This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms waveflower, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 5.392 N,1 52.46 E (52.150016666667, 1.8159666666667)

 

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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. Aduatiek (possibly)
2. Alastair
3. Ambient (probably)
4. Angelus
5. Annie
6. Batavier 5
7. Blackhill
8. British captain
9. British fortune (probably)
10. Brixton
11. Burtonia (possibly)
12. Bygdo (possibly)
13. Cairnside
14. Carica milica
15. Cedarwood (possibly)
16. Churston
17. Claudia (possibly)
18. Coalgas
19. Cormorant
20. Cormount (probably)
21. Coureur des mers
22. Cressdene (possibly)
23. Cresta
24. Dagmar (probably)
25. Denewood
26. Disa (possibly)
27. Dronning maud (possibly)
28. Dulwich
29. Dunwich bank wk
30. Dynamo
31. Edernian
32. El argentino
33. Erna boldt (probably)
34. Estrella (possibly)
35. Eva witte
36. F stobart (probably)
37. Farmatyr
38. Firth
39. Forth
40. Friargate (possibly)
41. Friargate (possibly)
42. Frumenton
43. Gannet (possibly)
44. Gasfire
45. Gena
46. Gerhard
47. Gipsy (possibly)
48. Golconda (possibly)
49. Grantleyhall (possibly)
50. Grenadier (probably)
51. Groenlo
52. Groeswen (probably)
53. H h petersen
54. Harlington (probably)
55. Harlyn (probably)
56. Harriet
57. Hebe
58. Hendon hall
59. Heworth
60. Hillglen
61. Hm mgb 76 (possibly)
62. Hms adonis (possibly)
63. Hms donna nook
64. Hms donside (possibly)
65. Hms duchess of hamilton
66. Hms eros (possibly)
67. Hms forward iii
68. Hms franc tireur
69. Hms harvest gleaner
70. Hms hastfen
71. Hms hirose (probably)
72. Hms holdene
73. Hms japan
74. Hms jessie nutten
75. Hms lord airedale
76. Hms monarch
77. Hms moravia (possibly)
78. Hms nadine
79. Hms new comet (possibly)
80. Hms orthos (probably)
81. Hms resono (possibly)
82. Hms river clyde (possibly)
83. Hms river clyde (possibly)
84. Hms sisters melville
85. Hms st seiriol
86. Hms tervani
87. Hms waveflower
88. Hms whooper
89. Hmsm e6
90. Hmtb 10
91. Hmtb no.11 (possibly)
92. Hnlms 227
93. Hornchurch
94. Ignis (possibly)
95. Ingi
96. Ionian (possibly)
97. J c dalble
98. Jamesina
99. Janny
100. Jim
101. Kenneth hawksfield
102. Khartoum (possibly)
103. Knarsdale
104. Kwasind
105. Lady salisbury
106. Lapwing
107. Lapwing (possibly)
108. Lincairn (possibly)
109. Lisette
110. Lodewijk van nassau (probably)
111. Lonhelen (possibly)
112. Lord bute
113. Magdapur
114. Mangara
115. Maria rosa
116. Marie leonhardt (probably)
117. Mascotte
118. Mendibil mendi (possibly)
119. Mexico
120. Michail ontchoukoff (possibly)
121. Moidart
122. Nereus
123. Newhaven (possibly)
124. Nico
125. Nicolaos piangos
126. Ocean pride
127. Old charlton
128. Ostprussen (possibly)
129. Palembang (probably)
130. Paullette
131. Peik
132. Pescado
133. Petshenga (possibly)
134. Phryne
135. Plawsworth (possibly)
136. Polgarth
137. Ravenscraig (possibly)
138. Ren
139. Rhenas (possibly)
140. Rhineland
141. Rochester city
142. Savona (probably)
143. Scimitar
144. Sea king
145. Simon bolivar
146. Southford
147. St patrick
148. Stad alkmaar
149. Storm
150. Sunniside (probably)
151. Taber park
152. Tergestea
153. Thornaby (possibly)
154. Thyra
155. Tidal (possibly)
156. Torchbearer
157. Uc 11 (possibly)
158. Uc 72 (possibly)
159. Vae victis
160. Victorious
161. Warrenpoint
162. White lady
163. Wychwood (possibly)
164. Wyetown
165. Yarmouth
166. Yewkyle (possibly)

 

Name: HMS WAVEFLOWER

Length 45.8 meter, width: 7.4 meter, draught: 4, tonnage 368 ton

Cause: built in 1929 by cochrane & sons, selby. owned at time of loss by the royal navy. single boiler, triple expansion engine of 96hp, single shaft. machinery by amos & smith ltd, hull. purchased as m/s in 1939. mined.

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 33 meter, Height above seabed: 144 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 20190701

Details measurements/cartography: H01024/40 21.12.40 NDWPA IN 520530N, 015200E. (FOIC HARWICH, 20.11.40).

- NM 41/41. H4167/59 1.6.60 NOW CHARTED AS DWPA. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H01024/40 4.10.61 EXAM'D 14.8.61 IN 520522N, 015222E. OROPESA SWEEP CLEAR AT 66FT. LEAST E/S 84FT IN GEN DEPTH 110FT. NO SCOUR. EVEN SEABED. (HMS SCOTT, 10.8.61). AMEND TO NDW IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 237/62. H01024/40 27.9.62 AMEND TO SW 11FMS. H01024/40 16.12.68 AMEND TO 14FMS. (HMS SCOTT). BR STD. H4139/76 5.1.77 EXAM'D 1.10.76 IN 520522.2N, 015232.4E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 24.2MTRS, FOUL AT 4.7MTRS. LEAST E/S 24.8 IN GEN DEPTH 31MTRS. SMALL WK. LENGTH APPROX 46MTRS. LYING NW/SE. NO SCOUR. NO SIGN OF BREAKUP. (HMS BULLDOG & HMS BEAGLE, HI 31/76). BR STD. HH090/616/01 6.1.95 EXAM'D 11.8.95 IN 520521.73N, 015236.06E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [3 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 23.5, FOUL 23.8MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 24.0 IN GEN DEPTH 31MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 2.0MTRS. DCS3 HT 7MTRS. LENGTH 38MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS. LIES 150/330 DEGS. INTACT AND PROBABLY UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 616). BR STD. HH100/351/12 18.2.97 WK IS A TRAWLER. UPRIGHT ON THE SEABED WITH MAJOR DAMAGE TO ITS STERN. BRIDGE AND SUPERSTRUCTURE IS INTACT AND SHOWS NO SIGN OF COLLAPSING. STANDS SOME 6MTRS CLEAR OF THE SEABED. (B HICKINBOTTOM). MCA. 23.4.16 EXAM'D BY BDC; WK IN 5205.394N, 0152.457E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 25.26MTRS, IN GEN DEPTH 31MTRS. LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS, ORIENTATION 140. NFS. (DS26 ORFORD INSHORE MCZ, CEFAS SURVEY 2012). MOVE TO REVISED POSN BUT RETAIN PREVIOUS DEPTH SW 23.5MTRS. SEP 2016/000091759 24.8.17 EXAM'D BY BDC; IN 5205.392N, 0152.459E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 25.55MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 34MTRS, LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS, HEIGHT 7.2MTRS, ORIENTATION 145 DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 184MTRS, TOWARDS 020 DEGS. NFS. (GARDLINE, HI 1495). RETAIN DW 23.5MTRS. SEP 2019/000272653 20.11.19 EXAM'D 01.07.19; IN 5205.392N, 0152.460E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 24.6MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 33MTRS, LENGTH 48.61MTRS, WIDTH 9.32MTRS, HEIGHT 9.38MTRS, ORIENTATION 144/324 DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 120MTRS, WIDTH 34.51MTRS, 35.89MTRS DEEP, TOWARDS 014 DEGS. WRECK SITS UPRIGHT AND INTACT. (CLINTON MARINE, HI 1584). AMEND DW 24.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT & UPRIGHT, DAMAGED STERN

Position: 52 5.392 N,1 52.46 E

 

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