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, 2.5103667)

 

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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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23. Heinkel 111
24. Hm motor launch 561
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28. Hms gracie fields
29. Hms grafton
30. Hms grafton
31. Hms keith
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36. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
37. Hms wakeful
38. Hms waverley
39. Hms whitley
40. John mahn
41. Keulse vaart iv
42. Kilmore
43. Laura
44. Lct(r) 457
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46. Lst 420 (stern section)
47. M 3610
48. Marie
49. Mariner (possibly)
50. Maurice
51. Mont louis
52. Nashaba
53. Nautica ena
54. Neutron
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56. P 319
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59. Quo vadis
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64. S 168
65. Sabrina
66. Sampa
67. Senator holthusen
68. Sigurds faulbaums
69. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
70. Sterre der zee
71. Torpilleur branlebas
72. Tringa
73. U 11
74. Ub 13
75. Ub 29
76. Ub29
77. Uc 1
78. Vlaanderen (probably)
79. West-hinder
80. Wielingen ii (possibly)
81. Wielingen ltv
82. Wolf
83. 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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