This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms basilisk, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 8.217 N,2 35.021 E (51.1325, 2.5103666666667)

 

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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. A 10 (possibly)
2. A-15 (possibly)
3. Aloha
4. Anton hammerbacher
5. Apache
6. Auretta
7. Bourrasque
8. Bowsprite (bow section)
9. Bowsprite (bow section)
10. Bramden (possibly)
11. Bruno heinemann (z.8)
12. Calypso
13. Clan macalister
14. Clan macneil (possibly)
15. Cmb 1
16. Cmb 71a
17. Dageraad
18. De wandilaar
19. Dortmund
20. Douaisien (possibly)
21. Ely
22. Emeraude
23. Empire path
24. Etendard
25. Fenella (possibly)
26. Fennella
27. Fl5
28. Floride (probably)
29. G 96
30. Ganko
31. Halo (probably)
32. Heinkel 111
33. Hm motor launch 561
34. Hms basilisk
35. Hms colsay
36. Hms gracie fields
37. Hms grafton
38. Hms grafton
39. Hms grenade
40. Hms hayburn wyke
41. Hms keith
42. Hms king orry
43. Hms polly johnson
44. Hms skipjack
45. Hms st abbs
46. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
47. Hms wakeful
48. Hms waverley
49. Hms whitley
50. Hoop op vrede (n 741)
51. Horst
52. Jaguar
53. Kap arkona
54. Kestrel
55. Keulse vaart iv
56. Kilmore
57. L'urtiga (possibly)
58. Laura
59. Lct(r) 457
60. Le copain d'abord
61. Lorina
62. Lorina (possibly)
63. Lst 420 (bow section)
64. Lst 420 (stern section)
65. Lucy jenny ii
66. M 3610
67. Marie
68. Mariner (possibly)
69. Mona's queen
70. Msc alyssa
71. Nautica ena
72. P 319
73. Putten
74. Queen of the channel (possibly)
75. Quo vadis
76. R.93 (possibly)
77. Rita
78. Robert l vann
79. Robert-clara
80. S 220
81. Sabrina
82. Saint camille
83. Saint therese de jesus
84. Sampa
85. Sea hunter
86. Senator holthusen
87. Sigurds faulbaums
88. Sperrbrecher 170 (probably)
89. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
90. St fagan
91. Sterre der zee
92. Toquet
93. Torpilleur branlebas
94. Trifels
95. Tringa
96. U 11
97. Ub29
98. V 201 (possibly)
99. Vlaanderen (probably)
100. West-hinder
101. Wielingen ii (possibly)
102. Wielingen ltv
103. Wolf
104. Zeester

 

Name: HMS BASILISK

Length 95.1 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 1360 ton

Cause: built in 1930 by john brown & co. 3-drum boilers, turbine engines for 35 knots. four 4.7 inch, two 2 pdr, 5 machine guns. 8 torpedo tubes. badly damaged by bombs from german a/c during dunkirk evacuations in company with hms keith, hms shipjack and hms salamander. hms keith and hms shipjack were sunk and hms basilisk made for dover but sank on sandbank off de panne after an aerial attack. was later destroyed by two torpedoes fired by hms whitehall. (dods, sibi & r verpoorte).

Year of registration: 1963

Water depth above wreck: 3 meter

Known since: 1963, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H2873/63 2.8.63 DW IN 510800N, 023445E, MARKED BY G CONL BUOY CLOSE NE. (OSTEND NM 10/81/63).

- NM 1598/63. H2873/63 6.12.65 NOW ST IN 510817N, 023507E [EUR], MARKED BY G CONL BUOY CLOSE NW. (OSTEND NM 21/157/65).

- NM 2254/65. H802/61 1.5.69 RADAR REFLECTOR FITTED ON BUOY. (OSTENDE NM 4/48/69). BR STD. 12.11.75 SHOWN AS WK 0.2MTRS MARKED BY G CONL BUOY, RAREFL, CLOSE N ON BELGIAN 1 [CORR TO NM 18/75]. NC 125. H1310/81/29 16.11.81 DIVED ON. IDENTIFIED AS BRITISH WARSHIP, SIMILAR TO HMS WHITLEY, FROM BOILERS, 4.7INCH GUN MOUNTING AND SHELLS, DEPTH CHARGE ACCESSORIES, AND PORT HOLE WITH BROAD ARROW MARKING. NO SPECIFIC IDENTIFICATION YET. (J. COULON, 3.11.81). H1310/83/8 2.2.83 TWO PDR AMMUNITION FOUND ON WRECK, WHICH HAS A 4-TORPEDO TUBE MOUNTING & A SINGLE DEPTH CHARGE RAIL. THOUGH NOT POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED, THOUGHT TO BE HMS BASILISK. (J. COULON, 8.1.83). H1545/64 27.6.88 H1545/64 27.6.88 NOW SW 1.2MTRS IN 510816N, 023506E [EUR]. (OSTEND NM 11/89/88). BR STD. H1310/88/18 26.7.88 POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS HMS BASILISK FROM SHIP'S CREST ON GUN TAMPION FOUND ON SITE. (J COULON, 15.3.88). HH342/710/05 12.10.99 N CARD BUOY 'WK 1' NOW IN 5108.35N, 0235.13E. (BELGIAN NM 20/147/99). NCA. SEP 2010/000138707 18.10.10 SHOWN AS SW 1.1MTR [LAT] IN 5108.217N, 0235.021E [WGD] WITH UNLIT N CARD BUOY 'WK 1' ON BELGIAN 102 [NE 1.6.10, 1:60,000].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 8.217 N,2 35.021 E

 

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