This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms wakeful, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 22.717 N,2 43.354 E (51.1325, 2.5103666666667)

 

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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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2. A-15 (possibly)
3. Aloha
4. Anton hammerbacher
5. Apache
6. Ardmount
7. Auretta
8. Birkenfels
9. Bourrasque
10. Bowsprite (bow section)
11. Bowsprite (bow section)
12. Bramden (possibly)
13. Breda
14. Clan macalister
15. Clan macneil (possibly)
16. Cmb 1
17. Cmb 71a
18. Croxteth hall
19. Dageraad
20. Dawdon
21. De wandilaar
22. Dortmund
23. Douaisien (possibly)
24. Emeraude
25. Empire path
26. Etendard
27. Fl5
28. G 96
29. Gold shell
30. Harpalyce
31. Heinkel 111
32. Hm motor launch 561
33. Hms basilisk
34. Hms brilliant
35. Hms colsay
36. Hms gracie fields
37. Hms grafton
38. Hms grafton
39. Hms hayburn wyke
40. Hms keith
41. Hms plumpton (probably)
42. Hms polly johnson
43. Hms sirius
44. Hms skipjack
45. Hms st abbs
46. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
47. Hms wakeful
48. Hms waverley
49. Hms whitley
50. Hoop op vrede (n 741)
51. John mahn
52. Kap arkona
53. Keulse vaart iv
54. Kilmore
55. Laura
56. Lct(r) 457
57. Lorina
58. Lst 420 (bow section)
59. Lst 420 (stern section)
60. Lucy jenny ii
61. M 3610
62. Marie
63. Marie
64. Mariner (possibly)
65. Maurice
66. Mont louis
67. Msc alyssa
68. Mts vector
69. Nashaba
70. Nautica ena
71. Neutron
72. Normandie
73. P 319
74. Putten
75. Queen of the channel (possibly)
76. Quo vadis
77. Ra.2 (possibly)
78. Rijnstroom
79. Rita
80. Robert l vann
81. Robert-clara
82. S 168
83. S 220
84. S.192 (possibly)
85. Sabrina
86. Saint therese de jesus
87. Sampa
88. Sea hunter
89. Senator holthusen
90. Senator sthamer
91. Sigurds faulbaums
92. Sperrbrecher 170 (probably)
93. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
94. Sterre der zee
95. Torpilleur branlebas
96. Tringa
97. U 11
98. Ub 13
99. Ub29
100. Uc 1
101. Vlaanderen (probably)
102. West-hinder
103. Wielingen ii (possibly)
104. Wielingen ltv
105. Wolf
106. Zeester

 

Name: HMS WAKEFUL

Length 95.1 meter, width: 9.1 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 1300 ton

Cause: a v/w class destoyer. torpedoed by german e-boat while evacuating british troops from dunkirk. broke in two and sank very quickly. great loss of life. (dod). sunk by german submarine s 30. about 100 of the 650 personnel onboard killed. (r verpoorte). not confirmed in axis submarine successes. 3.2.01 total complement was 675 of whom some 650 were lost. (the times, 3.2.01).

Year of registration: 1963

Water depth above wreck: 20 meter

Known since: 1963, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: H4029/63 1.11.63 WK 17.2MTRS IN 512242N, 024347E [EUR]. (NETH NM 3013/63).

- NM 2246/63. H4029/63 23.1.84 SWEPT CLEAR AT 17.5MTRS IN 512246N, 024326E. (BELGIAN NM 135/83). AMEND TO SW 17.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. HH100/351/02 9.4.90 WK IN 512247N, 024326E REFERRED TO AS HMS WAKEFUL. (D TERMOTE, 26.3.90). HH100/351/01 1.6.90 DEFINITELY THE WK OF V & W TYPE DESTROYER. IN TWO PARTS LYING AT RIGHT ANGLES TO EACH OTHER. FOR'D SECTION (APPARENTLY) IS ABOUT 33MTRS LONG AND LIES ON PORT SIDE AND STANDS SOME 3.5MTRS PROUD OF SEABED. MUCH DEBRIS WIDELY SCATTERED AROUND. IT IS ORIENTATED 360/180 DEG. AFTER PART IS ON EVEN KEEL, LYING 270/090 DEG, WELL SETTLED INTO SEABED WITH SAND UP TO TOP ROW OF PORTHOLES ON PORT SIDE AND A DEEP SCOUR ON STARBOARD SIDE. IT IS ABOUT 33MTRS LONG AND THE BREAK IS NEAR THE SEARCHLIGHT PLATFORM. 4.7" GUNS LIE ON TOP WITH 2 TRIPLE TORPEDO TUBES. SCATTERED REMAINS OF FUNNELS, BOILERS AND OTHER MACHINERY LIE BETWEEN THE TWO PARTS. (D TERMOTE, 19.4.90). HH100/351/07 18.10.93 POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS WK OF HMS WAKEFUL BY SHIP'S CREST ON LIFEBOAT. (M R H VANALDERWEIRELDT, 30.9.93). 7.2.01 WK TO BE LIFTED IN 2002 AND MOVED INTO DREDGED TRENCH TO GIVE GREATER WATER DEPTH. (ARTICLE IN THE TIMES, 3.2.01). HH100/351/19 8.11.02 HMS WAKEFUL NOT LIKELY TO BE MOVED UNTIL 2003, IF EVER. (BELGIAN COAST HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE). SEP 2010/000138707 14.10.10 SHOWN AS SW 17.4MTRS [LAT] IN 5122.717N, 0243.354E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 102 [NE 6.2010]. SEP 2014/000129403 2.7.14 NOW HISTORIC WK. (BELGIAN NM 13/203/14).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: IN TWO PARTS AT RIGHT ANGLES

Position: 51 22.717 N,2 43.354 E

 

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