This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms dirk, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 7.234 N,0 6.464 E (54.346067, -0.127083)

 

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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. Agnes
2. Airdrie (possibly)
3. Albatross
4. Appolonia
5. Arctic viking
6. Aucuba (possibly)
7. Avance (probably)
8. Beaconsfield
9. Bellerophon
10. Biesbosch
11. Birtley
12. Blejan eyhre
13. Boys own
14. Brabant
15. Brema
16. Briton (possibly)
17. Cadmus
18. Cambrai
19. Caroline
20. Chant 63
21. Charing cross (possibly)
22. Chicago
23. Chloris (possibly)
24. Commonwealth
25. Cyclope
26. Dana (possibly)
27. Deptford
28. Diana
29. Dryade
30. Dunstaffnage
31. Elfrida
32. Feltre
33. Forest queen
34. Frithof eide
35. Girl ita
36. Goodwood
37. Graafjeld
38. Greltoria (probably)
39. Hannah
40. Hannah louisa
41. Harnis (probably)
42. Helmsman (probably)
43. Hercules
44. Hms akranes
45. Hms dirk
46. Hms fairy
47. Hms falcon (stern section)
48. Hms falmouth
49. Hms thalia
50. Hms thomas cornwall
51. Holmar i
52. Horsted
53. Hugh taylor
54. Ida
55. J b paddon
56. Jerv
57. John rettig (probably)
58. Kalo (probably)
59. Kernoozer
60. Kilrea
61. Kilrea (probably)
62. Kimberley (possibly)
63. Kingston cameo
64. Knuthenborg
65. Laconia (possibly)
66. Lady anstruther (probably)
67. Lady josyan
68. Landport (possibly)
69. Leander
70. Lifeguard (possibly)
71. Lindum
72. Longbenton (probably)
73. Malvina (fwd part)
74. Manchester engineer (probably)
75. Markersdall (probably)
76. Mazeppa
77. Middlesborough
78. Mongolian
79. Nitedal
80. Onward (possibly)
81. Our lorraine
82. Paddington (possibly) & unknown
83. Peebles (possibly)
84. Potomac
85. Realf
86. Riviere
87. Rosa
88. Runswick
89. Seistan
90. Sirajah
91. Sna iii
92. Sota eduardo
93. Sote (aft part)
94. Stanburn
95. Storm drift
96. Tangistan
97. Tees
98. Thea
99. Togston (possibly)
100. Tredegar hall
101. Trongate
102. Ub 107 & malvina (after part)
103. Uc 39
104. Uc 47
105. Uc 75
106. Umbe
107. Upminster (possibly)
108. Varangmalm (possibly)
109. Ville de valenciennes
110. War crocus (possibly)
111. Wayside flower (possibly)
112. Zeepaard

 

Name: HMS DIRK

Length 38.2 meter, width: 5.9 meter, draught: 2.6, tonnage 181 ton

Cause: built 1909 by scott & sons, bowling, with 2 cylinder compound engine of 70hp, 1 boiler, single shaft. machinery by ross & duncan, glasgow. originally owned by david macbrayne ltd for use as a ferry. requistioned in 1917 for use as a submarine patrol vessel. torpedoed & sunk by german submarine uc 75 off flamborough hd. (ships of the royal navy, ww1sl, sibi, wrecksite.eu)

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 49 meter, Height above seabed: 286 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20160310

Details measurements/cartography: 7.6.18 SUNK IN 540820N, 001100E. (VAEC AP REPORT). H5084/77 18.3.80 EXAM'D 28.11.79 IN 540712N, 000635E [OGB] USING HIFIX.6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 46.4 IN GEN DEPTH 50MTRS. DCS3 HT 4.1MTRS, LENGTH 40MTRS. LYING E/W ON SMOOTH GRAVEL. (HMS EGERIA, HI 64/79). INS AS WK 45MTRS. BR STD. H1310/84/43 3.7.86 FOUL REPD IN 540648N, 000656E. POSN BY DECCA. (W R DODGSON 28.11.84). NCA. HH090/730/01 19.12.97 EXAM'D 13.6.97 IN 540714.0N, 000627.9E [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 45.8 IN GEN DEPTH 49.0MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 2.5MTRS. LENGTH 40MTRS, WIDTH 7MTRS. LIES 102/282 DEGS. SMALL, POORLY DEFINED WK. SAND ENCROACHMENT OVER THE MAJORITY OF THE WK. (GARDLINE, HI 730). AMEND POSN. BR STD. 2.4.09 WK KNOWN TO BE HMS DIRK. IDENTITY BASED ON MATCHING MACHINERY, LENGTH & POSN OF LOSS, MACBRAYNE CROCKERY RECOVERD IN 2008, NUMBER OF TOILETS ON BOARD & PRESENCE OF AMMUNITION. KNOWN LOCALLY AS MAIL BOAT. (CARL RACEY, E-MAIL DTD 30.3.09) NCA. SEP 2016/000053291 5.10.16 EXAM'D 10.3.16; IN 5407.234N, 0006.464E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 45.34MTRS, GEN DEPTH 49.3MTRS. LENGTH 40.3MTRS, WIDTH 8.38MTRS, HT 4.21MTRS, ORIENTATION 286/106 DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY, WK BROKEN UP. (MMT, HI 1473, H525_6494). AMEND NDW 45MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WK BROKEN UP

Position: 54 7.234 N,0 6.464 E

 

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