This is the information page about the shipwreck Box hill, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 32.486 N,0 24.959 E (53.556, 0.1333)

 

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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. Ac 9
2. Airdrie (possibly)
3. Amelie-mathilde
4. Amenity
5. Arduity
6. Argo
7. Audacity
8. Avalon
9. B o borjesson
10. Benmacdhui
11. Box hill
12. British councillor
13. Cadmus
14. Canada
15. Capitaine edmond laborie
16. Catford
17. Cecil (possibly)
18. City of birmingham
19. Clavis
20. Corinth (possibly)
21. Corland
22. Cramlington (possibly)
23. Dayrian
24. Deerpool (after section)
25. Deerpool (for'd section)
26. Deodata
27. Diana
28. Dido
29. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
30. Dunsany
31. Egret
32. Empress (probably)
33. Ethel (possibly)
34. Exmoor
35. Fane
36. Faunus
37. Fermo
38. Flourish
39. Fowberry tower (part)
40. Fowberry tower (part)
41. Francis
42. Freidig (possibly)
43. Fryken
44. Georgios
45. Gerhardt (possibly)
46. Girl kitty (possibly)
47. Giuseppe
48. Gladeto
49. Gluckauf (possibly)
50. Gothic
51. Grangemouth
52. Harlech
53. Heimland
54. Hms benvolio
55. Hms calverton
56. Hms corfield
57. Hms cortina
58. Hms dervish
59. Hms egret
60. Hms kos xvi (probably)
61. Hms lormont
62. Hms princess victoria
63. Hms strathborve (part)
64. Hms susarion
65. Hms warland (possibly)
66. Homer
67. Ightham (possibly)
68. Inge marguerite (possibly)
69. Ionic (probably)
70. Jane (possibly)
71. Janet helen (possibly)
72. Jersey (probably)
73. John and thomas
74. Katina bulgari
75. Kimberley (possibly)
76. Konstantinos hadjipateras
77. Kyma
78. Ladas (possibly)
79. Lancaster (possibly)
80. Lightship no 83
81. Lincolnshire time and tide bell
82. Lindy sue
83. Lord haig (possibly)
84. Lord haig (possibly)
85. Lord selborne
86. Lottie (possibly)
87. Lucerne
88. Lutha
89. Lyra (bow section)
90. Maggie
91. Magnolia
92. Marian francis
93. Marie dawn
94. Marshall (probably)
95. Matanuska (probably)
96. Merchiston
97. Modig
98. Modiva (possibly)
99. Nautilus
100. Nimrod
101. Onesta
102. Ophir ii (possibly)
103. Orsa
104. Otis tetrax
105. Paraciers
106. Petroswift
107. Polzella (possibly)
108. Portia
109. Rado (possibly)
110. Ravonia (part)
111. Ravonia (part) (possibly)
112. Rayford
113. Revello
114. Revi
115. Revigo (possibly)
116. Rhuys
117. Rievaulx abbey
118. Rivaulx
119. River don (part of)(probably)
120. River witham
121. Rivergate
122. Rosebud (possibly)
123. Royston
124. Salacon
125. Salmondby
126. Saltoun
127. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
128. Schieland (possibly)
129. Sea pearl
130. Sota eduardo
131. Stylianos chandris
132. Thessaly
133. Triton
134. Upminster (possibly)
135. Vechstroom
136. Venture (possibly)
137. Vereingte (possibly)
138. Victoria
139. Whitemantle (possibly)
140. Windsor (part of)
141. Windsor (part of)
142. Winga
143. Xavier
144. Xavier

 

Name: BOX HILL

Length 137.2 meter, width: 16.8 meter, draught: 7.9, tonnage 5677 ton
Load: grain

Cause: built in 1920 by hawthorn, leslie & co ltd, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by surrey ss co ltd. three boilers, triple expansion engine of 548hp, single shaft. passage st johns, nb for hull. cargo bulk wheat. mined. later dispersed.

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 14 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H070/40 5.1.40 DW IN 533230N, 002400E APPROX. (HMS IVANHOE). - PFNM 18/40. H070/40 18.1.40 INS DW PA IN 533244N, 002436E MARKED BY G CONL LT BUOY, FL(3)G10S, CLOSE E. - FNM 165/40. H070/40 18.1.40 MINED IN 533230N, 002400E DECEMBER 1939. LOCATED IN POSN 101DEGS 10.4M FROM SPURN HEAD LT HO, APPROX. COMPLETELY BROKEN IN HALF WITH MAST AND FUNNEL SHOWING, THE BOW PORTION IS HEADING SW AND THE STERN SE. GEN DEPTH 46-48FT LWST. (TH 12.1.40). H070/40 15.3.40 DW IN 533227N, 002509E. (HMS BEAVER). AMEND TO DW IN 533227N, 002509E.

- NM 659/40. H070/40 11.4.40 WK IN 533227N, 002509E MARKED BY G SPH LT BUOY, FLG5S, 80DEGS 1C FROM WK, & BY G SPH LT BUOY, FLG10S, 260DEGS 100YDS FROM WK. (ADMIRALTY). AMEND TO DW WITH BUOY.

- NM 988/40. H4984/47 13.10.47 13.10.47 WK 2FMS 4FT IN 533227N, 002509E MARKED BY G CAN LT BUOY, FL(2)G10S, CLOSE W. (HMS SCOTT). BR STD. H1902/49 & H070/40 16.1.52 DRIFT SWEPT AFTER DISPERSAL. CLEAR AT 34, FOUL AT 35FT IN 533217N, 002500E. LIES IN GEN DEPTH 45FT. MARKED BY BUOYS. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 23.11.50 & TH.). AMEND TO WK 5FMS 4FT WITH G CONL LT BUOY, FL(3)G10S, CLOSE N.

- NM 93/52. H6493/55 17.3.56 BUOYS REMOVED. (TH).

- NM 694/56. 23.6.75 AMEND TO SW 9.7MTRS. NC 107. HH090/593/01 20.12.93 EXAM'D 18.5.93 IN 533226.1N, 002504.6E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [3 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 14.9 IN GEN DEPTH 13.2MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 15.5MTRS. DCS3 HT 1.0MTR, LENGTH 120MTRS, BREADTH 100MTRS. SCATTERED BROKEN WRECKAGE LYING WITHIN DEEP SCOUR. SEABED SMOOTH GRAVELLY SAND. (OCEONICS (UK) LTD., HI 593). AMEND TO FOUL 14.9MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2013/000180690 11.7.14 EXAM'D 8.1.14 IN 5332.486N, 0024.959E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 13.72 IN GEN DEPTH 14.0MTRS. SCOUR 1.5MTRS DEEP EXTENDS 100MTRS TOWARDS 225 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. WELL BROKEN AND SCATTERED, LYING ENTIRELY WITHIN THE SCOUR. (GARDLINE, HI 1419).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: SCATTERED BROKEN WRECKAGE IN DEEP SCOUR

Position: 53 32.486 N,0 24.959 E

 

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