This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms vortigern, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 5.759 N,1 22.073 E (53.050666666667, 1.1718666666667)

 

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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.

 

1. Actuosity (possibly)
2. Algarve
3. Alice taylor
4. Alster
5. Alston
6. Ambrose fleming
7. Antiope
8. Aquarius (possibly)
9. Artemisia
10. Asteria
11. Ayrshire (possibly)
12. Baron ailsa
13. Bertha
14. Birtley
15. Blackburn
16. Boulderpool (fwd part)
17. British triumph
18. Burgos
19. Camilla weston
20. Cantabria (probably)
21. Chelsea (possibly)
22. Chevychase
23. Clan morrison
24. Clansman (possibly)
25. Continental (possibly)
26. Corchester
27. Corduff
28. Corea
29. Courier (probably)
30. Czestochowa
31. Duncarron
32. Efos
33. Eikhaug
34. Empress
35. Ems
36. Ethel
37. Fireglow
38. Francois trixier
39. Friesland
40. Fulgens
41. Gardenia
42. George royle
43. Georgia (stern section)
44. Giorgio ohlsen
45. Granta
46. Hauxley (possibly)
47. Heathfield
48. Hms arley
49. Hms cap d'antifer
50. Hms caroline moller
51. Hms cloughton wyke
52. Hms dungeness
53. Hms francolin
54. Hms kylemore
55. Hms nogi
56. Hms solomon
57. Hms vortigern
58. Hms william stephen
59. Hmsm c 11
60. Hmsm umpire
61. Homefire
62. Hull trader
63. I t l anna b
64. Ilse
65. Jessie maersk
66. Jevington court
67. Kenton
68. Keymun
69. King egbert
70. Lanterna (probably)
71. Londoner (probably)
72. Marden
73. Minorca
74. Nimrod (probably)
75. Norman queen
76. Ole bull
77. Ottar jarl
78. Otter
79. P.l.m. 25
80. Pacific
81. Pacific (possibly)
82. Pacific (possibly)
83. Pegrix
84. Pontfield (forepart)
85. Rimac
86. Robert w pomeroy
87. Rosalie (possibly)
88. Rose marie
89. Salvus ii
90. Seaham
91. Sheaf water
92. Sitona
93. St mark
94. St thomas (possibly)
95. Tayjack 1 (part of)
96. Tayjack 1 (part of)
97. Tayjack 1 (part of)
98. Teddington
99. Thursonian
100. Trajan
101. Traviata (possibly)
102. Trelissick
103. Tyneford
104. Upminster
105. Varoy
106. Welholme (possibly)
107. Western mist (possibly)
108. Westland
109. Whintown (possibly)
110. Winhill or whinhill
111. Zephyr

 

Name: HMS VORTIGERN

Length 95.1 meter, width: 8.8 meter, draught: 3, tonnage 1090 ton

Cause: built in 1917 by j s white & co. white-forster boilers, turbine engines of 27000shp for 34 knots. four x 4 inch guns, one 2pdr, 5 torpedo tubes. torpedoed by e-boat. 147 men lost.

Year of registration: 1942

Water depth above wreck: 23 meter, Height above seabed: 41 cm

Known since: 1942, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H01105/42 17.3.42 SUNK 530536N, 012212E, APPROX. DANGEROUS TO SHIPPING. MARKED BY DAN BUOY. (FOIC, YARMOUTH, 16.3.42). INS AS DW. - PFNM 688/42. H01105/42 17.9.42 LOCATED IN 530545N, 012215E. OROPESA SWEEP CLEAR AT 34FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 50FT [MLWS]. LIES IN TWO PORTIONS IN GEN DEPTH 76FT. (FOIC, GT YARMOUTH, 5.9.42). AMEND TO WK 5FMS 4FT.

- NM 2029/42. H01105/42 22.7.49 DISPERSED. CONSIDERED CLEAR TO 45FT [MLWS]. (C IN C NORE, 20.7.49). H01105/42 13.9.49 OROPESA SWEEP AFTER DISPERSAL CLEAR AT 46FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 69 IN GEN DEPTH 75FT. POSN 530545N, 012215E. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 13.9.49). AMEND TO WK 7FMS 4FT.

- NM 1883/49. 8.3.72 AMEND TO WK 13.7MTRS [LAT]. NC 105. 30.11.77 AMEND TO SW 13.7MTRS. NE 106. 22.1.86 TRIPLE TORPEDO TUBE MOUNTING, COMPLETE WITH TORPEDOES, LOCATED BY DIVERS LYING SOME 400 YDS FROM THIS WK. (UNDER-MARINE LTD, 17.1.86). HH090/524/01 15.1.92 EXAM'D 28.7.91 IN 530543.7N, 012209.6E [OGB]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 19.4, FOUL AT 19.6MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 21.1 IN GEN DEPTH 22.7MTRS. SCOUR 0.4MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 0.5MTR, LENGTH 49MTRS, WIDTH 14MTRS. LIES 059/239 DEG. (LAND & MARINE, HI 531). BR STD. HH090/561/01 5.1.93 LOCATED 25.7.92 IN 530543.5N, 012209.8E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. LEAST E/S DEPTH OBTAINED 22.0 IN GEN DEPTH 22.3MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 0.5MTRS. DCS3 HT 2.0MTRS, LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. LIES 045/225DEG. (SEATEAM, HI 561). NCA. 9.4.17 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, DEFENCE NO 147/2017. COMING INTO FORCE 3.3.17. AMEND "HISTORIC". SEP 2018/000212985 4.9.18 EXAM'D 29.3.18 IN 5305.759N, 0122.073E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 21.05MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 23MTRS, LENGTH 79.5MTRS, WIDTH 24.8MTRS, HEIGHT 2MTRS, ORIENTATION 041/221 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 6.8MTRS, 0.2MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 126 DEGS. (GARDLINE, HI 1515). AMEND TO DW 21MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 5.759 N,1 22.073 E

 

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