This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms kingston jacinth (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 33.26 N,0 37.295 W (50.652366666667, -0.61618333333333)

 

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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. Afon dulais
2. Ala
3. Alaska
4. Algiers
5. Alison (possibly)
6. Angry fish
7. Ariel
8. Armenier
9. Arno (possibly)
10. Asger ryg
11. Atlas (probably)
12. Axwell
13. Basil-2
14. Cairndhu
15. Cambrian princess (probably)
16. Candia
17. Carbineer
18. City of mexico
19. Del rio
20. Donegal (possibly)
21. Duke of buccleuch
22. Fpt iv
23. Frode
24. Gartland
25. Gascony
26. Germa geisha
27. Giuseppina accame
28. Glenlee
29. Hedwig lunstedt
30. Highland corrie
31. Hmcs alberni
32. Hms evadne (possibly)
33. Hms hazardous
34. Hms implacable
35. Hms kingston jacinth (possibly)
36. Hms moldavia
37. Hms northcoates
38. Hms pine
39. Hms sapper
40. Hms vernon ii (possibly)
41. Hmsm a1
42. Indiana
43. Jaffa
44. Lightfoot (possibly)
45. Lola (possibly)
46. Lowmount
47. Marga
48. Marie marguerite (possibly)
49. Molesey (possibly)
50. Montecrana (possibly)
51. Ny-eeasteyr
52. Polandia (possibly)
53. Porthkerry
54. Ramsgarth
55. Ramsholm (possibly)
56. Rfa hungerford (possibly)
57. Saint andre (probably)
58. Saint enogat
59. Shirala
60. Sines (possibly)
61. Spearfish
62. Stanwold
63. Stavros (possibly)
64. Syrinx (part of)(possibly)
65. Teelin head
66. U 86 (formerly)
67. U 86 (possibly)
68. Uss osprey
69. Vesuvio (possibly)
70. Vigda
71. War helmet
72. Zaanstroom

 

Name: HMS KINGSTON JACINTH (POSSIBLY)

Length 46.3 meter, width: 7.3 meter, draught: 4, tonnage 356 ton

Cause: built in 1929 by cook, wellington & gemmel ltd, bevereley. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 96nhp, single shaft. requisitioned 8.1939 as an armed boarding vessel. detonated a german magnetic mine. (ww2sl & sibi).

Year of registration: 1943

Water depth above wreck: 39 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1943, last detected: 20180112

Details measurements/cartography: H067/43 12.1.43 SUNK FOUR CABLES SOUTH OF EAS BUOY. (C-IN-C PORTSMOUTH). - FNM 5058/42. 7.8.53 CHARTED AS NDW PA IN 503342N, 003730W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NC F6841. 23.7.71 NOW CHARTED AS USC PA 18MTRS. (TONNAGE KNOWN). NC 1652. H4121/76 13.1.77 WRECK LOCATED 19.8.76 IN 503313N, 003712W [OGB] HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 38.1MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 39.5MTRS. SEABED REGULAR SEDIMENTARY WITH SAND RIPPLES. POSSIBLE SMALL WRECK. DCS3 HEIGHT 3.41 AND 2.32MTRS, LENGTH 25MTRS. ORIENTATION ESE/WNW. SONAR SHOWS HULL, WITH RAISED SECTIONS FORE AND AFT. (HMS FOX, HI 52/76). CHART AS WK 36MTRS IN REVISED POSN. NC 2450. HH090/952/01 28.10.03 NOT LOCATED. (GARDLINE, HI 952). AMEND TO FOUL. BR STD. SEP 2018/000198963 09.08.18 EXAM'D 12.01.18; IN 5033.260N, 0037.295W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 39MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 39MTRS, LENGTH 19.3MTRS, WIDTH 6.6MTRS, HEIGHT 0.5MTRS, ORIENTATION 090/270 DEGS. NO DISCERNIBLE FEATURES CAN BE OBSERVED. HOWEVER IT IS IN AN AREA OF SAND WAVES, SO COULD BE WELL BURIED. SINCE THIS WAS AN ENLISTED TRAWLER, IT IS LIKELY THAT THIS WAS A WOODEN VESSEL AND HAS DECAYED TO LEAVE ONLY LOW-LYING DEBRIS. (MMT, HI 1498). AMEND FOUL 39MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 50 33.26 N,0 37.295 W

 

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