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, 2.5103666666667)

 

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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. A 10 (possibly)
2. A-15 (possibly)
3. Aloha
4. Anton hammerbacher
5. Apache
6. Ardmount
7. Auretta
8. Birkenfels
9. Bourrasque
10. Bowsprite (bow section)
11. Bowsprite (bow section)
12. Bramden (possibly)
13. Breda
14. Clan macalister
15. Clan macneil (possibly)
16. Cmb 1
17. Cmb 71a
18. Croxteth hall
19. Dageraad
20. Dawdon
21. De wandilaar
22. Dortmund
23. Douaisien (possibly)
24. Emeraude
25. Empire path
26. Etendard
27. Fl5
28. Floride (probably)
29. G 96
30. Gold shell
31. Harpalyce
32. Heinkel 111
33. Hm motor launch 561
34. Hms basilisk
35. Hms brilliant
36. Hms colsay
37. Hms gracie fields
38. Hms grafton
39. Hms grafton
40. Hms hayburn wyke
41. Hms keith
42. Hms plumpton (probably)
43. Hms polly johnson
44. Hms sirius
45. Hms skipjack
46. Hms st abbs
47. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
48. Hms wakeful
49. Hms waverley
50. Hms whitley
51. Hoop op vrede (n 741)
52. Horst
53. John mahn
54. Kap arkona
55. Kestrel
56. Keulse vaart iv
57. Kilmore
58. Laura
59. Lct(r) 457
60. Lorina
61. Lorina (possibly)
62. Lst 420 (bow section)
63. Lst 420 (stern section)
64. Lucy jenny ii
65. M 3610
66. Marie
67. Marie
68. Mariner (possibly)
69. Maurice
70. Mont louis
71. Msc alyssa
72. Mts vector
73. Nashaba
74. Nautica ena
75. Normandie
76. P 319
77. Putten
78. Queen of the channel (possibly)
79. Quo vadis
80. Ra.2 (possibly)
81. Rijnstroom
82. Rita
83. Robert l vann
84. Robert-clara
85. S 168
86. S 220
87. S.192 (possibly)
88. Sabrina
89. Saint therese de jesus
90. Sampa
91. Sea hunter
92. Senator holthusen
93. Senator sthamer
94. Sigurds faulbaums
95. Sperrbrecher 170 (probably)
96. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
97. St fagan
98. Sterre der zee
99. Torpilleur branlebas
100. Tringa
101. U 11
102. Ub 13
103. Ub29
104. Uc 1
105. V 201 (possibly)
106. Vlaanderen (probably)
107. West-hinder
108. Wielingen ii (possibly)
109. Wielingen ltv
110. Wolf
111. Zeester

 

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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