This is the information page about the shipwreck Hmsm umpire, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 9.964 N,1 6.008 E (53.3729833, 1.0462167)

 

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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. Algarve
3. Amberley
4. Ambrose fleming
5. Antiope
6. Aquarius (possibly)
7. Baron ailsa
8. Birtley
9. Blackburn
10. Burgos
11. Carrier
12. Chatwood (possibly)
13. Chelsea (possibly)
14. Chevychase
15. Clan morrison
16. Cormarsh
17. Czestochowa
18. Duncarron
19. Eikhaug
20. Empire newcomen
21. Empress
22. Fireglow
23. Francois trixier
24. George royle
25. Georgia (stern section)
26. Giorgio ohlsen
27. Harden
28. Heathfield
29. Hjordis
30. Hms arley
31. Hms cap d'antifer
32. Hms caroline moller
33. Hms cobra
34. Hms fleet tender c (ex-mamari iii)
35. Hms kylemore
36. Hms solomon
37. Hms vortigern
38. Hmsm umpire
39. Jessie maersk
40. Kenton
41. Keymun
42. La combattante (stern section)
43. Lanterna (probably)
44. Laurium (possibly)
45. Minorca
46. Mirabel
47. Nimrod (probably)
48. Ogono
49. Ottar jarl
50. P.l.m. 25
51. Pacific
52. Pontfield (forepart)
53. Rimac
54. Robert w pomeroy
55. Rosalie (possibly)
56. Schieland
57. Sitona
58. Sverre (possibly)
59. Tayjack 1 (part of)
60. Tayjack 1 (part of)
61. Teddington
62. Trajan
63. Traviata (possibly)
64. Trelissick
65. Tyneford
66. Vera (probably)
67. Virgin de lourdres
68. Welsh prince
69. Western mist (possibly)
70. Westland
71. Wimbledon
72. Winhill or whinhill
73. Zephyr
74. Zor

 

Name: HMSM UMPIRE

Length 59.7 meter, width: 4.9 meter, draught: 4, tonnage 730 ton

Cause: 30.12.40 built chatham dockyard, launched 30.12.40. accidently rammed and sunk by trawler 'peter h kendricks'. (hms wolsey, 19.7.41).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 15 meter, Height above seabed: 35 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 1993

Details measurements/cartography: H02560/41 26.7.41 PFNM 1746/41 ISSUED. H02560/41 15.9.41 LOCATED IN 530952N, 010613E. LEAST DEPTH 24 IN GEN DEPTH 51FT [MLWS]. LIES NEARLY ON AN EVEN KEEL AND MARKED BY STRONG TIDE RIPS. (FOIC, GT YARMOUTH, 4.8.41). INS AS WK 4FMS.

- NM 2055/41. H02560/41 15.9.41 INS G CON, GPFL(3) G W 10S, 030 DEG 0.5C FROM WK. - TFNM 2054/41. H02560/41 30.7.42 SWEPT CLEAR AT 40FT [MLWS]. (CAPT MS HUMBER, 16.7.42). H02560/41 8.12.42 NOT FOUND EITHER BY A/S OR E/S. AREA SWEPT CLEAR AT 40FT. (HMS FRANKLIN, 25.11.42). H02560/41 20.3.43 AMEND TO NDW.

- NM 582/43. 27.9.71 LOCATED IN 530954N, 010600E [OGB] USING DECCA. LEAST DEPTH 36FT, APPROX. (COSAG MARINE SERVICES). AMEND TO WK 6FMS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 1592/71. H2496/72 5.6.72 LOCATED. LIES ON STARBOARD SIDE. DECK AND HULL, AMIDSHIPS, HAVE COLLAPSED AND BOW IS SHATTERED. (E GILES, UNDERMARINE OPS LTD., 27.5.72). 26.11.74 AMEND TO WK 11MTRS [LAT]. NC 108. HH090/593/01 2.3.94 EXAM'D 21.8.93 IN 530956.6N, 010606.8E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [3 LOPS]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 10.0, FOUL AT 10.4MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 10.8 IN GEN DEPTH 15MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 4.2MTRS, LENGTH 54MTRS, BREADTH 19MTRS. PARTIALLY BROKEN AND LYING 035/215 DEG. (OCEONICS (UK) LTD, HI 593).

- NM 956/94. 9.4.17 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, DEFENCE NO 147/2017. COMING INTO FORCE 3.3.17. AMEND "HISTORIC".
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ON STBD SIDE, PARTIALLY BROKEN

Position: 53 9.964 N,1 6.008 E

 

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