This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms skipjack, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 5.285 N,2 28.431 E (51.1325, 2.5103667)

 

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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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70. Zeester

 

Name: HMS SKIPJACK

Length 70.1 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 2.4, tonnage 818 ton

Cause: Built as a fleet minesweeper in 1934 by j crown & sons. 3-drum boilers, compound expansion engines of 1770 ihp for 16.5 knots. two 4 inch guns, 9 machine guns. bombed by german a/c and sunk during evacuation of bef from dunkirk. was carrying between 250 and 300 troops in addition to her crew and most were lost. (dods).

Year of registration: 1945

Water depth above wreck: 5 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1945, last detected: 2017

Details measurements/cartography: H603/45 28.3.45 WK, DANGEROUS TO NAVIGATION, IN 510520N, 022830E. (PARIS NM 44 92 46).

- NM 818/45. H7304/53 4.12.53 LEAST DEPTH NOW 5MTRS. (PARIS NM 53 43 23). - FNM 129/53 & NM 2830/53. H733/58 6.9.60 SHOWN AS WK 4.7MTRS ON FR 5513. NE 323. 21.10.81 SHOWN AS WK 6.5MTRS IN 510520N, 022831E [EUR] ON FR 6500 [4TH EDN, 1981]. BR STD. 14.2.85 NAMED 'RUYTINGEN' IN FR WK RECORD NO.21612056. H1310/85/8 14.2.85 DIVED ON IN 1984. LIES ALMOST N/S ON PORT SIDE AND BOWS N. 2 PROPELLER SHIP, ALMOST 80MTRS LONG. VOICE-PIPE MARKED 'W/T ROOM' WAS FOUND WHICH INDICATES THAT SHE IS PROBABLY BRITISH AND LOST IN DUNKIRK EVACUATION. (J. COULON, 25.1.84). BUT SEE 510521N, 022819E - WHICH COULD BE WK BEING DESCRIBED. 16.8.85 EXAM'D IN 510520N, 022831E [EUR]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 6.5 IN GEN DEPTH 16MTRS. LENGTH 60MTRS. LYING WNW/ESE. BROKEN IN MANY PARTS. DESCRIBED AS RUYTINGEN LTV. (ANNALES HYDROGRAPHIQUES, 1983). H1310/86/24 3.10.86 DIVED ON TWICE IN 1985 & 86. LIES ALMOST UPSIDE DOWN. SMALL BELL, MARKED 'W/T ROOM SILENCE', FOUND. ALSO SHIPS SIREN. POSSIBLY HMS SKIPJACK. (J COULON, 15.9.86). H1310/88/18 25.7.88 DEFINITELY WK OF HMS SKIPJACK. (J COULON, 15.3.88). 17.10.96 SHOWN AS WK 6.8MTRS [MLS] ON BELGIUM 102 REPROMAT [MAY '96]. NC 1873 [MLS] NOW LARGEST SCALE. 14.11.11 SHOWN AS WK 6.5MTRS [LAT] IN 5105.285N, 0228.431E [WGD] ON BA 1873 [EDN 4 DTD 19.5.11].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: LIES ON PORT SIDE

Position: 51 5.285 N,2 28.431 E

 

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