This is the information page about the shipwreck Dashwood, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 57.636 N,1 53.3 E (52.7504, 2.0371)

 

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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. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
3. Alice taylor
4. Alster
5. Alston
6. Angele-erika
7. Artemisia
8. Barrhill
9. Blacktoft (possibly)
10. Cantabria (probably)
11. Cardanel
12. Chevington
13. Clansman (possibly)
14. Continental coaster (probably)
15. Corbrook
16. Cordene
17. Corduff
18. Courier (probably)
19. Dashwood
20. Ems
21. English trader
22. Excellenz mehnert
23. Fulgens
24. Galatea (possibly)
25. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
26. George fisher
27. Georgia (for'd part)
28. Glen derry (probably)
29. Goodwood (possibly)
30. Hector gannet
31. Hms agate
32. Hms bracklyn (possibly)
33. Hms dhoon (probably)
34. Hms force
35. Hms glen prosen
36. Hms tranio
37. Hms true accord (probably)
38. Hms washington (probably)
39. Hms william stephen
40. Horseferry (probably)
41. Ilse
42. Ionian (probably)
43. Kentwood (probably)
44. La perouse (possibly)
45. Langeli (possibly)
46. Leelite
47. Leopold ii
48. Liliane (possibly)
49. Marsworth
50. Montferland
51. Mount ida
52. Murdoch (probably)
53. Navarra (possibly)
54. Nereus
55. Newland (possibly)
56. Norman queen
57. Oakgrove
58. Onto
59. Osprey
60. Otter
61. Oxshott (possibly)
62. Pegrix
63. Regain
64. Robrix
65. Roine
66. Rose marie
67. Roy
68. Rye
69. Seagull
70. Seaham
71. Sheaf water
72. Stanmount
73. Togston
74. Trevethoe
75. Vanguard
76. Vanilla (probably)
77. Viola (possibly)
78. Virgilia
79. Waldinge
80. Walkure
81. War valley
82. Whintown (possibly)
83. Willowpool
84. Xanthe
85. Yewvalley (possibly)

 

Name: DASHWOOD

Length 85.7 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 5.7, tonnage 2154 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Built in 1924 by vickers ltd, barrow-in-furness. owned at time of loss by w fenwich france & co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 203hp, single shaft. passage london for sunderland. in ballast. bombed and sunk by german aircraft.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 31 meter, Height above seabed: 136 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 20190120

Details measurements/cartography: H02282/41 5.12.41 LOCATED IN POSN 233 DEG, 600YDS FROM 56B BUOY (525737N, 015324E). SWEPT FOUL AT 33FT. 23FT LONG MAINMAST RECOVERED IN SWEEP. TOP OF MAINMAST NOW HAS 40FT OVER IT AT MLWS. FOREMAST PROBABLY STILL DANGEROUS. SWEEPING NOT YET COMPLETE. (FOIC YARMOUTH, 6.7.41). INS AS NDW IN 525737N, 015224E.

- NM 2883/41. H5580/68 9.8.68 LARGE WK LOCATED 17.11.67 IN 525740N, 015319E [OGB] USING HIFIX/3 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 70 IN GEN DEPTH 96FT. STANDS ABOVE SURROUNDING SANDWAVES GIVING EXCELLENT SONAR RESPONSE. 300FT LONG AND LYING 130/310 DEG. (HMS MYRMIDON). AMEND TO WK 12FMS.

- NM 1549/68. 15.4.70 AMEND TO WK 11FMS 5FT [LAT]. LC 1503. H5580/68 11.12.72 AMEND TO WK 21.1MTRS [LAT]. NC 106. HH090/604/01 16.11.93 EXAM'D 7.7.93 IN 525737.3N, 015323.6E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [3 LOPS]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 24.6, FOUL AT 24.9MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 25.1 IN GEN DEPTH 29 TO 31MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 35MTRS. DCS3 HT 6.0MTRS, LENGTH 76MTRS, BREADTH 8MTRS. CLEARLY DEFINED WK LYING 125/305 DEG. (OCEONICS (UK) LTD, HI 604). AMEND TO SW 24.5MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2020/000100123 20.5.20 EXAM'D 20.01.19; IN 5257.636N, 0153.300E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 25.06MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 31MTRS, LENGTH 92.3MTRS, WIDTH 14.7MTRS, HEIGHT 9.3MTRS, ORIENTATION 136/316 DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 17MTRS, WIDTH 17MTRS, 2.2MTRS DEEP, TOWARDS 165 DEGS. WRECK MOSTLY INTACT AND UPRIGHT WITH SLIGHT LIST TO PORT. BOW, STERN AND MID-SECTION ARE PROMINENT. DECK AREAS PARTLY BURIED IN SAND WAVES. (MERITAITO, HI 1580). AMEND DW 25MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 57.636 N,1 53.3 E

 

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