This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms assurance, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 39.735 N,1 35.514 W (50.662250, -1.591900)

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 ASSURANCE

Length 40.5 meter, width: 11.6 meter, tonnage 823 ton

Cause: ran aground on the needles. (srn).

Year of registration: 1970

Water depth above wreck: 4 meter

Known since: 1972, last detected: 1997

Details measurements/cartography: 6.8.70 PRESUMED TO HAVE BEEN LOCATED IN 503942N, 013527W, REPD TO HAVE BEEN LOST ON THE NEEDLES. (SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY, J J COLLEDGE). 17.8.70 ARTICLES RECOVERED BY D R WILLIAMS & D COTTON INCLUDE RIVETS, BRASS FITTINGS, COPPER NAILS, ETC. ALSO MARLIN SPIKE WITH BROAD ARROW SYMBOL. WRECK THEREFORE ASSUMED TO BE ASSURANCE. REQUEST MADE TO PURCHASE. (N/CP 53423/69). H2529/74 17.5.74 DESIGNATED A PROTECTED HISTORIC WK. (STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 457/74).

- NM 1109/74. H1289/76/337 12.10.76 NUMBER OF LARGE & SMALL COPPER PINS, AN ANCHOR & SOME OLD WOODEN BLOCKS FOUND IN ALUM BAY. (M. WHITE, LYMINGTON). 18.11.82 THIS SITE NOW KNOWN TO CONTAIN WKGE OF SCHOONER 'DREAM', WHICH SANK IN 1837, AND ROMAN COINS - TETRADRACHMAS, DATED AROUND AD 280, HAVE BEEN FOUND INDICATING PROBABILITY OF ROMAN WRECK ALSO HERE. (DIVER MAGAZINE, NOV 1982). HH232/720/06 20.8.97 RESTRICTED AREA AMENDED TO 200MTRS RADIUS CENTRED ON 533942.0N, 013525.80W [OGB], BUT EXCLUDING ANY PART OF THAT AREA WHICH LIES ABOVE THE HW MARK OF ORDINARY SPRING TIDES. (STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 1528/97). NE 2219. 6.7.00 EUT POSN: 5039.735N, 0135.514W. NE 2021.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: REST'D AREA ALSO COVERS [19057] (WK HIS)

Position: 50 39.735 N,1 35.514 W

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