This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms endeavour, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 59 1.499 N,2 56.642 W (58.844716666667, -3.1926833333333)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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 ENDEAVOUR
Length 31 meter, width: 6 meter, tonnage 156 ton
Cause: built in 1894 as a trawler. employed in ww1 as a boom defence vessel. lost in collision with an unknown vessel. (johnson). hired in 1915. foundered after collision with kirkwall boom. (colledge). sunk at kirkwall boom, 029.5degs, 2.8c from s point of thieves holm, following collision. (off scotland).
Year of registration: 2000
Water depth above wreck: 21 meter
Known since: 2000, last detected: 2010
Details measurements/cartography: HH100/351/16 12.10.00 DIVED IN 5901.500N, 0256.618W [WGD] USING GPS. STANDS 6MTRS HIGH BY DEPTH GAUGE. MEASURED LENGTH 45MTRS, BEAM 6MTRS. SCOUR SOME 2MTRS DEEP AT THE STERN. MINOR DEBRIS & THE MAST OFF THE STBD SIDE. UPRIGHT & INTACT WITH 10-20DEG LIST TO STBD. PROPELLOR & RUDDER IN PLACE. WHEELHOUSE MISSING. WINDING GEAR & BOOM WIRE IN THE HOLD AREA. (T JOHNSON, LTR DTD 10.10.00). HH268/430/04 30.10.00 CHART AS WK 14MTRS. (T JOHNSON).
- NM 4649/00. 5.10.10 EXAM'D IN 5901.4993N, 0256.6425W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 16.16MTRS. (FATHOMS LTD, POST SDC BATHY REPROCESSING). INTACT. AMEND WK 16.1MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT & UPRIGHT
Position: 59 1.499 N,2 56.642 W