This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms exmoor , the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 30.292 N,2 5.008 E (52.437016666667, 1.7918333333333)

 

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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. Abeona
2. Alto (possibly)
3. Astrologer
4. Atle
5. Avonwood
6. Axminster (probably)
7. Begona no 5
8. Bob read (probably)
9. Boulderpool (after part)
10. Bovey tracy
11. Boy karl
12. British captain
13. Burtonia (possibly)
14. Bygdo (possibly)
15. Castle galleon
16. Cd 14 (probably)
17. City of kobe
18. Claudia (possibly)
19. Cormead
20. Crichtoun
21. Cross sand ltv
22. Django
23. Dronning maud (possibly)
24. Edernian
25. Edinardue antoinette (possibly)
26. El argentino
27. El dorado
28. Excellenz mehnert
29. Fidelio
30. Firth
31. Frumenton
32. Gasfire
33. George fisher
34. Gipsy (possibly)
35. Girl linda
36. Glen tilt (possibly)
37. Glynn
38. Groenlo
39. Gulf breaker
40. H h petersen
41. Helena
42. Hms bracklyn (possibly)
43. Hms cantatrice
44. Hms christopher (possibly)
45. Hms condor (probably)
46. Hms dhoon (probably)
47. Hms donside (possibly)
48. Hms evesham (possibly)
49. Hms exmoor
50. Hms fontenoy
51. Hms force
52. Hms glen prosen
53. Hms irvana (part of)
54. Hms jessie nutten
55. Hms kaphreda
56. Hms ocean plough (possibly)
57. Hms orthos (probably)
58. Hms pelton (probably)
59. Hms speeton (possibly)
60. Hms tettenhall
61. Hms tugela
62. Hmsm d5
63. Hornchurch
64. Kenneth hawksfield
65. Knitsley (part of)(probably)
66. Knitsley (possibly)
67. La perouse (possibly)
68. Langeli (possibly)
69. Lapwing
70. Lapwing (possibly)
71. Liliane (possibly)
72. Lindisfarne (probably)
73. Lingfield
74. Mardyke
75. Maria rosa
76. Marianne (probably)
77. Mascota (possibly)
78. Mascotte
79. Memento (possibly)
80. Merchant
81. Mercurius
82. Mirella
83. Montferland
84. Mudo
85. Murdoch (probably)
86. Navarra (possibly)
87. Nereus
88. Newhaven (possibly)
89. Newland (possibly)
90. Nominoe
91. Nordborg (possibly)
92. Novocastrian
93. Oil trader
94. Otis tarda
95. Philipp m
96. Pluton
97. Quest
98. Ren
99. Rhineland
100. Robin iv
101. Robrix
102. Rochester city
103. Rogate
104. Rye
105. Scotia
106. Sea rhine
107. Silksworth hall (probably).
108. Skodsburg (possibly)
109. Southford
110. St patrick
111. Stad alkmaar
112. Stanmount
113. Strive
114. Sunniside (probably)
115. Taber park
116. Thomas m (possibly)
117. Tidal (possibly)
118. Togston
119. Tregantle (possibly)
120. Trevethoe
121. U 13 (probably)
122. Uc 62 (possibly)
123. Vanguard
124. Viola (possibly)
125. Virgilia
126. War mehtar
127. War valley
128. Wyetown
129. Yewvalley (possibly)
130. Yucca (possibly)

 

Name: HMS EXMOOR

Length 85.3 meter, width: 8.8 meter, draught: 2.4, tonnage 907 ton

Cause: built in 1940 by vickers armstrong, the tyne. a hunt class (group 1) vessel. s turbines for 19000bhp, quarduple shaft. four x 4 inch guns, 1 x 4.2 prd, 20mm aa guns. torpedoed by e-boat s.30 then sank after an explosion. 104 lives lost.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 33 meter, Height above seabed: 13 cm

Known since: 1945, last detected: 20170314

Details measurements/cartography: H0853/41 26.2.41 HMS EXMOOR SUNK IN 522800N, 020400E. (C IN C NORE 26.2.41). H03210/45 15.6.45 PROBABLE WK, HEIGHT 12FT. (NORE LIST 15.6.45). H3730/69 1.6.69 LEAST E/S DEPTH 77FT IN GEN DEPTH 102FT. SCOUR 118FT. (HMS BULLDOG, 15.5.69). INS AS WK 13FMS. BR STD. H4398/71 15.9.71 LOCATED IN 523019N, 020505E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 21.9MTRS IN 33.0MTRS. NO SCOUR. SMALL WRECK. LIES N/S. 150FT LONG WITH ISOLATED PIECE OF WRECKAGE ABOUT 100FT S. (HMS ENTERPRISE, 29 2.6.71). AMEND TO WK 12FMS. BR STD. H4629/71 20.1.72 IDENTIFIED AS A DESTROYER. TWIN PROPS. LARGE QUANTITY OF HIGH QUALITY HIGH EXPLOSIVE DEPTH CHARGES (E GILES, 9.1.72). 5.4.72 AMEND TO WK 22MTRS NC 1543. HH090/616/01 25.10.94 EXAM'D 23.6.94 IN 523014.5N, 020506.7E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [3 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 24.8, FOUL 25.1MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 25.7 IN GEN DEPTH 33.0MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 6.5MTRS. LENGTH 85MTRS, WIDTH 13MTRS. LIES 003/183 DEGS. INTACT AND PROBABLY UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 616). AMEND TO SW 24.5MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/20 30.7.03 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. THIS IS DESTROYER AND HAS TWIN 4 INCH GUNS AT BOW AND STERN. THE STERN IS ON THE PORT SIDE AND THERE ARE TWO PROPSHAFTS CLEAR OF THE SEABED. PROPS HAVE BEEN SALVAGED. ASSUME THERE ARE TWO MORE UNDER THE SEABED. THERE ARE NO SIGNS OF TORPEDO TUBES. CONSIDERED TO BE HMS EXMOOR. (D RONNAN, LTR DTD 27.7.03). NCA.(STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 1110/12). 5.4.17 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, DEFENCE NO 147/2017. COMING INTO FORCE 3.3.17. AMEND "HISTORIC". SEP 2017/000067039 4.8.17 EXAM'D 14.3.17 IN 5230.292N, 0205.008E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 26.43MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 33MTRS, LENGTH 88.5MTRS, WIDTH 12.9MTRS, HEIGHT 6.8MTRS, ORIENTATION 013/193 DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 111.6MTRS, 1.1MTRS DEEP, TOWARDS 179 DEGS. WRECK IS INTACT AND UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 1516). AMEND DW 26MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 30.292 N,2 5.008 E

 

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