This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms patia, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 31.42 N,1 26.098 W (55.295866666667, -1.17345)

 

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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. Acclivity
2. Albano
3. Alert (possibly)
4. Annie walker (probably)
5. Arbutus
6. Athelduke
7. Auckland castle
8. Aulton (possibly)
9. Baltanglia
10. Bangarth
11. Buka
12. Bullger
13. Chris christenson
14. Coquet mouth
15. Cor jesu (possibly)
16. Don (possibly)
17. Driebergen
18. Dutchman
19. Eglinton
20. Elziena
21. Elziena (possibly)
22. Emily reaich
23. Emma
24. Espire
25. Everene (possibly)
26. Fingal
27. Florence dombey (possibly)
28. George and mary (possibly)
29. Hazard (probably)
30. Heros (possibly)
31. Hesvik (possibly)
32. Hms ascot
33. Hms herring
34. Hms kopanes
35. Hms patia
36. Hmsm unity (probably)
37. Hooghammen
38. Hornchurch (probably)
39. Igor
40. Invergyle
41. Isbul & margarit
42. Jan van ryswyck
43. Lafonia
44. Lunesdale (possibly)
45. Maystone (possibly)
46. Merwede
47. Morlaix (probably)
48. Nidelven
49. Ocean venture
50. Olimpia/?olympia (possibly)
51. Peik (probably)
52. Pluto
53. Provider a
54. Queen wilhelmina
55. Ragnhild (possibly)
56. Recorder (possibly)
57. Regian
58. Rising sun
59. Skovdal (probably)
60. Snowdonia
61. Somali
62. Spey (possibly)
63. Sphynx
64. St andre
65. St fergus
66. Svava
67. Tadorne
68. The tetrarch (probably)
69. Thomas jackson (possibly)
70. Tioga
71. U 1274
72. Ub 115 (possibly)
73. Upcerne
74. Wearsider

 

Name: HMS PATIA

Length 121.9 meter, width: 15.5 meter, draught: 9.1, tonnage 5355 ton

Cause: built in 1922 by camel laird. three boilers, tripel expansion engine, single shaft. requisitioned for use as auxiliary fighter catapult ship. sunk during machine gun and bomb attack by german aircraft, which was itself shot down. the co, cdr d m b baker, 7 officer and 31 ratings were killed.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 57 meter, Height above seabed: 165 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 1999

Details measurements/cartography: H01152/41 19.5.41 SUNK IN VICINITY OF 20 G BUOY. (FOIC TYNE). POSN 553400N, 012700W APPROX. 7.6.72 INS AS NDWPA. LC 1192. 13.3.74 AMEND TO USCPA 28MTRS. BR STD. 3.8.77 AMEND TO USCPA 35MTRS. (RECORD REVIEWED). BR STD. HH100/351/15 17.9.99 LIES IN GEN DEPTH 63MTRS ON A HARD SAND SEABED. DECKS IN 57MTRS. UPRIGHT BACK TO NO 3 HOLD WHERE THE VESSEL WAS BROKEN BY THE DIRECT HIT. FROM THIS POINT TO THE STERN SHE IS TWISTED THROUGH 90 DEGS WITH THE DECKS NEARLY VERTICAL. HURRICANE LAUNCHING TRACK REMAINS ON BOW. BRIDGE STILL RECOGNISABLE BUT ROOF PARTIALLY COLLAPSED. AA GUNS STILL ON BRIDGE WINGS WITH EMPTY SHELL CASES AROUND THE BASES. FUNNEL AND VENTILATORS HAVE GONE LEAVING ONLY HOLES. NETS ON WK. (R YOUNG, 17.9.99). HH090/843/01 28.12.99 EXAM'D 1.7.99 IN 5531.420N, 0126.098W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 43.1 IN GEN DEPTH 57MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 134MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS. DCS3 HT 13.1MTRS. LIES 165/345 DEGS WITH BOWS 345 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. SEABED SAND. REASONABLY INTACT, UPRIGHT BUT STERN BROKEN OFF AND BADLY DAMAGED. UPPER DECK FITTINGS VISIBLE. LOCAL DIVERS SUGGEST THAT THIS IS HMS PATIA. (GARDLINE, HI 843). AMEND TO WK 43MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 7.4.17 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, DEFENCE NO 147/2017. COMING INTO FORCE 3.3.17. AMEND "HISTORIC".
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, STERN BROKEN OFF, BOWS NW

Position: 55 31.42 N,1 26.098 W

 

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