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