This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms myrtle, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 35.35 N,21 46.16 E (58.475083333333, 21.673466666667)

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 Myrtle

Length 81.7 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 1250 ton

Cause: built 1915 by lobnitz & co. with triple expansion engines of 2400 ihp, & two 4.7in guns & two 3pdr. mined and broke in two. was operating against the russian bolshevik forces in company of hms gentian [see 33846] at the time. vessel carried a crew of 93. (dods).

Year of registration: 1919

Water depth above wreck: 33 meter

Known since: 1919, last detected: 2023

Details measurements/cartography: BROKEN IN TWO. ONE SECTION SANK IN 583700N, 214700E APPROX. THE OTHER IN 583400N, 213600E (]33844] QV). (RECORD OFFICE, X.6689/19). HH304/351/01 19.11.90 WK 29MTRS, IN 583555N, 214640E. (USSR NM 7581/90). HA141/04/13/90 30.11.90 WK, THOUGHT POSSIBLY THAT OF A BRITISH MINESWEEPER, LOCATED JUNE 1990 BY ONE OF SOVIET SOCIETY 'PAMYAT BALTIKI' DIVING CLUBS IN 583548N, 214630E, APPROX. WALKERS 'CHERUB' MECHANICAL LOG AND A MAGNETIC COMPASS MADE BY DOBBIE MCINNES LTD, GLASGOW WERE RECOVERED. (A L WHITE, 27.11.90). BR STD. 21.10.96 SHOWN IN 583554N, 214648E ON ESTONIAN 511. NE 2222. 6.4.06 WK 29MTRS IN 5835.920N, 2146.500E [WGD]. (ESTONIAN NM 11/71/2002). NE 2222. SEP 2012/000068860 11.4.12 NOW WK 28.9MTRS IN 5835.35N, 2146.16E [WGD]. (ESTONIAN NM 4/54 & 55/12). BR STD. SEP 2013/000049870 6.3.13 NOW HISTORIC WK. (ESTONIAN NM 3/52/13).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Rest'D zone 300m NO anchoring/fishing/trawling: see also 33844

Position: 58 35.35 N,21 46.16 E

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