This is the information page about the shipwreck Hamm, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 57 39.041 N,10 44.786 E (57.8545, 10.6605)

 

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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. Ane katrine
2. Birthe
3. Brattskaer
4. C f jensen
5. Christian rump
6. Dorethea
7. Freja
8. Frigga
9. Ganler
10. Godalming (possibly)
11. Gratia
12. Gunhild
13. Hamm
14. Hammern
15. Heddernheim
16. Hering
17. Herkules
18. Ida
19. Ingomar
20. Janson
21. Kongshavn
22. Lacho
23. Lilly e
24. Lonny ogard
25. Mona mette
26. Nieman
27. Nordlyset
28. Oakland
29. Oranienborg
30. Ormen
31. Per (probably)
32. Polank
33. Rikkie-line
34. Rygja
35. Skogland
36. Sydfjord
37. Urania
38. Vaaurnus
39. Victoire

 

Name: HAMM

Length 136.9 meter, width: 17.7 meter, draught: 8.2, tonnage 5874 ton

Cause: built in 1921 by blohm & voss. owned at time of loss by hamburg-amerika linie. turbine engines of 882nhp. torpedoed & sunk by british submarine. (dods).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 24 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: H312/41 22.2.41 DW (PA), WITH LT BUOY CLOSE NE, IN 573906N, 104500E. (LENINGRAD NMS 27/452 & 29/498 (1940). INS DWPA WITH LT BUOY CLOSE NE. - FNM ACTION. H312/41 24.8.41 AMEND LT BUOY.

- NM 1781/43. H03489/41 3.1.42 POSN 573910N, 104445E. (GERMAN NM 1483/40). H312/41 29.10.48 LEAST DEPTH NOW 12.5MTRS. BUOY WITHDRAWN. (COPENHAGEN NM 38/1688/48). AMEND TO WK 6FMS 5FT. DELETE BUOY.

- NM 2422/48. H312/41 28.3.49 LEAST DEPTH NOW 13MTRS. (COPENHAGEN NM 43/1842/48). AMEND WK 7FMS. BR STD. H312/41 16.2.62 SALVAGE OPS IN PROGRESS. (COPENHAGEN NM 163/62). H7756/52 25.7.68 LEAST DEPTH NOW 14MTRS IN AMENDED POSN 573910N, 104455E. (COPENHAGEN NM 1027/68). AMEND WK 7FMS 4FT IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 1355/68. 31.1.72 DANISH WK RECORDS SHOW WK IN THIS POSN TO BE DANISH SS HANNE? (DAN WK NO 739044B). THIS VESSEL DID NOT SINK UNTIL 5.10.43 AND WAS COMPLETELY SALVAGED IN 1945 (DOD). H6509/82 8.8.83 POSN NOW GIVEN AS 573903N, 104452E. (COPENHAGEN NM 1010/83). BR STD. 13.3.90 SHOWN AS WKS 14MTRS ON NC 2671. SEP 2008/000018588 22.2.08 NOW WK 22MTRS IN 5739.041N, 1044.786E [WGD]. (DANISH NM 7/185/08).

- NM 1559/08.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 57 39.041 N,10 44.786 E

 

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