This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms fortune, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 0.163 N,6 10.926 E (55.8743833, 6.41565)

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 FORTUNE

Length 81.1 meter, width: 8.2 meter, draught: 2.7, tonnage 950 ton

Cause: Built in 1912 by farifield co. yarrow boilers, turbine engines of 25000 ihp for 32 knots. three 4 inch guns, 4 torpedo tubes. a unit of the 4th flotilla at the battle of jutland. took part in the torpedo attacks which developed after nightfall. at about 1130pm came under heavy fire from german battleships making for the horn reefs. was set on fire and sank. 67 men lost, 1 man saved. (dods).

Year of registration: 1916

Water depth above wreck: 42 meter

Known since: 1916, last detected: 1983

Details measurements/cartography: 2.3.72 NDW SHOWN IN 560015N, 061100E ON GERMAN WK CHART 82 [1971 EDN] & GERMAN 82 [1971 EDN]. 2.8.72 SHOWN IN 560020N, 061100E ON DANISH FISHERIES CHART 5604. 7.8.72 SHOWN IN 560020N, 061110E ON DANISH FISHERIES CHART 5506. 11.10.77 STILL SHOWN ON GERMAN WK CHART 82 [1976 EDN], BUT NOT ON DANISH 93. NC 2182B. H4147/82 17.1.84 NDW SHOWN IN 560015N, 061100E ON DANISH 93 [INT 1044] [OCT 1983]. BR STD. 9.5.17 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, DEFENCE NO 147/2017. COMING INTO FORCE 3.3.17. AMEND "HISTORIC".
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 56 0.163 N,6 10.926 E

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