This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms crestflower, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 27.792 N,1 18.81 W (50.463200, -1.313500)

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 CRESTFLOWER

Length 45.7 meter, width: 7.6 meter, draught: 4, tonnage 55 ton

Cause: built in 1930 by cochrane & sons ltd, selby. purchased 8.1939 as a minesweeper. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 96nhp, single shaft. one 12 pdr gun. sunk by german aircraft. two men lost.

Year of registration: 1953

Water depth above wreck: 36 meter, Height above seabed: 125 cm

Known since: 1999, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: H1259/19 WK IN 502936N, 011748W. (WRECKS OFFICERS RECORD CARDS). H1259/19 WK IN 502900N, 011612W. (WRECKS RECORDS NAMES INDEX BOOK). 7.8.53 NOW CHARTED AS NDW PA IN 502936N, 011748W ON F6841. 24.5.54 NOW CHARTED AS NDW PA IN 502936N, 011748W. NC 2450. HH100/351/14 26.3.99 LOCATED IN 5027.767N, 0118.717W [OGB] USING DECCA. WRECK OF STEEL HULLED VESSEL, PROBABLY A WW2 ARMED TRAWLER. A LARGE GUN FROM THE FOREDECK LIES ON THE SEABED ALONGSIDE THE PORT BOW. HIGHEST POINTS ARE THE BOWS AND BOILER, STANDING WITH A MAX HEIGHT OF 4MTRS. SEABED SAND AND SHINGLE. (M PRITCHARD, 9.3.99). CHARTED DEPTH 34MTRS. INS AS WK 29MTRS.

- NM 1592/99. HH090/962/01 6.12.02 EXAM'D 26.7.02 IN 5027.777N, 0118.773W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 33.1, FOUL 31.5MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 31.5 IN GEN DEPTH 35MTRS. SCOUR 1.2MTRS DEEP EXTENDS 13MTRS TOWARDS 125 DEGS. LIES 125/305 DEGS. POOR MAGNETIC ANOMALY. APPEARS PARTLY BURIED WITH SCOUR TO THE SE. M WOODWARD CONFIRMS WK AS HMS CRESTFLOWER. (GARDLINE, HI 962). AMEND TO SW 33MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2020/000123102 13.10.21 EXAM’D 3.10.20 IN 5027.792N, 0118.810W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 30.09MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 36MTRS. LENGTH 55MTRS, WIDTH 13MTRS, HT 6.2MTRS. ORIENTATION 125/305 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 9MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS, 2MTRS DEEP. (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY AB, HI 1586). AMEND DW 30MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, HIGH POINTS BOWS AND BOILER

Position: 50 27.792 N,1 18.81 W

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