This is the information page about the shipwreck Upminster (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 49.774 N,0 9.481 E (53.569150, 0.093600)

 

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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. Ac 9
2. Acklamd (possibly)
3. Airdrie (possibly)
4. Amenity
5. Appolonia
6. Arcona champion
7. Audacity
8. Avalon
9. B o borjesson
10. Beaconsfield
11. Bellerophon
12. Biesbosch
13. Box hill
14. Boys own
15. Brabant
16. Breitenburg
17. Brema
18. British councillor
19. British prince
20. Briton (possibly)
21. Cadmus
22. Cambrai
23. Canada
24. Caroline
25. Chant 63
26. Chloris (possibly)
27. City of birmingham
28. Coastal fort no 1 (part of)(possibly)
29. Coastal fort no-1
30. Corhampton
31. Corinth (possibly)
32. Cyclope
33. Dana (possibly)
34. Daphne ii
35. Dayrian
36. Deerpool (after section)
37. Deerpool (for'd section)
38. Diana
39. Diana
40. Dido
41. Dryade
42. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
43. Dunsany
44. Dunstaffnage
45. Empress (probably)
46. Ethel (possibly)
47. Exmoor
48. Feltre
49. Femke
50. Fermo
51. Forest queen
52. Fowberry tower (part)
53. Fowberry tower (part)
54. Francis
55. Frithof eide
56. Georgios
57. Gerhardt (possibly)
58. Girl ita
59. Giuseppe
60. Goodwood
61. Gothic
62. Graafjeld
63. Grangemouth
64. Hannah louisa
65. Harlech
66. Harnis (probably)
67. Helmsman (probably)
68. Hms akranes
69. Hms benvolio
70. Hms botanic
71. Hms calverton
72. Hms cortina
73. Hms dervish
74. Hms dirk
75. Hms egret
76. Hms fairy
77. Hms falcon (stern section)
78. Hms falmouth
79. Hms lormont
80. Hms mistletoe
81. Hms othello
82. Hms princess victoria
83. Hms remillo
84. Hms st cyrus
85. Hms strathborve (part)
86. Hms susarion
87. Hms yorkshire belle
88. Horsted
89. Hugh taylor
90. Ida
91. Ightham (possibly)
92. Ionic (probably)
93. J b paddon
94. Janet helen (possibly)
95. John mowlem
96. John rettig (probably)
97. Kalo (probably)
98. Kieldrecht (possibly)
99. Kilrea (probably)
100. Kimberley (possibly)
101. Kingston cameo
102. Knuthenborg
103. Kyma
104. Laconia (possibly)
105. Ladas (possibly)
106. Lady anstruther (probably)
107. Lady dinah
108. Lifeguard (possibly)
109. Lindum
110. Longbenton (probably)
111. Lord haig (possibly)
112. Lord haig (possibly)
113. Lord selborne
114. Lottie (possibly)
115. Lucerne
116. Lyra (bow section)
117. Magdalyn ann
118. Maggie
119. Magnolia (probably)
120. Manchester engineer (probably)
121. Mangalore (part of)(possibly)
122. Marian francis
123. Markersdall (probably)
124. Marshall (probably)
125. Mazeppa
126. Modig
127. Modiva (possibly)
128. Monimia (possibly)
129. Nadod (possibly)
130. Nautilus
131. Nitedal
132. Norfolk coast
133. Odessa
134. Onward (possibly)
135. Ophir ii (possibly)
136. Orsa
137. Otis tetrax
138. Our lorraine
139. Paraciers
140. Peebles (possibly)
141. Peggotty
142. Portia
143. Rayford
144. Realf
145. Reculver
146. Retriever
147. Revi
148. River don (part of)(probably)
149. River witham
150. Rosa
151. Sagacity
152. Salacon
153. Salmondby
154. Saltoun
155. Sandra glen
156. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
157. Sirajah
158. Sna iii
159. Sota eduardo
160. Stanburn
161. Storm drift
162. Teano
163. Tees
164. Thea
165. Thomas deas
166. Togston (possibly)
167. Tredegar hall
168. Triton
169. Ub 107 & malvina (after part)
170. Uc 39
171. Uc 47
172. Uc 75
173. Umbe
174. Upminster (possibly)
175. Varangmalm (possibly)
176. Ville de valenciennes
177. War crocus (possibly)
178. Wayside flower (possibly)
179. Whitemantle (possibly)
180. William hanson
181. Windsor (part of)
182. Windsor (part of)
183. Winga
184. Xavier
185. Xavier
186. Zeemermin

 

Name: UPMINSTER (POSSIBLY)

Length 85.3 meter, width: 12.5 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 2176 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1917 by osburne graham & co, sunderland. owned at time of loss by hudson ss co, london. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 215hp, single shaft. machinery by richardsons, westgarth & co ltd, sunderland. passage london for methil. in ballast. sank follwing collision with ss lanrick.

Year of registration: 1928

Water depth above wreck: 26 meter, Height above seabed: 170 cm

Known since: 1929, last detected: 2008

Details measurements/cartography: H2945/28 12.5.28 H2945/28 12.5.28 SUNK IN COLLISION WITH SS LANRICK,15M S OF FLAMBOROUGH HD. (LL 3.5.28). H2945/28 10.5.28 H2945/28 UNSUCCESSFULLY SEARCHED FOR. A SPAR WAS LOCATED AND RECOVERED, BUT NO WRECK. (TH 10.5.28). H3805/72 14.8.78 H3805/72 14.8.78 WK EXAM'D IN 534947N, 000944E [OGB]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 19.4MTRS. (SOISS, ROS DTD 30-11-77 & LTR DTD 6.4.78 IN H1942/76). BR STD. H1944/80 26.4.82 H1944/80 26.4.82 EXAM'D 12.6.81 IN 534946N, 000937E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 18.1MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 25.6MTRS. NO SCOUR. HYDROSEARCH VERTICAL HT 7.5MTRS. LYING 170/350DEGS. BOWS N & PARTIALLY BURIED IN SEABED. BOWS HAVE COLLAPSED. SUPERSTRUCTURE & FUNNEL. SHOALEST PART AT S END. SONAR LENGTH 94MTRS, BEAM 9.5MTRS. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 12). AMEND TO WK 18.1MTRS.

- NM 1147/82. 25.11.08 25.11.08 WK LOCATED IN 5349.7744N, 0009.4806E [WGD], APPROX 90MTRS LENGTH. (EMU LTD, EMAIL DTD 21.11. 08). AMEND POSN. BR STD. 20.1.08 20.1.08 MINUMUM RECORDED HEIGHT AS BEING 22MTRS BELOW CHART DATUM. (EMU LTD, EMAIL DTD 16.1.09). RETAIN AS WK 18.1MTRS. NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, BOWS N & COLLAPSED, SUPERSTRUCTURE & FUNNEL

Position: 53 49.774 N,0 9.481 E

 

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