This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms northumbria, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 12.243 N,2 34.649 W (56.3829, -2.4623833333333)

 

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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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20. Island magee
21. Maggie smith (possibly)
22. Mallard
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24. Nobelese
25. Ocean harvest
26. Phaeacian
27. Primrose
28. Protecor
29. Ptarmigan
30. River garry
31. Rolfsborg
32. Royal fusilier
33. Sabbia
34. Scotia
35. Sneland 1
36. Stella
37. Stjernvik
38. Storjen
39. Strathisla
40. U 74
41. Uc 41
42. Ugie (possibly)

 

Name: HMS NORTHUMBRIA

Length 35.2 meter, width: 6 meter, draught: 3, tonnage 211 ton

Cause: built in 19056 by cook, welton & gemmel ltd, beverley. hired from 1914 as an armed patrol sweeper. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 67nhp, single shaft. machinery by c d holmes & co, hull. mined. nine men lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 34 meter, Height above seabed: 190 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2012

Details measurements/cartography: H2501/19 24.3.19 SUNK IN 561700N, 023300W. (SNO GRANTON).

- NM 1074/19. 29.3.23 AMEND DW (1919) ON CHARTS. H2618/60 29.7.60 DELETE.

- NM 1411/60. H1310/86/31 26.11.86 HMS NORTHUMBRIA IDENTIFIED BY RECOVERED BELL, ON 13.9.86. APPROX POSN 561200N, 023600W. (W MURNEY, 27.10.86). NCA YET - PLOTS WITHIN OBSTNS AREA. H1310/87/28 28.7.87 PRECISE POSN 561226N, 023443W. HIGHEST POINT, THE BOILER, STANDS 4MTRS HIGH AND THE REMAINDER OF THE WRECKAGE IS NO MORE THAN 1MTR HIGH. (W MURNEY, 19.7.87). INS AS WK 30MTRS. BR STD. HH090/605/01 24.1.94 EXAM'D 17.8.93 IN 561214.6N, 023433.0W [OGB] USING MICROFIX [3 LOPS]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 32.8, FOUL AT 33.0MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 33.4 IN GEN DEPTH 35.1MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 3.0MTRS, LENGTH 40MTRS, BREADTH 6MTRS. LIES 090/270 DEG, BROKEN IN TWO. (OCEONICS (UK) LTD., HI 605). AMEND TO SW 32MTRS. BR STD. 26.4.16 EXAM'D BY BDC: WK IN 5612.243N, 0234.649W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 30.76MTRS, IN GEN DEPTH 34MTRS. LENGTH 30MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS, HT 4MTRS, ORIENTATION 190/280. NFS. (DS32 ISLE OF MAY, BGS SURVEY 2012). AMEND NDW 30.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: (NFS)

Position: 56 12.243 N,2 34.649 W

 

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