Wreck: Hms daring (Destroyer)

This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms daring, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 38.978 N,1 40.107 W (58.770716666667, -1.3808333333333)


 

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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง, 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.

 

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Shipwreck details

Name: HMS DARING

Length 99.4 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 2.7, tonnage 1375 ton

Cause: built in 1932 by thorneycroft. turbine engines of 36000 ihp. 3-drum boilers. four 4.7inch guns, 7 smaller. torpedoed and sunk by u-23. 5 survivors from crew of 162. (dods).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 110 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1993

Details measurements/cartography: H056/40 6.11.40 REPD SUNK IN 583900N, 014000W. BUT ALSO IN 582700N, 013700W IN ROSYTH WK LIST, 10.4.40, AND IN 583700N, 010600W BY A/S W725/40, RA(D), HOME FLEET. IN VIEW OF CONFLICTING POSITIONS, EACH APPROX, NCA. FOR FILING ONLY. 5.10.93 SUNK IN 584000N, 014000E. (AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 38.978 N,1 40.107 W

 

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