This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms minster, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 27.494 N,1 4.824 W (49.458233, -1.080400)

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 MINSTER

Length 67.5 meter, width: 10.3 meter, tonnage 707 ton

Cause: hired as a netlayer in 1940. mined. (ww2sl)

Year of registration: 1944

Water depth above wreck: 6 meter, Height above seabed: 135 cm

Known since: 1944, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: H02730/44 26.7.44 STRANDED WK IN 492730N, 010448W APPROX. (ADMIRALTY).

- NM 1614/44. H02730/44 13.2.56 NO LONGER SHOWS ABOVE WATER. (PARIS NM 55 42 14).

- NM 277/56. 29.3.61 CONFLICT ON POSN WITH FRENCH NAVAL AUTHORITIES IN MAISON ROYER. POSN OF LCI 232 QUOTED. QUESTION OF SALVAGE & OWNERSHIP. (CP 56929/60). 22.1.76 SHOWN AS DW ED ON FRENCH 6614D. BR STD. H4984/74 25.10.79 SHOWN AS DW ON FRENCH 847 [AUG '79 EDN]. BR STD. H1310/88 7.3.88 DEFINITELY IDENTIFIED AS WK OF HMS MINSTER. FIXED BY TORAN. (J COULON, 20.12.87). PLOTS IN 492800N, 010412W. NCA. 7.3.88 WK, DANGEROUS TO NAVIGATION, IN 492733N, 010445W. IN GEN DEPTH 7MTRS. (FR WK RECORDS NO.14591066). NCA. 10.5.90 DW PD SHOWN IN 492733N, 010445W ON FR 7056 [1986 EDN]. NC 2613. 17.5.07 LIES NE/SW WITH BOWS NE. HIGH POINT IS BOILERS, SOME 4MTRS HIGH. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 2007). NCA. 7.2.13 [WGD] POSN: 4927.492N, 0104.830W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 27.494 N,1 4.824 W

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