This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms acheron (bow section), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 31.331 N,1 30.442 W (50.522183, -1.507367)

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: HMS ACHERON (BOW SECTION)

Length 98.5 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 1350 ton

Cause: built in 1930 by thornycroft & co. three boilers, turbine engines for 34,000hp, twin shaft. passage from portsmouth for trials and return. 4 x 4.7 inch, 2 x 2pdr guns. 8 tt. mined and broke in two. bow section sank at once. 151 crew and dockyard trials team lost. mined and sank off the isle of wight. 151 lives lost.

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 40 meter, Height above seabed: 105 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: H067/41 17.12.40 SANK IN APPROX POSN 165DEGS, 8.5M FROM THE NEEDLES. (C-IN-C PORTSMOUTH, 17.12.40). PLOTS IN APPROX 503136N, 013200W. 22.5.84 SUNK OFF ISLE OF WIGHT. (WW2SL). 22.5.84 REPD TO HAVE BEEN LOCATED BY M WOODWARD 5M S OF ISLE OF WIGHT IN 150FT OF WATER. (THE TIMES, 11.4.84). POSN 503200N, 012600W PD FOR FILING ONLY. 19.12.91 WK IS ALMOST UNDETECTABLE BY E/S AS IT IS VIRTUALLY BURIED WITHIN A SANDWAVE. IT LIES IN TWO PARTS WITH THE BOW SOME WAY FROM THE MAIN WRECKAGE. (M WOODWARD, ARTICLE IN SPORT DIVER, VOL 3, NO 6, NOV/DEC 1991). HH100/351/08 13.1.94 REPD LOCATED IN 503200N, 013100.5W. (J WELCH, WK LISTING). NCA YET. HH090/962/01 3.12.02 EXAM'D IN 5031.332N, 0130.441W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 33.5, FOUL 34.0MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 33.0 IN GEN DEPTH 40MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 30MTRS, WIDTH 7MTRS. DCS3 HT 7MTRS. LIES 080/260 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. DEBRIS EXTENDS 17MTRS ALONG 165/345 DEGS. REPORTED BY M WOODWARD TO BE THE BOW SECTION OF HMS ACHERON, LYING ALMOST VERTICALLY, WITH SURROUNDING DEBRIS. (GARDLINE, HI 962). AMENDED CINC. INS AS SW 33MTRS. BR STD. 15.3.17 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, DEFENCE NO 147/2017. COMING INTO FORCE 3.3.17. AMEND "HISTORIC". SEP 2020/000123102 13.10.21 EXAM’D 29.9.20 IN 5031.331N, 0130.442W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 33.39MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 40MTRS. LENGTH 17.8MTRS, WIDTH 4MTRS, HT 7MTRS. ORIENTATION 105/285 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 20MTRS, WIDTH 28MTRS, 2MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 95 DEGS. (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY AB, HI 1586). BURIED IN A LARGE SANDWAVE. AMEND NDW 33MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BOW SECTION STANDING ALMOST VERTICALLY, SURROUNDED BY DEBRIS

Position: 50 31.331 N,1 30.442 W

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