This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms boadicea, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 25.692 N,2 45.945 W (50.428200, -2.765750)

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 BOADICEA

Length 98.5 meter, width: 9.8 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 1360 ton

Cause: built in 1930 by hawthorn leslie. twin shaft. four 4.7 inch guns in two turrets. eight torpedo tubes. torpedoed by german aircraft. struck in fwd magazine area and bow blown off. 175 men lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1944

Water depth above wreck: 50 meter, Height above seabed: 161 cm

Known since: 1944, last detected: 2003

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK OFF PORTLAND. (DODS). H3971/52 30.6.52 INS NDWPA IN 502500N, 024500W. F 6840. H4623/55 8.2.60 EXAM'D IN 502538N, 024550W USING DECCA. LEAST E/S DEPT 22FMS IN GEN DEPT 27FMS. SEABED GRAVEL & SAND. GOOD A/S RESPONSE. (SCES/HMS SCOTT 4.10.54). AMEND TO WK 22FMS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.H3950/70 24.5.71 AMEND TO WK 40MTRS. NC 3315. H5982/82 25.1.83 WK SHOWN IN 502539N, 024546W ON KINGFISHER CHART K(SW)1, 1982. 21.7.86 DIVED ON 14.7.86 IN 502542N, 024554W [OGB] USING DECCA. IDENTIFIED BY BELL AS HMS BOADICEA - 1931. STERN HALF OF SHIP LIES UPRIGHT AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. LARGE GUN POINTS AFT AND DEPTH CHARGES REMAIN IN RACKS. (M SKELSEY, 15.7.86). HH090/961/01 3.12.03 EXAM'D 15.7.03 IN 5025.692N, 0245.945W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 41.2 IN GEN DEPTH 50MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 67MTRS, WIDTH 9MTRS. DCS3 HT 7.1MTRS. LIES 161/341 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. DEBRIS LIES 35MTRS W WITH DIMENSIONS 12 BY 8 BY 2.3MTRS; 6MTRS S WITH DIMENSIONS 13 BY 9 BY 1.4MTRS AND 46MTRS SE WITH DIMENSIONS 9 BY 4 BY 0.9MTRS. UPRIGHT AND SLIGHTLY BROKEN. (GARDLINE, HI 961). AMEND WK 41MTRS. BR STD. 5.4.17 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, DEFENCE NO 147/2017. COMING INTO FORCE 3.3.17. AMEND "HISTORIC".
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: STERN HALF UPRIGHT

Position: 50 25.692 N,2 45.945 W

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