Wreck: Hms pylades (Minesweeper)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms pylades, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 25.602 N,0 15.063 W (49.4267, -0.25105)
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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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Shipwreck details
Name: HMS PYLADES
Length 67.1 meter, width: 9.8 meter, tonnage 890 ton
Cause: Sunk off coast of normandy by human torpedo. 11 lives lost. (dods).
Year of registration: 1944
Water depth above wreck: 24 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm
Known since: 1944, last detected: 2021
Details measurements/cartography: H2758/44 5.8.44 NDW IN 492548N, 001500W. (FR NM 35/020/50).
- NM 1684/44. H7795/51 12.3.51 DELETE. (PARIS NM 40 028 50).
- NM 507/51. H03041/44 17.12.53 LOCATED IN 492535N, 001512W ON 19.7.44 BY HDML 1001. LEAST RECORDED DEPTH 33FT. (NOIC ARROMANCHES, 768/41, 27.7.44). NCA H716/60 11.7.61 WK 17MTRS [9FMS 2FT] IN 492548N, 001500W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NC 2613. 1.10.74 NOW CHARTED IN 492535N, 001457W ON NC 2146. H3219/73 9.2.79 WK 16.5MTRS IN 492539N, 001507W. (FR NM 79 02 42). NE'S 1821, 2146, 2613 & NC 2656. 29.11.79 SHOWN AS WK 16.5MTRS IN 492541N, 001502W [EUR] ON FR 6603 [AUG 1979 EDN]. HH351/351/01 18.12.89 WK IN 492539.4N, 001459W [EUR]. POSN ACCURACY 20MTRS. EXAM'D BY E/S. LEAST DEPTH 16.5 IN GEN DEPTH 24MTRS. NAMED AS BRITISH MINESWEEPER HMS 'PYLADES'. BROKEN IN TWO, FORESECTION LYING UPRIGHT ON SEABED, CENTRE & AFT SECTION WITH LARGE HOLE IN HULL, MAST LYING ON SEABED. ORIENTATION NE/SW. HT 7.8MTRS ABOVE SEABED. (FR WK RECORDS 1987 NO.14590128). CHART AS WK 16.5MTRS IN 492539N, 001459W. NE 2146. 15.5.07 LIES IN 4925.657N, 0014.983W [EUR]. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 2007). AMEND POSN. BR STD. 27.12.12 [WGD] POSN: 4925.602N, 0015.063W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN IN TWO
Position: 49 25.602 N,0 15.063 W
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