This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms colsay, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 14.8 N,2 47.855 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. Ardmount
7. Auretta
8. Bourrasque
9. Bowsprite (bow section)
10. Bowsprite (bow section)
11. Charles d mciver
12. Cmb 1
13. Cmb 71a
14. Croxteth hall
15. Dageraad
16. Dawdon
17. De wandilaar
18. Dortmund
19. Emeraude
20. Empire path
21. Etendard
22. Fl5
23. Francis asbury
24. G 96
25. Gold shell
26. Heinkel 111
27. Hm motor launch 561
28. Hms basilisk
29. Hms brilliant
30. Hms colsay
31. Hms gracie fields
32. Hms grafton
33. Hms grafton
34. Hms hayburn wyke
35. Hms maori
36. Hms plumpton (probably)
37. Hms polly johnson
38. Hms sirius
39. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
40. Hms wakeful
41. Hms waverley
42. Hms whitley
43. Hoop op vrede (n 741)
44. John mahn
45. Kap arkona
46. Keulse vaart iv
47. Kilmore
48. Lct(r) 457
49. Lst 420 (bow section)
50. Lst 420 (stern section)
51. Lucy jenny ii
52. M 3610
53. Marie
54. Mariner (possibly)
55. Maurice
56. Mont louis
57. Msc alyssa
58. Nashaba
59. Nautica ena
60. Neutron
61. Neutron
62. Nippon
63. P 319
64. Putten
65. Queen of the channel (possibly)
66. Quo vadis
67. Ra.2 (possibly)
68. Rita
69. Robert l vann
70. Robert-clara
71. S 168
72. S 220
73. S.192 (possibly)
74. Sabrina
75. Saint therese de jesus
76. Sampa
77. Samsip
78. Samvern (w part)
79. Senator holthusen
80. Senator sthamer
81. Sigurds faulbaums
82. Slera ventana
83. Sperrbrecher 170 (probably)
84. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
85. Torpilleur branlebas
86. U 11
87. Ub 13
88. Ub29
89. Vlaanderen (probably)
90. Wolf
91. Zeester

 

Name: HMS COLSAY

Length 50 meter, width: 8.5 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 554 ton

Cause: 'island' class trawler. built by cook, welton & gemmel 1943. sunk by human torpedo while off ostend. (ww2sl & srn).

Year of registration: 1944

Water depth above wreck: 8 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1944, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H03799/44 15.12.44 DW IN POSN 511442N, 024800E. INS AS DWPA.

- NM 2791/44. 11.5.55 POSN NOW GIVEN AS 511445N, 024800E. LC 125. H6232/55 12.12.55 POSN 511448N, 024718E. LEAST DEPTH BY E/S 16FT. (OSTENDE NM 21/99/55). BR STD. 16.11.64 POSN NOW 511445N, 024730E. (GRADUATION CHANGE). NC 125. H5262/56 4.11.69 AMEND SW 3FMS 1FT IN 511450N, 024753E [EUR] ON 125 & LC 1872. H3587/70 1.7.70 NOT SHOWN ON BELGIAN SURVEY - K5889 ME. NCA. H3280/66 2.2.71 POSN 511450N, 024753E [EUR]. BELIEVED TO BE HMS COLSAY. PREVIOUSLY FILED IN 511448N, 024718E. H3280/66 2.2.71 AMEND SW 5.8MTRS. NC 125. 12.10.76 SHOWN AS SW 5.9 MTRS ON BELGIAN SURVEY K7491. NE 125. H4489/76 29.1.85 NOW SW 7.2MTRS IN 511450.7N, 024755.9E [EUR]. (OSTENDE NM 136/84). BR STD. H1310/88/28 10.6.88 CONFIRMED AS HMS COLSAY. LIES N/S IN 3 PARTS - BOW SECTION UPSIDE DOWN, WITH DEEP SCOUR (TO 16MTRS) ALONGSIDE; MIDSHIP SECTION UPRIGHT BUT NO MORE THAN HEAP OF TWISTED IRON WITH COAL SCATTERED AROUND; STERN SECTION IN REASONABLE CONDITION, LISTING HEAVILY TO PORT. LEAST DEPTH OVER WK ABOUT 7MTRS. (D TERMOTE, 15.5.88). SEP 2010/000138707 18.10.10 SHOWN AS SW 7.1MTRS [LAT] IN 5114.800N, 0247.855E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 102 [NE 1.6.10, 1:60,000].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: IN THREE PARTS

Position: 51 14.8 N,2 47.855 E

 

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