This is the information page about the shipwreck Minorca, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 4.378 N,1 20.252 E (53.372983333333, 1.0462166666667)

 

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

 

Name: MINORCA

Length 67.1 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1123 ton
Load: cement

Cause: built in 1921 by the ouse sb co. owned at time of loss by currie line. triple expansion engine of 160nhp for 9 knots. passage london for grangemouth. cargo cement. torpedoed by e boat. 18 men lost.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 28 meter, Height above seabed: 113 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H0852/41 19.7.41 TORPEDOED FEB 1941. SWEPT CLEAR TO 38FT AT LW. POSN 530419N, 012023E. LIES IN 15FMS. HEADING 280/100 DEG. (HMS FRANKLIN, 20.6.41).

- NM1671/41. H0852/41 7.8.48 SWEPT AFTER DISPERSAL BY OROPESA. CLEAR AT 47FT IN GEN DEPTH 97FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 93FT. POSN 530428N, 012013E. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 1948).

- NM1751/48. 28.8.89 BELL RECOVERED FROM WK IN 530418.5N, 012014.5E. POSN BY DECCA. ENGRAVED WITH NAME 'LYSLAND'. LIES UPRIGHT AND MAINLY INTACT. (P WOODCOCK, TELECON 25.8.89). HH090/561/01 4.1.93 EXAM'D 30.10.92 IN 530420.7N, 012023.7E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 19.9, FOUL AT 20.2MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 19.7 IN GEN DEPTH 27.9MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 0.7MTR. DCS3 HT 7.9MTRS, LENGTH 130MTRS, WIDTH 25MTRS. LIES 157/337 DEG. (SEATEAM, HI 561). ACCEPT SWEPT DEPTH.

- NM 263/93. SEP 2018/000212985 5.9.18 EXAM'D 30.3.18 IN 5304.378N, 0120.252E [WGD]. LEAST W/C DEPTH 19.57MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 28MTRS, LENGTH 75.5MTRS, WIDTH 17.3MTRS, HEIGHT 8MTRS, ORIENTATION 113/293 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 4MTRS, 0.7MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 116 DEGS. INTACT AND UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 1515). AMEND TO DW 19.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: DISPERSED

Position: 53 4.378 N,1 20.252 E

 

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