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 (52.1500167, 1.8159667)

 

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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. Batavier 5
6. British captain
7. British fortune (probably)
8. Brixton
9. Burtonia (possibly)
10. Bygdo (possibly)
11. Cairnside
12. Carica milica
13. Cedarwood (possibly)
14. Churston
15. Claudia (possibly)
16. Coalgas
17. Cormorant
18. Cormount (probably)
19. Coureur des mers
20. Cressdene (possibly)
21. Cresta
22. Dagmar (probably)
23. Denewood
24. Disa (possibly)
25. Dronning maud (possibly)
26. Dulwich
27. Dunwich bank wk
28. Dynamo
29. Edernian
30. El argentino
31. Erna boldt (probably)
32. Estrella (possibly)
33. Eva witte
34. F stobart (probably)
35. Farmatyr
36. Firth
37. Forth
38. Friargate (possibly)
39. Friargate (possibly)
40. Frumenton
41. Gannet (possibly)
42. Gasfire
43. Gena
44. Gerhard
45. Gipsy (possibly)
46. Golconda (possibly)
47. Grantleyhall (possibly)
48. Grenadier (probably)
49. Groenlo
50. Groeswen (probably)
51. H h petersen
52. Harlington (probably)
53. Harlyn (probably)
54. Harriet
55. Hebe
56. Hendon hall
57. Hillglen
58. Hm mgb 76 (possibly)
59. Hms adonis (possibly)
60. Hms donna nook
61. Hms donside (possibly)
62. Hms duchess of hamilton
63. Hms eros (possibly)
64. Hms forward iii
65. Hms franc tireur
66. Hms hastfen
67. Hms hirose (probably)
68. Hms holdene
69. Hms japan
70. Hms jessie nutten
71. Hms lord airedale
72. Hms monarch
73. Hms moravia (possibly)
74. Hms nadine
75. Hms new comet (possibly)
76. Hms orthos (probably)
77. Hms resono (possibly)
78. Hms river clyde (possibly)
79. Hms river clyde (possibly)
80. Hms sisters melville
81. Hms tervani
82. Hms waveflower
83. Hms whooper
84. Hmsm e6
85. Hmtb 10
86. Hnlms 227
87. Hornchurch
88. Ignis (possibly)
89. Ingi
90. Ionian (possibly)
91. J c dalble
92. Jamesina
93. Janny
94. Jim
95. Kenneth hawksfield
96. Khartoum (possibly)
97. Knarsdale
98. Kwasind
99. Lady salisbury
100. Lapwing
101. Lincairn (possibly)
102. Lisette
103. Lodewijk van nassau (probably)
104. Lonhelen (possibly)
105. Lord bute
106. Magdapur
107. Mangara
108. Maria rosa
109. Marie leonhardt (probably)
110. Mascotte
111. Mendibil mendi (possibly)
112. Mexico
113. Michail ontchoukoff (possibly)
114. Moidart
115. Nereus
116. Newhaven (possibly)
117. Nico
118. Nicolaos piangos
119. Ocean pride
120. Old charlton
121. Ostprussen (possibly)
122. Palembang (probably)
123. Paullette
124. Peik
125. Pescado
126. Petshenga (possibly)
127. Phryne
128. Plawsworth (possibly)
129. Polgarth
130. Ravenscraig (possibly)
131. Ren
132. Rhenas (possibly)
133. Rhineland
134. Rochester city
135. Savona (probably)
136. Scimitar
137. Simon bolivar
138. Southford
139. St patrick
140. Stad alkmaar
141. Storm
142. Sunniside (probably)
143. Taber park
144. Tergestea
145. Thornaby (possibly)
146. Thyra
147. Tidal (possibly)
148. Torchbearer
149. Uc 11 (possibly)
150. Uc 72 (possibly)
151. Vae victis
152. Victorious
153. Warrenpoint
154. White lady
155. Wychwood (possibly)
156. Wyetown
157. Yarmouth
158. 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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