This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms wessex, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 0.896 N,1 45.828 E (51.0898333, 1.7715833)

 

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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. Acer
2. Acer
3. Admiral gardner
4. Advent
5. Agen
6. Alhama
7. Andaman
8. Ashley
9. Belford
10. Blanc nez
11. Bravore
12. British liberty (possibly)
13. Ca 4
14. Cachalot
15. Camisard
16. Cap de la hague
17. Carmen
18. Colbert
19. Colbert (possibly)
20. Costas michalos (fwd part)
21. D'artagnan
22. Dartmore
23. Dixie
24. Dotterel
25. Dyck ltv
26. E goodwin ltv
27. Eleonora
28. Elizabeth and unknown
29. Evolution
30. Flandres
31. Francesco ciampa
32. G 85 (possibly)
33. G-42 (possibly)
34. Gad 23
35. Genimar
36. Gladys
37. Gloire a sainte therese
38. Harmatris
39. Henry b plant
40. Hippocampe (?hypocampe)
41. Hm mgb 328 (possibly)
42. Hms cayton wyke (probably)
43. Hms flirt
44. Hms hermes
45. Hms lord grey
46. Hms northumberland (probably)
47. Hms restoration (possibly)
48. Hms stirling castle (probably)
49. Hms tranquil
50. Hms wessex
51. Hmsm b2
52. Hoegh aigrette
53. Hundvaag
54. Iltis (possibly)
55. Ines
56. Ira (possibly)
57. Jean pierre et phillipe
58. Jupiter tr 1 (possibly)
59. Kabinda
60. Koenigshaven
61. L'armandeche
62. La fleche
63. Le pelerin de la mer
64. Loic
65. Lord hamilton (possibly)
66. Lst 364 (probably)
67. Luray victory
68. M 3630 (possibly)
69. Mahratta
70. Mahratta ii
71. Malta (probably)
72. Marie-ange loic
73. Mariner moon
74. Mercator
75. Mersey
76. Moise
77. Moorside (probably)
78. Munificent
79. Nagro (possibly)
80. Nancy moran
81. Neerlandais
82. Netty (possibly)
83. Nicolaw
84. Niendorf (possibly)
85. Noroit
86. North eastern victory
87. Notre dame des trois epis
88. Ocean hound
89. Okeania
90. Ophelie
91. Pallieter
92. Pavon
93. Petit antoine
94. Phoenix
95. Portrieux
96. Quentovic
97. Rio parana
98. Rochester castle (possibly)
99. Rydal force
100. Rynanna
101. S goodwin ltv (lv 69)
102. Sabac
103. Saint antoine de padoue
104. Saint benoit labre
105. Saint michael veillez sur nous
106. Saint ronan (possibly)
107. Sambut
108. Santagata
109. Santagata (?part of)
110. Smarapaan
111. Sperrbrecher 171 (possibly)
112. Tbd 317
113. The queen
114. Toornvliet (probably)
115. Tusnastabb (possibly)
116. U 11 (possibly)
117. U 16 (possibly)
118. U 37
119. U 48
120. Ub 29 (possibly)
121. Uc 26
122. Uc 46
123. Uc 46 (possibly)
124. Uc 78 or uc 79
125. Virginie
126. Virgo sancta
127. Western farmer (bow section)
128. Xanthence

 

Name: HMS WESSEX

Length 95.1 meter, width: 9.1 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 1090 ton

Cause: 12.3.18 a w class destroyer. built in 1918 by hawthorn leslie [hebburn]. launched 12.3.18. bombed and sunk by german fighters off calais. three yarrow boilers, brown curtis single reduction turbines. four 4 inch guns, one 2 pdr aa gun. five machine guns. five 21 inch torpedo tubes. 6 lives lost.

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 28 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: H0492/40 24.5.40 BOW SHOWING ABOVE WATER 320DEGS, 3.5M FROM CALAIS HIGH LIGHT. (VA DOVER, 24.5.40). 28.2.77 SHOWN AS WK 20.5MTRS IN 510100N, 014533E ON FR 6651. NE 323. H3007/71 20.4.77 LEAST DEPTH OVER WK 20.9MTRS. (BREST NM 77.11.28).

- NM 1027/77. H3216/72 21.5.79 N CARD LT BUOY QKFL ESTABLISHED CLOSE NW OF WK. (BREST NM 79 16 31).

- NM 1322/79. 13.11.80 SHOWN AS WK 20.5MTRS ON FR 6651 [MAY 1979 EDN]. NE 2451. H1271/81 10.12.81 SHOWN AS WK 20.5MTRS IN 510057N, 014530E ON FR 6651 [2ND EDN 1981]. NE 323. 7.2.86 SHOWN AS WK 19.8MTRS IN 510056N, 014556E ON FR 6651 [1985 EDN]. NE 1352. 25.1.89 UNKNOWN WK, FIRST RECORDED IN 1945, IN 510056N, 014556E [EUR]. FIXED BY TRIDENT III, POSN ACCURACY 20MTRS, IN 1985. INVESTIGATED BY MAGNETOMETER, E/S & SONAR. LEAST E/S DEPTH 19.8MTRS. HEIGHT 9MTRS, LENGTH 200MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS NO.21611030). NCA. 25.1.89 'RCW' N CARD PILLAR LT BUOY VQ IN 510115N, 014524E [EUR]. (FRENCH NM 88 44 33). NE 1892. 25.1.89 FISHING TACKLE DAMAGED IN 510100N, 014554E USING DECCA. (MANIERE E, REPERTOIRE DES CROCHES ET EPAVES). NCA. HH100/351/11 25.1.96 IDENTIFIED AS HMS WESSEX. (R H VANALDERWEIRELDT). NCA. SEP 2006/000378555 13.10.06 SHOWN AS WK 22MTRS IN 5100.895N, 0145.829E [WGD] ON FRENCH 7258 [EDN 3 DTD 2006]. BR STD. SEP 2016/000076595 21.9.16 SHOWN AS WK 23MTRS IN 5100.896N, 0145.828E [WGD] ON FR474240 & FRENCH 7424. [ED 3, 2016]. AMEND TO DW 23MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UK NM 3912/20

Position: 51 0.896 N,1 45.828 E

 

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