This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms whitley, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 9.067 N,2 39.554 E (51.1325, 2.5103667)

 

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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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Name: HMS WHITLEY

Length 95.1 meter, width: 9.1 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 1100 ton

Cause: Built in 1918 bt w doxford & sons. yarrow boilers, turbine engines of 27000 shp for 34 knots. four 4 inch, two 2 pdr guns, 5 mschine guns, 6 torpedo tubes. attacked by german aircraft and damaged by bombs. beached between nieuport and ostende. four men lost. (dods).

Year of registration: 1945

Water depth above wreck: 4 meter

Known since: 1945, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H3765/47 23.9.45 POSN 510913N, 023923E. (BELGIAN NM 262/47). INS DW WITH G CON CLOSE W.

- NM 2555/47. H3765/47 4.3.48 BELGIAN NM 275/47 REFERS. NCA. H3765/47 22.4.59 INS LT ON MAST & ADD LT GP.FL(3)G.10S TO BUOY. (BELGIAN NM 18/114/58).

- NM 2315/58. H3765/47 9.3.64 AMEND TO ST, WITH G CON, GP.FL(3)G.10S BUOY CLOSE NW. (BELGIAN NM 222/63).

- NM 485/64. H3765/47 28.10.69 POSN NOW 510908N, 023937E [EUR]. (OSTEND NM 161/69). BR STD. H3007/71 3.11.71 AMEND BUOY TO G CAN, GP.FL(3)G, RAREFL. (BELGIAN NM 135/71). BR STD. H3007/71 23.5.72 ADD G CAN BUOY CLOSE SE. (BELGIAN NM 53/72). LC 1872. 23.4.74 SHOWN AS ST ON NETH 1035. H3765/47 2.8.76 AMEND LT BUOY POSN TO 510912N, 023931E. (BELGIAN NM 105/76). BR STD. 12.1.77 BUOYS NOW N CARD, Q, 150MTRS NW OF WK & S CARD 100MTRS SE. IALA NE 125. H1310/80 15.10.80 WK IN APPROX POSN 510900N, 023930E. DIVED ON 20.9.80. NAME 'WHITLEY' ON BOTH SIDES OF STERN. DEPTH CHARGES STILL ON STERN RACKS. SHELLS, MARKED '4 INCH MKS XVI & XVI GUNS N 1939' FOUND. (J COULON, 30.9.80). H1310/81/29 13.11.81 INVESTIGATED DURING 1981. ONLY STERN REMAINS INTACT. REMAINDER MUCH DAMAGED AND DISPERSED ON SEABED. (J COULON, 3.11.81). H1545/64 28.6.88 NOW SW 1.6MTRS IN 510907N, 023938E [EUR]. (OSTEND NM 11/89/88).

- NM 2111/88. SEP 2010/000138707 18.10.10 SHOWN AS SW 1.4MTRS [LAT] IN 5109.067N, 0239.554E [WGD] WITH N CARD PILLAR LT BUOY, Q, 'OOSTDUINKERKE', CLOSE NW & S CARD PILLAR LT BUOY, Q(6)+LFL 15 SEC, 'WK 3', CLOSE E ON BELGIAN 102 [NE 1.6.10, 1:60,000].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 9.067 N,2 39.554 E

 

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