This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms dasher, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 37.742 N,5 0.969 W (55.861316666667, -4.9531166666667)

 

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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.

 

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2. Arab (possibly)
3. Beagle
4. Brent 1
5. Brent 2
6. Brent 3
7. Brent 4
8. Caledonian (possibly)
9. Carronade
10. Champion
11. Copia
12. Cormorant 1
13. Cormorant 2
14. Cormorant 3
15. Cumbrae
16. D46
17. D5
18. Derwent
19. Eagle (possibly)
20. Elf 3
21. Elf 4
22. Ellida
23. Fairy
24. Franleon
25. Glen shiel
26. Greenock
27. Hms arsenal (probably)
28. Hms dasher
29. Hms seagull
30. Hms topaze
31. Hmsm sealion
32. Janet mcnicol
33. Jeniver
34. Jubilee star
35. Kintyre
36. Lady gertrude
37. Laurrandine
38. Liz of ashton (possibly)
39. Lochshiel (possibly)
40. Marjorie seed
41. Moonlight
42. Nellie bywater
43. Ovington (probably)
44. Penola
45. Princess of wales (fore section)
46. Rhoda (possibly)
47. St dunstan
48. St kenan (possibly)
49. Strathdee
50. Tuscan
51. U 33
52. Urd (possibly)
53. Wallachia

 

Name: HMS DASHER

Length 150 meter, width: 20.1 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 13785 ton

Cause: 2.7.42 ex-rio de janeiro. converted from c-3 merchant vessel in 1941 by the sun shipbuilding company. transferred to the royal navy 2.7.42 on lend-lease. oil engines of 8500bhp. one 4 inch aa gun, four 40mm aa guns, eight 20mm aa guns. 15 aircraft. sank following petrol fire & explosion, thought to have been caused initially by aircraft attempting to land on carrier. 148 crew safe, 379 lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1943

Water depth above wreck: 142 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1943, last detected: 2007

Details measurements/cartography: H01928/43 12.4.44 POSN 553800N, 045700W, 5M S OF LITTLE CUMBRAE I. (AUTHORITY NOT KNOWN). H3126/56 8.5.56 POSN 554000N, 045700W. (HISTORICAL SECTION). H7551/68 17.1.69 LARGE WK LOCATED 27.5.68 IN 553737N, 050049W. LEAST E/S DEPTH 412 IN GEN DEPTH 466FT. ON A STEEP SLOPE. (HMS HYDRA, HI 27/68). NC 2724. H1922/76 25.2.76 NOT DETECTED BY DCS3 IN AREA SEARCH. NO CLOSE SEARCH OF POSN UNDERTAKEN. DEFINITELY DOES NOT PROJECT TO WITHIN 100MTRS OF SURFACE. (HMS HECLA, ROS DTD 6.2.76). NCA. H1310/81/2 23.1.81 HMS DASHER REPD TO HAVE SUNK IN 553736N, 050048W. POSSIBLY THIS WK. H1922/76 16.4.82 POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS WK OF HMS DASHER. LIES UPRIGHT IN 170 MTRS, WITH FLIGHT DECK INTACT AT 140MTRS. (NAVAL PARTY 1007, M.V. 'SEAFORTH CLANSMAN', DTD 23.3.82). NCA. H1922/76 17.4.84 LEAST DEPTH BY E/S 95MTRS IN 553744N, 050055W. (HMS BEAGLE, SIGNAL DTD 27.3.84). BR STD. H2885/83 13.5.85 EXAM'D 25.3.84 IN 553745N, 050053W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [4 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 94 IN GEN DEPTH 142MTRS. SCOUR 8MTRS DEEP. DCS3 HT 38MTRS, LENGTH 160MTRS APPROX. APPARENTLY UPRIGHT, LYING E/W WITH RAISED BRIDGE TOWARDS W END. SEVERAL SMALL CONTACTS LOCATED AROUND MAIN WK. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 165B). BR STD. HH100/351/16 31.10.00 WK IS UPRIGHT, AT A STEEP ANGLE, WITH THE BOWS W. THE WOODEN FLIGHT DECK HAS ROTTED AWAY IN PLACES. GEN DEPTH 170MTRS AT THE STERN TO 131MTRS AT THE BOW. (J STEELE, LETTER DTD 21.10.00). NCA. HH232/450/06 27.9.02 DESIGNATED AS PROTECTED MILITARY WRECK WITH RESTRICTED AREA RADIUS 200MTRS CENTRED ON 5537.747N, 0500.953W [WGD]. (STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 1761/02).

- NM 997/03. SEP 2006/000394419 30.10.06 STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 1761/02 CANCELLED. REDESIGNATED AS PROTECTED MILITARY WRECK WITH RESTRICTED AREA RADIUS 200MTRS CENTRED ON 5537.747N, 0500.953W [WGD]. (STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 2616/06). NCA. 28.4.08 PREVIOUS SI CANCELLED. REDESIGNATED AS PROTECTED MILITARY WRECK WITH RESTRICTED AREA RADIUS 200MTRS CENTRED ON 5537.747N, 0500.953W [WGD]. (STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 950/08). NCA. SEP 2008/000097008 5.12.08 LOCATED 30.5.07 IN 5537.742N, 0500.969W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 124 IN GEN DEPTH 151MTRS. MOST OF VESSEL IS STILL INTACT, HOWEVER SOME OF THE FLIGHT DECK HAS COLLAPSED MIDSHIPS AND THE FWD PART OF THE FLIGHTDECK IS MISSING ALSO. EXAM'D AS PART OF PUBLIC RELATIONS EXERCISE THUS NFS. (HMS ECHO, VIA CPO K DONNELLY, PORT SURVEYOR, HMNB FASLANE). AMEND WK 124MTRS IN DESIGNATED POSN. BR STD. 1.10.10 PREVIOUS SI CANCELLED. REDESIGNATED AS PROTECTED MILITARY WRECK WITH RESTRICTED AREA RADIUS 200MTRS CENTRED ON 5537.747N, 0500.953W [WGD]. (STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 3380/09). NCA. 16.6.17 PREVIOUS SI CANCELLED. REDESIGNATED AS PROTECTED MILITARY WRECK WITH RESTRICTED AREA RADIUS 200MTRS CENTRED ON 5537.742N, 0500.969W [WGD]. (STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 147/2017).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT & INTACT, BOW W, FLIGHT DECK COLLAPSING

Position: 55 37.742 N,5 0.969 W

 

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