.697N, 0136.270E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 16.06MTRS. LENGTH 135MTRS, WIDTH 30MTRS, HT 6MTRS. LIES 100/280 DEGS. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY HI1427). AMEND DW 16.0MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 51.697 N,1 36.27 E

 

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