This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms berkeley (part of), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 59.717 N,1 2.42 E (49.9388, 0.9410167)

 

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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. Af 13
2. Ar voaleden
3. Armada
4. Atalante
5. Braga
6. Cap levi
7. Celine-baptiste
8. Claude michel
9. Cote d'emeraude
10. Garry laure
11. General munthe (possibly)
12. Gerfer
13. Heimdall
14. Hms berkeley (part of)
15. Hms berkeley (part of)
16. Hms berkeley (part of)
17. Hms daffodil
18. Hugo
19. Jaques henri (possibly)
20. Kia ora
21. L'aventurier
22. La belle etoile
23. La revanche
24. Le bison
25. Leeuwarden
26. Les deux beaufs
27. Marie rose
28. Neptune
29. Normandie
30. Oijfeld
31. Ora (possibly)
32. Ora (possibly)
33. Patrick elizabeth
34. Petit pierre
35. Pierre le dieppois
36. Pingouin (possibly)
37. Port-manech
38. Ramsholm (probably)
39. River tyne
40. Salve regina
41. Sante-bonheur
42. Sauternes or cerons
43. Sperrbrecher 178
44. St simon (possibly)
45. Virginie

 

Name: HMS BERKELEY (PART OF)

Length 82.9 meter, width: 8.5 meter, draught: 2.4, tonnage 904 ton

Cause: Built in 1939 by cammel laird. 3-drum boilers, turbine engines of 19000shp for 27.5 knots, twin shaft. four 4 inch guns, eight smaller. during the dieppe raid received a direct hit by a heavy bomb which broke her back and flooded the engine room. 15 ratings lost. (dods).

Year of registration: 1981

Water depth above wreck: 18 meter

Known since: 1981, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: H4982/68 16.1.81 WK 8.7MTRS IN 495945N, 010230E [EUR]. (BREST NM 80 52 34). CHART AS WK 8.7MTRS IN 495943N, 010228E.

- NM 248/81. 4.8.81 SHOWN AS WK 8.7MTRS IN 495930N, 010236E ON FR 6824 [1981 EDN]. NCA. 15.4.86 WK 8.7MTRS IN 495946N, 010230E [EUR]. (FR WK RECORDS 1984 NO.18091014). NE 2147. 15.11.88 PARTIAL WK, IDENTITY STATED AS 'HMS BERKLEY' LOCATED BY V/S, E/S & DIVER. STANDS 11MTRS HIGH OFF SEABED. WK IS IN 3 PARTS, OTHER PART LIES 180MTRS W. (FR WK RECORDS 1987). SEE ALSO WK RECORD [24966].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WK IN THREE PARTS, THIS IS THE BIGGEST

Position: 49 59.717 N,1 2.42 E

 

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