This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms pincher, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 3.258 N,6 3.661 W (49.983366666667, -6.30175)

 

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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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8. Bill (possibly)
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29. Hms decoy (probably)
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55. Serica (possibly)
56. Setiembre (part of)
57. Sirius (possibly)
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Name: HMS PINCHER

Length 83.6 meter, width: 8.5 meter, draught: 3.1, tonnage 905 ton

Cause: built in 1910 by denny. six boilers, s turbines, twin shaft. armed with 1 x 4 inch, 3 x 12 pdr, 1 x 2 inch aa, 2 x 21 inch torpedo tubes. one of the basilisk class of the 1908-9 building programme, of which 27 ships were completed. wrecked on the seven stones in fog whist at full speed.

Year of registration: 1977

Water depth above wreck: 70 meter, Height above seabed: 131 cm

Known since: 1977, last detected: 2013

Details measurements/cartography: 29.7.18 29.7.18 POSN 500230N, 060730W, ON SEVEN STONES. (FALMOUTH AP REPORT M012717). H2613/78 10.3.78 H2613/78 10.3.78 LOCATED 9.6.77 IN 500315N, 060337W [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 66.8MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 72MTRS. DCS3 HT 7MTRS. LYING 120/300DEGS. REASONABLY INTACT & UPRIGHT WITH BOX-LIKE SUPERSTRUCTURE. LENGTH 80MTRS. (HMS FOX HI 42A/77). INS AS WK 65MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/17 3.9.01 HH100/351/17 3.9.01 THIS HMS PINCHER. FIVE BOILERS LOCATED AND TWO STEAM TURBINES. (G POUND). NCA. 10.2.14 10.2.14 EXAM'D 4.12.13 IN 5003.258N, 0603.661W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 61.48 IN GEN DEPTH 70MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 82MTRS, WIDTH 14MTRS, HT 8.52MTRS. LIES 131/311 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. MAINLY BROKEN UP, FIVE ?BOILERS LIE IN LINE IN THE CENTRE OF THE WK. SHOAL POINT IS AT THE TOP OF A CURVED STRUCTURE WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN PART OF THE KEEL. (MMT, HI 1415). AMEND WK 61MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: MAINLY BROKEN UP, ?5 BOILERS LIE IN LINE IN HULL

Position: 50 3.258 N,6 3.661 W

 

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