This is the information page about the shipwreck Badger (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 5.43 N,1 48.843 W (50.090500, -1.814050)

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.

Name: BADGER (PROBABLY)

Length 20.1 meter, width: 5.6 meter, tonnage 89 ton
Load: coal,minerals

Cause: owned by thomas w harvey of portsmouth. proabale compound expansion engine, 15 nhp, single shaft. passage jersey for portsmouth. cargo 90 tons of coal tar. fired at by surfaced ub 18. crew abandoned and bombs placed aboard, which failed to sink the ship. five live shells fired into the hull and the vessel sank. crew recovered by ss 'halfean'.

Year of registration: 1951

Water depth above wreck: 60 meter, Height above seabed: 85 cm

Known since: 1951, last detected: 2002

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK BETWEEN PORTLAND & CHERBOURG. (NAVAL STAFF MONOGRAPHS, VOL 17). SUNK 26 MILES SW FROM ST CATHERINE'S PT, ISLE OF WIGHT. (WW1SL). H03504/51 24.7.51 SONAR CONTACT OBTAINED IN 500518N, 014906W DURING SEARCH FOR HMS AFFRAY. THERE CAN BE LITTLE DOUBT ABOUT IT BEING CLASSIFIED AS AN OUTCROP OF ROCK. (C-IN-C PORTSMOUTH). HH090/588/01 3.11.93 WK EXAM'D IN 500526.2N, 014850.6W [WGD] USING HYPERFIX. LEAST E/S DEPTH 56.5 IN GEN DEPTH 60MTRS. SMALL WK IN SHALLOW SCOUR AND LYING APPROX 080/260DEGS. MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (NP 1008, HI 588). BR STD. HH090/588/01 27.6.94 SCOUR DEPTH 0.1MTRS, DCS3 HT 2.6MTRS. LENGTH 25MTRS, BREADTH 4MTRS, LIES 085/265DEGS. (NP 1008, HI 588). NFA. 17.11.98 [EUR] POSN: 500529.5N, 014845.5W. NC 2613. HH100/351/19 24.10.02 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. THE WK OF VERY SMALL SS WITH A COMPOUND EXPANSION ENGINE. STERN INTACT WITH THE PROPELLER IN SITU. MIDSHIPS CONSISTS OF FRAMES AND RIBS AND THE BOW IS BROKEN DOWN. PROBABLY 'BADGER'. (N R CHIPCHASE). NCA. 4.12.12 [WGD] POSN: 5005.430N, 0148.843E.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BOW COLLAPSED, MIDSHIPS ONLY FRAMES

Position: 50 5.43 N,1 48.843 W

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