Wreck: Hms grafton (Destroyer)

This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms grafton, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 21.95 N,2 41.92 E (51.1325, 2.5103667)


 

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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง, 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.

 

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Shipwreck details

Name: HMS GRAFTON

Length 95.1 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 2.7, tonnage 1335 ton

Cause: Vessel built 1935 by thornycroft & co ltd. turbine engines. three drum boilers. torpedoed by german e-boat near kwinte buoy, whilst attempting to pick up survivors from hms wakeful, which also had been torpedoed, during the evacuation of allied troops from dunkirk. (dods & r verpoorte).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 20 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1990

Details measurements/cartography: [NO DATE] POSN APPROX 512200N, 024200E [EUR] , FOR FILING ONLY. HH100/351/02 1.6.90 HMS GRAFTON NOT YET FOUND. WAS APPARENTLY FINALLY SUNK BY GUNFIRE FROM HMS IVANHOE AND SHE PROBABLY DRIFTED FOR SOME TIME BEFORE THIS OCCURED. (D TERMOTE, 19.4.90). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 21.95 N,2 41.92 E

 

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