This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms fame, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 40.75 N,1 55.98 W (50.679167, -1.933000)

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.

Name: HMS FAME

Length 23.6 meter, width: 5.6 meter, tonnage 68 ton

Cause: built of wood in 1901. managed by william slater, buckpool, banff. hired from october 1916 as a net defence drifted based with the southern auxillary patrol force in poole. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 18 nhp, single shaft. passage north shields for poole. ran aground on the hook sands in a se gale. (d c wendes).

Year of registration: 1925

Water depth above wreck: 1 meter

Known since: 1925, last detected: 2006

Details measurements/cartography: H2103/25 SHOWN AS ST IN 504041N, 015556W ON SURVEY [C9533]. (HMS FLINDERS, APR 1924). NE 2175. H3669/34 7.6.34 DELETED FROM CHARTS. (HMS FLINDERS, HN). AMENDED TO DEAD. 30.1.07 LIES IN 5040.75N, 0155.98W [WGD]. UPRIGHT, ENGINE AND BOILER ARE THE HIGHEST PARTS. COVERS AND UNCOVERS WITH SAND. (D C WENDES, SOUTH COAST SHIPWRECKS). AMEND LIVE. INS AS FOUL. BR STD. 15.12.14 SHOWN IN DRYING AREA ON LATEST SURVEY. (RT, 15.12.14). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BOILER/ENGINE HIGHEST PARTS

Position: 50 40.75 N,1 55.98 W

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