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 (53.0506667, 1.1718667)

 

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