This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms grive, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 59 25.2 N,2 21.168 W (59.308216666667, -2.5270666666667)

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 GRIVE

Length 89.7 meter, width: 12.5 meter, tonnage 2037 ton

Cause: 8.12.1917 built in 1905 by caledon for general steam navigation co. hired as armed boarding steamer. torpedoed on 8.12.1917 off lerwick by german submarine uc40. vessel sank while under tow in nw gale from lerwick on 24.12.1917. no lives lost. (k heath)

Year of registration: 2008

Water depth above wreck: 55 meter, Height above seabed: 37 cm

Known since: 2008, last detected: 2010

Details measurements/cartography: HH091/218/01 - SEP 2008/000044061 15.5.08 EXAMINED 24.6.07 IN 5925.1995N, 0221.1678W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 49.10 IN GEN DEPTH 55.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 98MTRS (POSSIBLY UP TO 134MTRS), WIDTH 32MTRS, HT 6.4MTRS. LIES 037/217DEGS WITH BOWS SW. VERY BROKEN UP WITH JUST A SHADOW ON THE SEABED INDICATING THE BOWS AND STERN. CENTRE PART APPEARS TO CONSIST OF 3 BOILERS. (NETSURVEY, HI 1218). PROBABLY TWO BOILERS AND THE ENGINE. INS AS WK 49MTRS.

- NM 3445/08. 23.9.08 RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT THIS WRECK IS MOST PROBABLY HMS GRIVE, FROM SINKING POSN GIVEN IN LOG OF ESCORTING HM TRAWLER LUMBLEY CASTLE. CINC REQUESTED. (K HEATH E-MAIL DTD 12.9.08) NCA. 4.8.10 DIVED AND CONFIRMED TO BE HMS GRIVE. REMOVE CINC. (K HEATH, TELECON 4.8.10) CINC REMOVED. NCA. 18.8.10 WK DIVED AGAIN ON 17.8.10 AND BELL ENGRAVED "GRIVE" RECOVERED. (K HEATH, TELECON 18.8.10) NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: VERY BROKEN UP, ?BOILERS & ENGINE REMAIN, ?BOWS SW

Position: 59 25.2 N,2 21.168 W

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