This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms asia, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 60 6.052 N,1 7.4 W (60.342516666667, -1.0269666666667)

 

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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. Anglo dane
2. Borodinskoye polye
3. Braer
4. Dana
5. Day dawn
6. Destiny
7. Fitful head
8. Flynderborg (possibly)
9. Fraoch ban
10. Girdleness
11. Gk 41/gr 41
12. Glenisla
13. Goodwill merchant
14. Green lily
15. Gwladmena
16. Havaldan
17. Hms asia
18. Hms cheerful
19. Leonatus
20. Lunohods-1
21. Miss lucy 11
22. Murrayfield (possibly)
23. Ocean maid
24. Pionersk
25. Quiet waters
26. Quo vadis
27. River lossie
28. Samba
29. Sea mist
30. Slavonic (probably)
31. Uc 55 (possibly)
32. Valkyrie
33. Verdant

 

Name: HMS ASIA

Length 44.7 meter, width: 7.1 meter, draught: 3.5, tonnage 309 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built 1905 by earles, hull, with 3 cylinder triple expansion engine of 85hp, single shaft1 boiler. hired as a minesweeper in 1914. mined 1.25m s of kirkabister lt, bressay. (ll ww1, sibi, shipwrecks of n scotland, baird)

Year of registration: 1956

Water depth above wreck: 69 meter, Height above seabed: 140 cm

Known since: 1956, last detected: 1985

Details measurements/cartography: H2334/84 19.12.85 H2334/84 19.12.85 WK EXAMINED 25.7.85 IN 600605N, 010717W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER. LEAST ES DEPTH 63 IN GEN DEPTH 69MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 5.6MTRS, LENGTH 50MTRS, BEAM 10MTRS. LYING 140/320DEG. (NP 1008 HI 244). BR STD. 9.11.00 9.11.00 EUT POSN: 6006.052N, 0107.400W. NE 3272. 8.10.07 8.10.07 WK IS STEAM TRAWLER ASIA. (K HEATH, TELCON 8.10.07 & SHIPWRECKS OF N SCOTLAND, BAIRD)
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 60 6.052 N,1 7.4 W

 

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