This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms agate, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 52.18 N,1 46.833 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. Actuosity (possibly)
3. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
4. Alice taylor
5. Alster
6. Alston
7. Artemisia
8. Avonwood
9. Ayrshire (possibly)
10. Barrhill
11. Begona no 5
12. Bertha
13. Boulderpool (after part)
14. Boulderpool (fwd part)
15. British triumph
16. Camilla weston
17. Cantabria (probably)
18. Cardanel
19. Chevington
20. City of kobe
21. Clansman (possibly)
22. Continental (possibly)
23. Corchester
24. Cordene
25. Corduff
26. Courier (probably)
27. Crichtoun
28. Cross sand ltv
29. Daisy (possibly)
30. Dashwood
31. David b summers
32. Efos
33. El dorado
34. Ems
35. English trader
36. Ethel
37. Ethel radcliffe
38. Excellenz mehnert
39. Friesland
40. Fulgens
41. Galatea (possibly)
42. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
43. Gardenia
44. Geneva
45. George fisher
46. Georgia (for'd part)
47. Glen derry (probably)
48. Glen tilt (possibly)
49. Glynn
50. Granta
51. Hauxley (possibly)
52. Hector gannet
53. Helena
54. Hms agate
55. Hms cantatrice
56. Hms cloughton wyke
57. Hms dhoon (probably)
58. Hms dungeness
59. Hms force
60. Hms francolin
61. Hms glen prosen
62. Hms m a west (probably)
63. Hms tonbridge
64. Hms tranio
65. Hms true accord (probably)
66. Hms washington (probably)
67. Hms william stephen
68. Hmsm c 11
69. Hmsm d5
70. I t l anna b
71. Ilse
72. Ionian (probably)
73. King egbert
74. La perouse (possibly)
75. Langeli (possibly)
76. Leelite
77. Leopold ii
78. Lindisfarne (probably)
79. Londoner (probably)
80. Marsworth
81. Meriones
82. Montferland
83. Mount ida
84. Murdoch (probably)
85. Navarra (possibly)
86. Nereus
87. Nordborg (possibly)
88. Norman queen
89. Oakgrove
90. Ole bull
91. Osprey
92. Otter
93. Oxshott (possibly)
94. Pacific (possibly)
95. Pegrix
96. Polaris
97. Prima
98. Regain
99. Robrix
100. Roine
101. Rose marie
102. Roy
103. Rye
104. Seagull
105. Seaham
106. Sheaf water
107. Sir william stephenson
108. St mark
109. Stanmount
110. Trevethoe
111. Upminster
112. Vanguard
113. Vanilla (probably)
114. Varoy
115. Vigo
116. Viola (possibly)
117. Waldinge
118. Walkure
119. War valley
120. Whintown (possibly)
121. Willowpool
122. Xanthe
123. Yewvalley (possibly)

 

Name: HMS AGATE

Length 33.9 meter, width: 6.7 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 627 ton

Cause: ex-rostock. built in 1914 by cochrane & sons ltd, selby. previously owned by kinston steam trawling co ltd. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 76nhp, single shaft. one x 6 pdr gun. hired as a patrol vessel in 1915. mined. (sibi). convoy escort which ran aground in gale with part of convoy. (ww2sl).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 8 meter, Height above seabed: 95 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2015

Details measurements/cartography: H02994/41 16.9.41 INS DW IN 525205N, 014655E.

- NM 2157/41. LOCATED BY SONAR. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 1950). H1970/53 16.2.54 MAST, SHOWING 50FT ABOVE MHWS, IN 525205.1N, 014655.4E. (HMS SHACKLETON, 18.11.53). INS LEGEND 'MAST'.

- NM 384/53. H4658/71 27.2.74 MAST NO LONGER VISIBLE. SWEPT CLEAR 6.2.74. PREVIOUSLY GAVE GOOD RADAR RETURNS. (THV PATRICIA, HN 6.2.74). DELETE 'MAST'.

- NM 545/74. H1952/80 24.1.83 EXAM'D 3.6.82 IN 525205N, 014658E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 2.9 IN GEN DEPTH 4MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 6MTRS. CLOSE SOUNDED ONLY. (SOISS, HI 22). BR STD. HH090/604/01 23.11.93 NOT FOUND DURING AREA SEARCH USING E/S AND DCS3. EXPUNGE. (OCEONICS (UK) LTD., HI 604). DELETE. BR STD. SEP 2015/000041896 21.5.15 EXAM'D 19.1.15 IN 5252.180N, 0146.833E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 2.55MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 5.8MTRS, EXTENDS 108MTRS TOWARDS 335DEGREES. LENGTH 147.1MTRS, WIDTH 35.2MTRS, HT 3.6MTRS., ORIENTATION 095/275 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY HI1427). AMEND DW 2.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: LARGE DEBRIS AND SCOUR AROUND WRECK.

Position: 52 52.18 N,1 46.833 E

 

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