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 (51.089833333333, 1.7715833333333)

 

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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. Brendonia
13. British liberty (possibly)
14. Ca 4
15. Cachalot
16. Camisard
17. Cap de la hague
18. Carmen
19. Colbert
20. Colbert (possibly)
21. Costas michalos (aft section)
22. Costas michalos (fwd part)
23. D'artagnan
24. Dartmore
25. Dixie
26. Dotterel
27. Dyck ltv
28. E goodwin ltv
29. Eleonora
30. Elizabeth and unknown
31. Evolution
32. Flandres
33. Francesco ciampa
34. G 85 (possibly)
35. G-42 (possibly)
36. Gad 23
37. Genimar
38. Gladys
39. Gloire a sainte therese
40. Harmatris
41. Henry b plant
42. Hippocampe (?hypocampe)
43. Hm mgb 328 (possibly)
44. Hms cayton wyke (probably)
45. Hms flirt
46. Hms hermes
47. Hms lord grey
48. Hms northumberland (probably)
49. Hms restoration (possibly)
50. Hms stirling castle (probably)
51. Hms tranquil
52. Hms wessex
53. Hmsm b2
54. Hoegh aigrette
55. Hundvaag
56. Iltis (possibly)
57. Ines
58. Ira (possibly)
59. Jean pierre et phillipe
60. Jupiter (probably)
61. Jupiter tr 1 (possibly)
62. Kabinda
63. Koenigshaven
64. L'armandeche
65. La fleche
66. Le pelerin de la mer
67. Loic
68. Lord hamilton (possibly)
69. Lst 364 (probably)
70. Luray victory
71. M 3630 (possibly)
72. Mahratta
73. Mahratta ii
74. Malta (probably)
75. Marie-ange loic
76. Mariner moon
77. Mercator
78. Mersey
79. Moise
80. Moorside (probably)
81. Munificent
82. Nagro (possibly)
83. Nancy moran
84. Neerlandais
85. Netty (possibly)
86. Nicolaw
87. Niendorf (possibly)
88. Noroit
89. North eastern victory
90. Notre dame des trois epis
91. Ocean hound
92. Okeania
93. Ophelie
94. Pallieter
95. Pavon
96. Petit antoine
97. Phoenix
98. Portrieux
99. Quentovic
100. Rio parana
101. Rochester castle (possibly)
102. Rooswijk
103. Rydal force
104. Rynanna
105. S goodwin ltv (lv 69)
106. Sabac
107. Saint antoine de padoue
108. Saint benoit labre
109. Saint michael veillez sur nous
110. Saint ronan (possibly)
111. Sambut
112. Santagata
113. Santagata (?part of)
114. Smarapaan
115. Sperrbrecher 171 (possibly)
116. Tbd 317
117. The queen
118. Toornvliet (probably)
119. Tusnastabb (possibly)
120. U 11 (possibly)
121. U 16 (possibly)
122. U 37
123. U 48
124. Ub 29 (possibly)
125. Uc 26
126. Uc 46
127. Uc 46 (possibly)
128. Uc 78 or uc 79
129. Virginie
130. Virgo sancta
131. Western farmer (bow section)
132. 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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