Wreck: Hms warspite (part of) (Battleship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms warspite (part of), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 7.152 N,5 28.819 W (50.119200, -5.480317)
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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 WARSPITE (PART OF)
Length 195.1 meter, width: 31.7 meter, draught: 9.4, tonnage 30600 ton
Cause: built in 1913 by devonport dockyard. twenty four boilers, steam turbines of 75000 hp, quarduple shafts. broke away from tug while being towed portsmouth for the clyde for breaking. grounded and was later beached. scrapped in situ over a period of five years.
Year of registration: 2002
Water depth above wreck: 4 meter, Height above seabed: 172 cm
Known since: 2002, last detected: 2022
Details measurements/cartography: HH100/351/18 28.2.02 REMAINS OF HMS WARSPITE, SMALL PART REMAINS IN 5007.160N, 0528.792W [WGD]. STANDS 1.5MTRS ON SAND SEABED. A REEF LIES INSIDE THE WRECKAGE, LEADING TOWARDS ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT HARBOUR WALL. (J ROSEVEARE, E-MAIL DTD 24.2.02) CHART AS F. BR STD. HH232/410/03 5.3.02 CONFIRMED THAT WRECKAGE REPORTED ABOVE IS BOILERS, STANDING 2MTRS HIGH, OF HMS WARSPITE, (VESSEL HAD 24 BOILERS). [SEE ALSO 16317]. (J ROSEVEARE/G FURSE TELECON 2.3.02). INS AS OBSTN (NO DEPTH SPECIFIED).
- NM 1440/02. HI1770 29.06.23 EXAM'D 31.08.22 IN 5007.152N, 0528.819W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 3.29MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 4.5MTRS. LENGTH 5.50MTRS, WIDTH 5.15MTRS, HT 1.26MTRS, ORIENTATION 172/352 DEGS. WRECK IS PARTIALLY BURIED AND DISMANTLED, NO SCOUR BUT DEBRIS FIELD PRESENT. (A-2-SEA SOLUTIONS LTD, HI 1770). AMEND DW 3.29MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: UK NM 3677/23. REMAINS OF SOME OF VESSEL'S 24 BOILERS, WRECK IS PARTIALLY BURIED AND DISMANTLED, NO SCOUR BUT DEBRIS FIELD PRESENT
Position: 50 7.152 N,5 28.819 W
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