This is the information page about the shipwreck Homefire, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 5.449 N,1 28.22 E (53.050666666667, 1.1718666666667)

 

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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. Aberhill
2. Actuosity (possibly)
3. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
4. Algarve
5. Alice taylor
6. Alster
7. Alston
8. Ambrose fleming
9. Aquarius (possibly)
10. Artemisia
11. Asteria
12. Ayrshire (possibly)
13. Baron ailsa
14. Barrhill
15. Bertha
16. Birtley
17. Boulderpool (fwd part)
18. British triumph
19. Camilla weston
20. Cantabria (probably)
21. Chevychase
22. Clan morrison
23. Clansman (possibly)
24. Continental (possibly)
25. Corchester
26. Corduff
27. Corea
28. Courier (probably)
29. Duncarron
30. Efos
31. Eikhaug
32. Empress
33. Ems
34. Ethel
35. Francois trixier
36. Friesland
37. Fulgens
38. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
39. Gardenia
40. George royle
41. Georgia (for'd part)
42. Georgia (stern section)
43. Granta
44. Hauxley (possibly)
45. Hms arley
46. Hms caroline moller
47. Hms cloughton wyke
48. Hms dungeness
49. Hms francolin
50. Hms kylemore
51. Hms nogi
52. Hms solomon
53. Hms vortigern
54. Hms william stephen
55. Hmsm c 11
56. Homefire
57. Hull trader
58. I t l anna b
59. Ilse
60. Jessie maersk
61. Jevington court
62. Kenton
63. Keymun
64. King egbert
65. Lanterna (probably)
66. Leelite
67. Londoner (probably)
68. Marden
69. Minorca
70. Nimrod (probably)
71. Norman queen
72. Oakgrove
73. Ole bull
74. Ottar jarl
75. Otter
76. Oxshott (possibly)
77. P.l.m. 25
78. Pacific (possibly)
79. Pacific (possibly)
80. Pegrix
81. Pontfield (forepart)
82. Rimac
83. Rose marie
84. Salvus ii
85. Seagull
86. Seaham
87. Sheaf water
88. Sitona
89. St mark
90. St thomas (possibly)
91. Tayjack 1 (part of)
92. Tayjack 1 (part of)
93. Tayjack 1 (part of)
94. Teddington
95. Thursonian
96. Trajan
97. Traviata (possibly)
98. Trelissick
99. Tyneford
100. Upminster
101. Varoy
102. Walkure
103. Welholme (possibly)
104. Western mist (possibly)
105. Westland
106. Whintown (possibly)
107. Winhill or whinhill
108. Xanthe
109. Zephyr

 

Name: HOMEFIRE

Length 68.6 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 1262 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1925 by s p austin & son, sunderland. owned at time of loss by gas light & coke co. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 156hp, single shaft. passage london for sunderland. in ballast. bombed and sunk by german aircraft. two men lost.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 35 meter, Height above seabed: 32 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H02361/41 2.7.41 SANK IN 530527N, 012808E. LEAST E/S DEPTH 70FT IN GEN DEPTH 16FMS. LIES 064/244 DEG. SWEPT CLEAR BY OROPESA AT 33FT [LWS]. (HMS FRANKLIN, 2.7.41). INS AS WK 5FMS 3FT.

- NM 1815/41. H02361/41 4.10.48 OROPESA SWEEP CLEAR AT 48FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 73 IN GEN DEPTH 93FT. POSN 530520N, 012812E. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 1948). AMEND TO WK 8FMS.

- NM 2094/48. H332/62 4.2.63 CHARTED POSN CONFIRMED. (HMS SCOTT, 1962). 8.3.72 AMEND TO WK 14.3MTRS [LAT]. NC 105. 4.6.91 WK LOCATED IN 530530N, 012817.5E. (PIPELINE TASK FORCE, MOBIL N SEA OIL). NCA. HH090/524/01 9.1.92 EXAM'D 25.7.91 IN 530525.1N, 012819.0E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 22.0, FOUL AT 22.3MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 22.5 IN GEN DEPTH 31MTRS. SCOUR 5MTRS DEEP. LENGTH 75MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS. LIES 045/225 DEG WITH DEEP SCOUR TO SE OUT TO 170MTRS. (LAND & MARINE, HI 531). BR STD. SEP 2018/000212985 7.9.18 EXAM'D 30.3.18 IN 5305.449N, 0128.220W [WGD]. LEAST W/C DEPTH 26.55MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 35MTRS, LENGTH 72.2MTRS, WIDTH 17.5MTRS, HEIGHT 8.7MTRS, ORIENTATION 032/212 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 65.5MTRS, 2.3MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 123 DEGS. INTACT AND PARTIALLY BURIED.(GARDLINE, HI 1515). AMEND TO DW 26.5MTRS IN REVISED POSITION.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 5.449 N,1 28.22 E

 

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