This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms keith, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 4.72 N,2 26.711 E (51.1325, 2.5103667)

 

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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.

 

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2. Bowsprite (bow section)
3. Bramden (possibly)
4. Brighton
5. Bruno heinemann (z.8)
6. Clan macalister
7. Clan macneil (possibly)
8. Cmb 71a
9. Dortmund
10. Douaisien (possibly)
11. Estafette
12. Etendard
13. Fennella
14. Fl5
15. Floride (probably)
16. Foudroyant
17. Foudroyant (possibly)
18. G 96
19. Ganko
20. Hms basilisk
21. Hms brighton queen
22. Hms gracie fields
23. Hms grafton
24. Hms grenade
25. Hms keith
26. Hms king orry
27. Hms skipjack
28. Hms st abbs
29. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
30. Hms wakeful
31. Hms waverley
32. Hms whitley
33. Horst
34. Jaguar
35. Kestrel
36. Keulse vaart iv
37. L'urtiga (possibly)
38. Laura
39. Le copain d'abord
40. Lorina
41. Lorina (possibly)
42. Lst 420 (stern section)
43. Mariner (possibly)
44. Marthe
45. Melrose
46. Mona's queen
47. P 319
48. Prinses astrid
49. Queen of the channel (possibly)
50. Quo vadis
51. R.93 (possibly)
52. Rita
53. Sabrina
54. Saint camille
55. Sigurds faulbaums
56. St fagan
57. Sterre der zee
58. Toquet
59. Torpilleur branlebas
60. Trifels
61. Tringa
62. Ub 29
63. Ub29
64. Uc 63
65. V 201 (possibly)
66. Vlaanderen (probably)
67. West-hinder
68. Wielingen ii (possibly)
69. Wolf
70. Zeester

 

Name: HMS KEITH

Length 95.1 meter, width: 9.8 meter, tonnage 1400 ton

Cause: Built in 1930 by j s white & co. 3-drum boilers, turbines of 34,000shp for 35 knots. four 4.7 inch guns, 6 smaller guns, 8 torpedo tubes. bombed and set on fire by german aircraft during evacuation of b.e.f. from dunkirk. was abandoned and sank. (ww2sl & dods).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 16 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: H0602/40 26.6.40 SANK AT ANCHOR NEAR NO 8 BUOY, DUNKIRK. POSN NOT CLEAR. NCA. H733/58 6.9.60 INS WK 4FMS 3FT. (FR 5513). NE 323. 11.9.72 AMEND WK 8.4MTRS. NC 323. H1283/76/118 7.9.76 POSN 510446.8N, 022613.8E [EUR] AND NAME TAKEN FROM FRENCH WRECK INFORMATION. (R A LEE OF DEAL). H2981/78 1.8.79 WK 7.9MTRS IN 510446N, 022648E [EUR]. (BREST NM 79 24 36). BR STD. 16.8.85 WK OF BRITISH DESTROYER IN 510446N, 022647E [EUR]. LEAST DEPTH 9.2 IN GEN DEPTH 17MTRS. 100MTRS LONG, LYING E/W. WELL-BROKEN UP. (ANNALES HYDROGRAPHIQUES, 1983). CONFIRMED AS WK OF HMS KEITH. LEAST DEPTH 7.9 IN GEN DEPTH 16MTRS. (FR WK 21612062). H1310/86/24 6.10.86 LIES ON PORT SIDE. INTACT EXCEPT FOR A FEW CRACKS ALONG HER SIDE. IDENTIFICATION CONFIRMED BY SHIPS CREST - HEAD OF WILD BOAR. (J COULON, 15.9.86). 6.2.89 [OGB] POSN: 510441N, 022649E. NC 323. [WGD] POSN: 5104.720N, 0226.711E. SEP 2016/000076595 20.9.16 SHOWN AS WK 9.1MTRS IN 5104.720N, 0226.711E [WGD] ON FR474240 & FRENCH 7424. [ED 3, 2016]. AMEND TO DW 9.1MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UK NM 419/20. INTACT, ON PORT SIDE

Position: 51 4.72 N,2 26.711 E

 

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