This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms snaefell (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 53.873 N,1 8.215 W (54.897883, -1.136917)

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 SNAEFELL (PROBABLY)

Length 68.7 meter, draught: 8.1, tonnage 466 ton

Cause: 6.5.1915 ex-barry, ex-barryfield, ex-waverley. built in 1907 by j brown & co, glasgow for the barry railway co, cardiff. one boiler, diagonal triple expansion engines, two paddles. sold in 1911 to p & a campbell ltd as a passenger/cargo vessel. requistioned from 6.5.1915 to 11.1919 for use as a transport for german prisoners of war.. renamed barryfield with the same owner in 1917. renamed again as waverley in 1925. hired for service as a minesweeper from 10.1939. bombed and sunk by german aircraft with loss of 3 lives. armed with one 12 pounder gun. (ww2sl, r young & diver magazine oct '10).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 50 meter, Height above seabed: 55 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2010

Details measurements/cartography: H02481/41 15.9.41 BOMBED AND SUNK 145DEG, 1.5M FROM 20Q BUOY. (CINC ROSYTH, 7.7.41). INS AS NDW PA IN 545400N, 010800W.

- NM 2097/41. H2433/71 21.4.71 POSSIBLE WK IN 545418N, 010815W. NEEDS FURTHER INVESTIGATION. (ISS, ROS DTD 31.12.70). 18.5.73 AMEND TO WK USC PA 35MTRS. NC 152. H6330/87 11.11.88 EXAMINED 29.5.88 IN 545352N, 010807W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [7 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 47.6 IN GEN DEPTH 50.4MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 50.7MTRS. DCS3 HT 2.8MTRS, LENGTH 22MTRS, BEAM 5MTRS. LIES 055/235DEG AND GIVES STRONG SONAR RETURN. MAY BE PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE, HI 414A). AMEND TO WK 47MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 2.7.09 EUT POSN: 5453.873N, 0108.215W. NE 152. 22.9.10 PADDLE STEAMER DIVED AND IDENTIFIED, POSN NOT STATED. HELM, CHINA, COMPASS RECOVERED. WK SITTING UPRIGHT ON MUD SEABED. BRIDGE COLLAPSED TO PORT. BOW NOT FOUND HAVING BEEN BLOWN OFF BY AN EXPLOSION. SHELL CASING AMMUNITION, NAVIGATION LAMPS AND A WINDOW FOUND. MAKER'S NAME ALLEY & MACLELLAN, GLASGOW ON HELM & AND ADMIRALTY CREST ON CHINA, IDENTIFIED WRECK AS HMS SNAEFELL. (DIVER MAGAZINE OCT '10)
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: POSSIBLY PARTLY BURIED

Position: 54 53.873 N,1 8.215 W

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