This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms roedean, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 48.572 N,3 9.831 W (58.809533, -3.163850)

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 ROEDEAN

Length 85.3 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1094 ton

Cause: 2.10.1914 ex-roebuck ii. built in 1897 by the naval construction and armament company, barrow-in-furness for the great western railway company. requistioned on 2.10.1914 as a minesweeper. two boilers, two triple expansion engines, twin shaft. mined. reduced by explosives in 1953 & 1956. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1915

Water depth above wreck: 12 meter

Known since: 1915, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: H393/15 21.1.15 POSN 303DEGS, 6.3C FROM HACKNESS MARTELLS TOWER, BOTH MASTS SHOWING & FIXED WHITE LT EXHIBITED FROM FOREMAST, MARKED BY LT BUOY. FL.G.6S 305DEGS, 6.25C FROM TOWER. H3087/15 INS OBSOLETE WK SYMBOL IN 584836N, 030948W. - FNM 27/15. H66/16 5.1.16 WK HAS NOW DEPTH OF 3.5FMS OVER. SUNK AT LONGHOPE. (WW1SL). H3337/19 23.4.19 LEAST DEPTH OVER WK 3.5FMS. (REAR ADMIRAL COMMANDING ORKNEYS & SHETLAND). AMEND TO WK 3.5FMS & INS LT BUOY.

- NM 1376/19. H1965/20 15.3.20 WK NOW MARKED BY G CONL BUOY. (NORTHERN LT HO BOARD).

- NM 575/20. H6909/23 9.10.23 NOW MARKED BY G CAN BUOY. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H1281/41 10.4.41 LEAST DEPTH OVER WK NOW 2.5FMS, MARKED BY G CAN BUOY. (HM SHIP).

- NM 810/41 & FNM 812/41. H1281/41 24.9.57 TWO BOAT SWEEP. MAIN PART OF AREA CLEARED AT 5FMS, FOUL AT 5FMS 1FT. LEAST DEPTH BY E/S 5FMS 1FT. (HMS DALRYMPLE, 11.7.57).

- NM 2228/57. H7591/53 14.4.58 BUOY REMOVED. (NORTHERN LT HO BOARD NM 5/58).

- NM 704/58. 8.12.77 AMEND TO SW 8.8MTRS. NC 35. H1310/82 1.11.82 ALTHOUGH BROKEN IN PLACES, PARTS ARE RECOGNISABLE - IN PARTICULAR THE STBD SIDE, BOILERS, AND TIMBER DECKING. A THICK COVERING OF SILT QUICKLY OBSCURES U/WATER VISION. (B. WINFIELD, 25.10.82). NCA. 5.10.10 EXAM'D IN 5848.572N, 0309.831W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 8.62MTRS. (FATHOMS LTD, POST SDC BATHY REPROCESSING). AMEND WK 8.6MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 48.572 N,3 9.831 W

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