Wreck: Hms torrent (Yacht)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms torrent, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 5.727 N,4 58.563 W (50.095450, -4.976050)
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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 TORRENT
Length 24.4 meter, width: 7.3 meter, tonnage 336 ton
Cause: built 1930 as anna-marie by thornycroft. requisitioned by admiralty as auxillary patrol vessel. mined. (ww2 sl).
Year of registration: 1941
Water depth above wreck: 57 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm
Known since: 1941, last detected: 2001
Details measurements/cartography: H0423/41 5.4.60 POSN 500510N, 045725W. (FOIC FALMOUTH, 6.4.41). 5.5.60 SONAR CONTACT IN 500618N, 045554W, APPROX. (AUBD 301/93). H4239/73 15.8.74 NOT FOUND USING E/S & DCS3. (HMS HECATE, HI 4/74). - FNM & BR STD. H4239/73 25.11.87 WK LOCATED IN 500541.5N, 045830W [OGB] USING HSA. LEAST E/S DEPTH 52.5MTRS. (THV STELLA, REPORT DTD 15.11.87). CHART AS WK 52MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/12 14.4.00 DIVED IN 1984. TWIN ENGINES. TWIN LEVER, SMALL CHADBURN TELEGRAPH LOCATED. (G J POUND). NCA. 5.11.01 DIVED IN CHARTED POSN, LIES E/W, BOWS W. POSITIVE ID, BUILDERS PLATE FOUND. SHIP NO.1099, HMS 'TORRENT', BUILT AS 'ANNA-MARIE' BY THORNYCROFT IN 1930. TWIN GARDINER ENGINES. (G J POUND/G FURSE TELECON 5.11.01). NCA. 5.11.01 HMS 'TORRENT' DIVED IN 5005.698N, 0458.480W. STANDS 6MTRS ABOVE SEABED IN GEN DEPTH 60MTRS. LYING ON STARBOARD SIDE, ORIENTATED N/S, BOWS N. HEAVILY COVERED WITH MUD AND A FEW NETS. (J ROSEVEARE/D METCALFE TELECON 5.11.01). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: ON STBD SIDE, BOWS N, HEAVILY COVERED WITH MUD & NETS
Position: 50 5.727 N,4 58.563 W
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