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, 2.5103666666667)

 

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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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2. A-15 (possibly)
3. Aloha
4. Anton hammerbacher
5. Apache
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7. Auretta
8. Bourrasque
9. Bowsprite (bow section)
10. Bowsprite (bow section)
11. Bramden (possibly)
12. Clan macalister
13. Clan macneil (possibly)
14. Cmb 1
15. Cmb 71a
16. Dageraad
17. De wandilaar
18. Dortmund
19. Douaisien (possibly)
20. Ely
21. Emeraude
22. Empire path
23. Etendard
24. Fenella (possibly)
25. Fennella
26. Fl5
27. Floride (probably)
28. G 96
29. Gold shell
30. Halo (probably)
31. Heinkel 111
32. Hm motor launch 561
33. Hms basilisk
34. Hms brilliant
35. Hms colsay
36. Hms gracie fields
37. Hms grafton
38. Hms grafton
39. Hms grenade
40. Hms hayburn wyke
41. Hms keith
42. Hms plumpton (probably)
43. Hms polly johnson
44. Hms sirius
45. Hms skipjack
46. Hms st abbs
47. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
48. Hms wakeful
49. Hms waverley
50. Hms whitley
51. Hoop op vrede (n 741)
52. Horst
53. Jaguar
54. Kap arkona
55. Kestrel
56. Keulse vaart iv
57. Kilmore
58. L'urtiga (possibly)
59. Laura
60. Lct(r) 457
61. Lorina
62. Lorina (possibly)
63. Lst 420 (bow section)
64. Lst 420 (stern section)
65. Lucy jenny ii
66. M 3610
67. Marie
68. Mariner (possibly)
69. Maurice
70. Mona's queen
71. Mont louis
72. Msc alyssa
73. Nashaba
74. Nautica ena
75. P 319
76. Putten
77. Queen of the channel (possibly)
78. Quo vadis
79. R.93 (possibly)
80. Ra.2 (possibly)
81. Rita
82. Robert l vann
83. Robert-clara
84. S 220
85. S.192 (possibly)
86. Sabrina
87. Saint camille
88. Saint therese de jesus
89. Sampa
90. Sea hunter
91. Senator holthusen
92. Senator sthamer
93. Sigurds faulbaums
94. Sperrbrecher 170 (probably)
95. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
96. St fagan
97. Sterre der zee
98. Toquet
99. Torpilleur branlebas
100. Trifels
101. Tringa
102. U 11
103. Ub29
104. V 201 (possibly)
105. Vlaanderen (probably)
106. West-hinder
107. Wielingen ii (possibly)
108. Wielingen ltv
109. Wolf
110. Zeester

 

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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