This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms southsea, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 0.305 N,1 25.197 W (55.005083, -1.419950)

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 SOUTHSEA

Length 74.4 meter, width: 9.1 meter, draught: 3, tonnage 825 ton

Cause: 25.5.41 built in 1930 by fairfield & co, glasow. originally owned by the southern railway co and employed between portsmouth and the isle of wight. owned at time of loss by the admiralty. two boilers, compound engine of 213hp, paddle propulsion. hired as a minesweeper from 2.1940. struck a mine off s shields and sank between the piers. carried inshore on 25.5.41 and beached the following day. handed over to breakers and broken up on the spot.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 1 meter

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2001

Details measurements/cartography: H0423/41 BEACHED OFF SOUTH SHIELDS. (DODS). NCA, POSN 550036N, 012500W [OGB] FOR FILING ONLY. 11.12.99 ABOVE POSN PLOTS IN DREDGED ENTRANCE REACH INSIDE HARBOUR WALLS OF TYNE. MORE REALISTIC POSN 5500.200N, 0124.500W [OGB] FOR FILING ONLY. 10.7.01 REMAINS LIE ABOUT 200YDS N OF 'STAR OF DEVORAN' ON THE HERD SANDS. THE HIGHEST SECTIONS STAND ABOUT 0.7-1.0MTR HIGH. EIGHT PORTHOLES RECOVERED FROM A SECTION OF HULL PLATES THAT UNCOVERED AFTER A STORM LAST YEAR. (R YOUNG). NCA, POSN 5500.30N, 0125.1W [OGB].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 55 0.305 N,1 25.197 W

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