This is the information page about the shipwreck Hmsm upstart, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 30.414 N,1 32.794 W (50.506900, -1.546567)

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.

Name: HMSM UPSTART

Length 60 meter, width: 4.9 meter, draught: 4, tonnage 740 ton

Cause: built in 1942 by vickers armstrong, barrow-in-furness. two oil engines of 317bhp, twin shaft. passage ex-portmouth for scuttling. one 3 inch deck gun, 4 x 21 inch tt. sunk for use as a sonar target. deck gun and props removed prior to sinking.

Year of registration: 1974

Water depth above wreck: 37 meter, Height above seabed: 290 cm

Known since: 1974, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: H525 19.3.74 EXAM'D IN 503022N, 013245W. SWEPT CLEAR 32.5MTRS, FOUL 34.3MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 32.8 IN GEN DEPTH 37.0MTRS. NO SCOUR. (SCES, H525 NO 5/73). BR STD. H1284/75 19.6.75 WK OF SUBMARINE LOCATED. LIES E/W IN 115FT OF WATER AT THE CONNING TOWER. STANDS 23FT HIGH ON SEA BED. MAY BE THE SUBMARINE A.3, SUNK 17.5.1912. APPLICATION TO MOD(N)-CONTRACTS TO PURCHASE WRECK. (LETTER FROM SPITHEAD MARINE SALVAGE LTD OF SOUTHSEA DTD 10.6.75). H1287/75 27.8.75 MAY BE THE SUBMARINE HMS UPSTART, SUNK 29.7.1957, IN A POSITION GIVEN AS 'OFF THE ISLE OF WIGHT', FOR USE AS ASDIC TARGET. (N/CP55225/75 FROM DCN(S). H2555/74 12.1.79 IDENTIFIED AS SMALL SUBMARINE, WITH BOWS EAST. CONNING TOWER LISTING TO PORT 20DEGS, THIS BEING THE PART WHICH GIVES PECULIAR E/S EFFECT. HAS NO GUN AND TOWER IS OF VERY BASIC, ROUND DESIGN WITH HATCH OPEN AS IS LARGER HATCH ON REAR DECKING. PRESSURE HULL APPEARS SOUND AND IS MOSTLY BURIED IN SAND/SHINGLE. PROPELLERS ARE MISSING. DOES NOT CORRESPOND WITH PHOTOGRAPH OF A.3 BOTH IN SIZE OR SHAPE OF CONNING TOWER. (J JAMES). HH090/962/01 4.12.02 EXAM'D IN 5030.415N, 0132.794W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 29.6, FOUL 29.9MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 30.0 IN GEN DEPTH 36MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 65MTRS, WIDTH 13MTRS. DCS3 HT 5.6MTRS. POOR MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT AND UPRIGHT. PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE, HI 962). AMEND TO SW 29.5MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2020/000123102 5.10.21 EXAM’D 29.9.20 IN 5030.414N, 0132.794W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 30.15TRS IN GEN DEPTH 37MTRS. LENGTH 60MTRS, WIDTH 9MTRS, HT 6.6MTRS. ORIENTATION 290/110 DEGS. (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY AB, HI 1586). AMEND DW 30MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, BOWS E

Position: 50 30.414 N,1 32.794 W

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