This is the information page about the shipwreck Gripfast, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 26.032 N,2 30.065 W (50.39495, -2.4067166666667)

 

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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. 20
2. Addarwa
3. Aeneas (probably)
4. Ailsa craig (probably)
5. Alex van opstal
6. Algarve
7. Amy
8. Apache
9. Athen
10. Binnendijk
11. Black hawk (aft section)
12. Black hawk (fwd section)
13. Britannia (possibly)
14. British inventor (bow section)
15. Centurion
16. Conch
17. Countess of erne
18. Earl of abergavenny
19. Elena r
20. Elmcrest
21. Enecuri
22. Ethel (probably)
23. Evertsen
24. Finn
25. Forester (& pontoon)
26. Franziska
27. Frigga
28. Frogner ?
29. Gallia
30. Girnigoe
31. Gorizia
32. Grane
33. Gripfast
34. Hartlepool (part of)
35. Hartlepool (part of)
36. Himalaya
37. Hms blackwood
38. Hms boadicea
39. Hms buccaneer
40. Hms delight
41. Hms fisgard ii
42. Hms golden sunset (possibly)
43. Hms james fennel
44. Hms kingston cairngorm (possibly)
45. Hms landrail (probably)
46. Hms recoil (bow section)(probably)
47. Hms recoil (stern section)(probably)
48. Hms remindo (possibly)
49. Hms warrior ii
50. Hmsm l24
51. Hmsm m2
52. Hmsm p555
53. Hmsm sidon
54. Inisinver
55. Juvenile delinquent
56. K m b (possibly)
57. L h carl
58. Longsand
59. Lst 507 (bow section)
60. Lst 507 (stern section)
61. Lst 531
62. Mallard (possibly)
63. Marie therese
64. Martha
65. Meknes
66. Memnon
67. Merchant royal
68. Minerva (probably)
69. Moidart
70. Neree (possibly)
71. Netley abbey (possibly)
72. Onward (probably)
73. Orne (possibly)
74. Pas (c.182)
75. Pitchipoy (possibly)
76. Pomeranian
77. Romsdalen (probably)
78. Rowella
79. Royal adelaide
80. Salsette ii
81. Saratoga
82. Scaldis
83. Spiral (possibly)
84. St dunstan
85. Stancrest
86. Sudon (possibly)
87. Terrapin
88. Thera (possibly)
89. Tracy
90. Trito
91. U 322 (possibly)
92. Ub 74
93. Ull (probably)
94. Valdes (probably)

 

Name: GRIPFAST

Length 68.6 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1109 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1910. an ss, single shaft. passage barry for sheerness. attacked by german aircraft. eight men lost including three from ss rosten sunk earlier the same day by e boats. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1944

Water depth above wreck: 46 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1944, last detected: 2003

Details measurements/cartography: SONAR CONTACT IN PA 502612N, 023012W. (AUBD 303/14, ESCORT GROUP 4). H3971/52 30.6.52 INS NDWPA IN 502612N, 023012W. F 6840. H4623/55 20.7.55 LOCATED IN 502557N, 022958W USING DECCA. LEAST E/S DEPTH 19FMS IN GEN DEPTH 25FMS. DIRN 090/270DEGS. GOOD A/S RESPONSE. (HMS SCOTT, 16.10.54). INS WK 19FMS IN REVISED POSN. LC 3315. H3564/61 20.7.61 GOOD CLEAR ECHO BUT DID NOT MARK WELL ON RANGE RECORDER. LOST ON BOTH RUNS AT 7-800YDS. (CAPTAIN F2, PORTLAND). H3950/70 24.5.71 HAMEND TO WK 34MTRS. NC 3315. H5982/82 3.2.83 WK SHOWN IN 502607N, 023012W ON KINGFISHER CHART K(SW)1, 1982. NCA. HH100/351/21 15.10.03 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED BY THE BELL. PARTLY INTACT WITH GUN AND MOUNT ON SEABED. SHELLS DATED 1941 INSIDE THE STERN. UPRIGHT BUT PART OF MIDSHIPS DECK INVERTED ON STBD SIDE. BOWS INTACT BUT FOC'S'LE COLLAPSED. PROPELLER BLADES MISSING AND ENGINE TILTED 15 DEGS TO STBD. (N R CHIPCHASE & I TAYLOR, SKIN DEEP DIVING). NCA. HH090/961/01 3.12.03 NOT INVESTIGATED. LIES IN AREA OF STATIC FISHING GEAR. (GARDLINE, HI 961). NCA. H100/351/21 7.1.04 LIES IN 5026.032N, 0230.065W [WGD]. (N R CHIPCHASE & I TAYLOR, SKIN DEEP DIVING). AMEND POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: PARTLY INTACT

Position: 50 26.032 N,2 30.065 W

 

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