This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms bittern, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 18.18 N,3 0.063 W (50.303000, -3.001050)

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 BITTERN

Length 64.3 meter, width: 6.7 meter, tonnage 360 ton

Cause: built in 1897 by vickers. a 'c' class destroyer. two triple expansion engines of 5700nhp, twin shaft. one 12pdr, five 6pdr guns, 2 torpedo tubes. sank following a collision with ss kenilworth. cut in two and sank with no survivors. (colledge & sibi).

Year of registration: 1989

Water depth above wreck: 55 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1999, last detected: 2003

Details measurements/cartography: HH100/351/01 10.7.89 HH100/351/01 10.7.89 HMS BITTERN'S LAST REPORTED POSN WAS 10M SSE FROM BERRY HEAD AT 0200. COLLISION TOOK PLACE AT 0315 WITH SS KENILWORTH WHICH HAD BEEN STEERING A COURSE OF W 0.5 S ACROSS LYME BAY FROM OFF PORTLAND, AT 11 KNOTS. (C DAVIES, 19.6.89). HH100/351/14 8.9.99 HH100/351/14 8.9.99 DIVED IN 5018.20N, 0300.0W [OGB] USING DECCA. WK LIES BROKEN UP ON AND E/W AXIS. THE MAIN WRECKAGE IN THE QUOTED POSN COMPRISES ONE DAMAGED BOILER, THE TWO ENGINES AND ASSOCIATED PIPEWORK. THE PROPS ARE ALSO IN SITU. THE BOW SECTION IS WELL BROKEN UP AND THIS AND THE OTHER BOILERS AND PARTLY BURIED IN SILT. THE IMPACT WITH SS KENILWORTH APPEARS TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE ON THE PORT SIDE IN THE AREA OF THE AFTERMOST BOILER. HMS BITTERN WAS CUT IN TWO WITH NO SURVIVORS. (N R CHIPCHASE). INS AS NDW. BR STD. HH090/961/01 10.12.03 HH090/961/01 10.12.03 EXAM'D 21.6.03 IN 5018.180N, 0300.063W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 51.6 IN GEN DEPTH 55MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 31MTRS, WIDTH 17MTRS. DCS3 HT 3.2MTRS. LIES 000/180 DEGS. POOR MAGNETIC ANOMALY. BADLY BROKEN UP AND PARTIALLY COVERED WITH SEDIMENT. (GARDLINE, HI 961). AMEND WK 51MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP, PARTY BURIED

Position: 50 18.18 N,3 0.063 W

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