This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms force, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 48.54 N,1 47.493 E (52.7504, 2.0371)

 

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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. Aberhill
3. Actuosity (possibly)
4. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
5. Alice taylor
6. Alster
7. Alston
8. Artemisia
9. Avonwood
10. Barrhill
11. Begona no 5
12. Bertha
13. Boulderpool (after part)
14. British triumph
15. Camilla weston
16. Cantabria (probably)
17. Cardanel
18. Castle galleon
19. Chevington
20. City of kobe
21. Clansman (possibly)
22. Corchester
23. Cordene
24. Corduff
25. Cormead
26. Courier (probably)
27. Crichtoun
28. Cross sand ltv
29. Dashwood
30. David b summers
31. Efos
32. El dorado
33. Ems
34. English trader
35. Ethel
36. Ethel radcliffe
37. Excellenz mehnert
38. Friesland
39. Fulgens
40. Galatea (possibly)
41. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
42. Gardenia
43. Geneva
44. George fisher
45. Georgia (for'd part)
46. Glen derry (probably)
47. Glen tilt (possibly)
48. Glynn
49. Hauxley (possibly)
50. Hector gannet
51. Helena
52. Hms agate
53. Hms dhoon (probably)
54. Hms dungeness
55. Hms exmoor
56. Hms force
57. Hms francolin
58. Hms glen prosen
59. Hms irvana (part of)
60. Hms kaphreda
61. Hms m a west (probably)
62. Hms pelton (probably)
63. Hms speeton (possibly)
64. Hms tettenhall
65. Hms tonbridge
66. Hms tranio
67. Hms true accord (probably)
68. Hms washington (probably)
69. Hms william stephen
70. Hmsm c 11
71. Hmsm d5
72. I t l anna b
73. Ilse
74. Ionian (probably)
75. Kentwood (probably)
76. King egbert
77. Knitsley (part of)(probably)
78. Knitsley (possibly)
79. La perouse (possibly)
80. Langeli (possibly)
81. Leelite
82. Leopold ii
83. Lindisfarne (probably)
84. Londoner (probably)
85. Mardyke
86. Marsworth
87. Montferland
88. Murdoch (probably)
89. Navarra (possibly)
90. Nereus
91. Nordborg (possibly)
92. Norman queen
93. Oil trader
94. Ole bull
95. Osprey
96. Otter
97. Oxshott (possibly)
98. Pacific (possibly)
99. Pegrix
100. Pluton
101. Polaris
102. Prima
103. Regain
104. Robrix
105. Rogate
106. Roine
107. Rose marie
108. Roxanna
109. Roy
110. Rye
111. Seagull
112. Seaham
113. Sheaf water
114. Silksworth hall (probably).
115. St mark
116. Stanmount
117. Thomas m (possibly)
118. Tregantle (possibly)
119. Trevethoe
120. Upminster
121. Vanguard
122. Viola (possibly)
123. Waldinge
124. Walkure
125. War valley
126. Whintown (possibly)
127. White swan
128. White swan (possibly)
129. Willowpool
130. Xanthe
131. Yewvalley (possibly)

 

Name: HMS FORCE

Length 42.2 meter, width: 7.2 meter, draught: 3.9, tonnage 324 ton

Cause: Ex-franciszka '39, ex-cape tarifa '38, ex-stoneferry '34. built in 1917 by cochrane & sons ltd, selby. single boiler, triple expansion engine of 100 nhp, single shaft. machinery by c d holmes & co ltd, hull. hired as minesweeper in feb 1940. bombed and sunk by german aircraft. (sibi)

Year of registration: 1983

Water depth above wreck: 36 meter, Height above seabed: 140 cm

Known since: 1983, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: H2053/82 20.9.83 EXAM'D 19.5.83 IN 524831N, 014737E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 29.9 IN GEN DEPTH 36MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 37MTRS. DCS3 HT 6MTRS, LENGTH 50MTRS, APPROX. LYING 160/340 DEGS. PROBABLY HMS FORCE. (HMS ECHO, HI 125). INS AS WK 29.5MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/04 27.3.91 DIVED. LARGE WK LYING INTACT AND ON ITS SIDE. HAS SMALL GUN, ON A ROTATING PLATFORM, MOUNTED ON FO'C'SLE. SUPERSTRUCTURE STILL INTACT. WK STANDS 6MTRS ABOVE SEABED. (R W HICKINBOTTOM, 24.2.91). 28.10.04 [EUT] POSN: 5248.542N, 0147.506E. NE 106. 19.8.08 DIVED 16.8.08 IN LISTED POSN. LEAST DEPTH 30MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 36MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 39MTRS. NO DEBRIS FIELD. SEABED SAND. WRECK INTACT AND LYING ON ITS PORT SIDE. ALL DECK MISSING. A LARGE GUN AND MOUNT HAS FALLEN ONTO SEABED AT BOW. BRIDGE HAS COLLAPSED ONTO SEABED. THERE ARE 6 DEPTH CHARGES ON STERN SECTION, WHICH HAS A LARGE BREAK OR HOLE WHICH ALLOWS ENTRY INTO WRECK. (G BUXTON, E-MAIL DTD 19.8.08). NCA. 17.12.08 GUN NOW LIES ON SEABED DIRECTLY UNDER THE MOUNTING. ALL OF THE SUPERSTRUCTURE NOW BROKEN OFF AND LIES SCATTERED ON THE SEABED, FORMING A DEBRIS FIELD CLOSE TO THE WK. SMALL MAST OR REMNANTS OF A MAST RUNS FROM THE WK THROUGH THE DEBRIS FIELD AND DISAPPEARS INTO THE SAND. MOST OF THE DECKING HAS NOW GONE WITH SEVERAL HATCHWAYS OPEN. QUITE CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO THE STERN FORMING A LARGE OPENING IN THE HULL. (T BENJAFIELD). NCA. SEP 2014/000101130 29.1.214 EXAM'D 28.7.14 IN 5248.540N, 0147.493E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 29.76 IN GEN DEPTH 36MTRS. SCOUR 0.5MTR DEEP EXTENDS 25MTRS TOWARDS 135 DEGS. LENGTH 45MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS, HT 6.2MTRS. LIES 130/320 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. PARTLY DEGRADED WK. (GARDLINE GEOSURVEY, HI 1428). RETAIN WK 29.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, ON PORT SIDE, SUPERSTRUCTURE COLLAPSED

Position: 52 48.54 N,1 47.493 E

 

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