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 (52.795983333333, 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. Ayrshire (possibly)
11. Barrhill
12. Bertha
13. Boulderpool (after part)
14. Boulderpool (fwd part)
15. British triumph
16. Camilla weston
17. Cantabria (probably)
18. Cardanel
19. Chevington
20. Clan morrison
21. Clansman (possibly)
22. Continental (possibly)
23. Corchester
24. Cordene
25. Corduff
26. Corea
27. Courier (probably)
28. Cross sand ltv
29. Daisy (possibly)
30. Dashwood
31. David b summers
32. Duncarron
33. Efos
34. Eikhaug
35. Ems
36. English trader
37. Ethel
38. Ethel radcliffe
39. Friesland
40. Fulgens
41. Galatea (possibly)
42. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
43. Gardenia
44. Geneva
45. George fisher
46. Georgia (for'd part)
47. Georgia (stern section)
48. Glen derry (probably)
49. Granta
50. Hauxley (possibly)
51. Hector gannet
52. Hms agate
53. Hms cantatrice
54. Hms caroline moller
55. Hms cloughton wyke
56. Hms dhoon (probably)
57. Hms dungeness
58. Hms force
59. Hms francolin
60. Hms irvana (part of)
61. Hms m a west (probably)
62. Hms nogi
63. Hms tonbridge
64. Hms tranio
65. Hms vortigern
66. Hms washington (probably)
67. Hms william stephen
68. Hmsm c 11
69. Homefire
70. I t l anna b
71. Ilse
72. Jessie maersk
73. Jevington court
74. Kenton
75. Keymun
76. King egbert
77. La perouse (possibly)
78. Langeli (possibly)
79. Lanterna (probably)
80. Leelite
81. Londoner (probably)
82. Marden
83. Marsworth
84. Meriones
85. Minorca
86. Montferland
87. Murdoch (probably)
88. Norman queen
89. Ole bull
90. Osprey
91. Otter
92. Oxshott (possibly)
93. Pacific (possibly)
94. Pacific (possibly)
95. Pegrix
96. Polaris
97. Prima
98. Regain
99. Rimac
100. Robrix
101. Roine
102. Rose marie
103. Roy
104. Salvus ii
105. Seagull
106. Seaham
107. Sheaf water
108. Sir william stephenson
109. St mark
110. Teddington
111. Thursonian
112. Trelissick
113. Tyneford
114. Upminster
115. Varoy
116. Vigo
117. Viola (possibly)
118. Walkure
119. War valley
120. Welholme (possibly)
121. Western mist (possibly)
122. Whintown (possibly)
123. White swan
124. Willowpool
125. Winhill or whinhill
126. 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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