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 (52.4370167, 1.7918333)

 

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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. Boulderpool (after part)
9. Bovey tracy
10. Boy karl
11. British captain
12. Burtonia (possibly)
13. Bygdo (possibly)
14. Castle galleon
15. Cd 14 (probably)
16. City of kobe
17. Claudia (possibly)
18. Cormead
19. Crichtoun
20. Cross sand ltv
21. Django
22. Dronning maud (possibly)
23. Edernian
24. Edinardue antoinette (possibly)
25. El argentino
26. El dorado
27. Excellenz mehnert
28. Fidelio
29. Firth
30. Frumenton
31. Gasfire
32. George fisher
33. Gipsy (possibly)
34. Girl linda
35. Glen tilt (possibly)
36. Glynn
37. Groenlo
38. Gulf breaker
39. H h petersen
40. Helena
41. Hms bracklyn (possibly)
42. Hms christopher (possibly)
43. Hms condor (probably)
44. Hms dhoon (probably)
45. Hms donside (possibly)
46. Hms evesham (possibly)
47. Hms exmoor
48. Hms fontenoy
49. Hms force
50. Hms glen prosen
51. Hms irvana (part of)
52. Hms jessie nutten
53. Hms kaphreda
54. Hms ocean plough (possibly)
55. Hms orthos (probably)
56. Hms pelton (probably)
57. Hms speeton (possibly)
58. Hms tettenhall
59. Hms tugela
60. Hmsm d5
61. Hornchurch
62. Kenneth hawksfield
63. Knitsley (part of)(probably)
64. Knitsley (possibly)
65. La perouse (possibly)
66. Langeli (possibly)
67. Lapwing
68. Liliane (possibly)
69. Lindisfarne (probably)
70. Lingfield
71. Mardyke
72. Maria rosa
73. Marianne (probably)
74. Mascota (possibly)
75. Mascotte
76. Memento (possibly)
77. Merchant
78. Mercurius
79. Mirella
80. Montferland
81. Mudo
82. Murdoch (probably)
83. Navarra (possibly)
84. Nereus
85. Newhaven (possibly)
86. Newland (possibly)
87. Nominoe
88. Nordborg (possibly)
89. Novocastrian
90. Oil trader
91. Otis tarda
92. Philipp m
93. Pluton
94. Quest
95. Ren
96. Rhineland
97. Robin iv
98. Robrix
99. Rochester city
100. Rogate
101. Rye
102. Scotia
103. Sea rhine
104. Silksworth hall (probably).
105. Skodsburg (possibly)
106. Southford
107. St patrick
108. Stad alkmaar
109. Stanmount
110. Strive
111. Sunniside (probably)
112. Taber park
113. Thomas m (possibly)
114. Tidal (possibly)
115. Togston
116. Tregantle (possibly)
117. Trevethoe
118. U 13 (probably)
119. Vanguard
120. Viola (possibly)
121. Virgilia
122. War mehtar
123. War valley
124. Wyetown
125. Yewvalley (possibly)
126. 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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