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 (53.0506667, 1.1718667)

 

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