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 (53.3729833, 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.

 

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