This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms curacao, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 50.315 N,8 38.123 W (55.808183333333, -8.5849333333333)

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 CURACAO

Length 137.2 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 4290 ton

Cause: built in 1917 by pembroke dockyard. yarrow boilers, turbine engines of 40,000 shp for 29 knots. eight 4 inch aa guns, several smaller. on escort duty with a convoy from america bound for the clyde while escoring rms queen mary. in thick weather queen mary's lookout reported a submarine on the port bow. the liner altered to stbd. curacoa, at full speed and steaming for the submarine, crossed the bows of the cunard liner and was struck midships and cut in two. both parts passed each side of the queen mary and sank. 25 officers and 313 ratings were killed. the captain and 25 others were rescued. (dods).

Year of registration: 1942

Water depth above wreck: 122 meter, Height above seabed: 120 cm

Known since: 1942, last detected: 2005

Details measurements/cartography: H1173/66 2.6.66 EXAMINED 4.11.65. IN TWO PARTS: (A) 555024N, 083803W: (B) 555008N, 083827W. LEAST E/S DEPTH 372FT IN GEN DEPTH 415FT. NO SCOUR. SEABED SAND. VERY STRONG SONAR RETURN TO THE N & NE. (HMS DALRYMPLE, 1965). INS AS WK 62FMS. BR STD. 15.8.79 SHOWN AS WKS 113.0 MTRS IN POSN 555024N, 083803W. NC 2723. 6.11.00 OTHER PART TO BE SHOWN SEPARATELY. SEE [3419]. AMEND TO WK 113MTRS. BR STD. 17.4.07 LOCATED IN 5550.315N, 0838.123W [WGD] USING DGPS. GEN DEPTH 122MTRS. LENGTH 54MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS, HT 7.5MTRS. (INSS SURVEY 1999-2005). LIES 120/300 DEGS. SCOUR EXTENDS SOME 50MTRS NW FROM THE NW END. RETAIN AS WK 113MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.(STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 1110/12). 5.4.17 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, DEFENCE NO 147/2017. COMING INTO FORCE 3.3.17. AMEND "HISTORIC".
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, SCOUR TO NW END (BOW SECTION)

Position: 55 50.315 N,8 38.123 W

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