This is the information page about the shipwreck Upminster, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 2.511 N,1 30.08 E (52.7959833, 1.6965)

 

Open the Water Map of this area in a full window
 

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

 

Name: UPMINSTER

Length 66.1 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 1013 ton
Load: coal

Cause: 9.1.40 built in 1934 by burnisland sb co ltd, burntisland. owned at time of loss by hudson ss co. one boiler, triple expansion engine of 112hp, single shaft. machinery aft by ne marine engine co. passage methil for london. cargo coal. bombed by german aircraft on 9.1.40. sank following day.

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 28 meter, Height above seabed: 11 cm

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H100/40 18.1.40 UNK IN 530300N, 012900E, APPROX. (FO HUMBER, 11.1.40). - PFNM 144/40. H259/40 14.5.40 INS AS NDW (PA) IN 530300N, 012900E.

- NM 1179/40. H213/40 INS G CON BUOY, GPFL(3) G 10S. - TFNM 2250/40. H953/40 20.2.41 EXAM'D IN 530232N, 012958E. LEAST DEPTH OVER WK IS 67FT. (HMS FRANKLIN, SEPT/OCT 1940). AMEND TO WK 11FMS.

- NM 350/41. H332 4.2.63 A/S CONFIRMS CHARTED POSN. (HMS SCOTT, 1962). 15.4.70 AMEND TO WK 11FMS 1FT. LC 1503. 11.5.72 AMEND TO WK 20.1MTRS. NC 106. HH090/524/01 7.1.92 EXAM'D 25.7.91 IN 530229N, 013011E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 21.7, FOUL AT 22.0MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 21.5 IN GEN DEPTH 27.8MTRS. SCOUR 2MTRS DEEP. DCS3 HT 5MTRS, LENGTH 60MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. LIES 030/210 DEG WITH SCOUR EXTENDING 25MTRS TO THE E. (LAND & MARINE, HI 531). AMEND TO SW 21.5MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2018/000212985 10.9.18 EXAM'D 30.3.18 IN 5302.511N, 0130.080E [WGD]. LEAST W/C DEPTH 22.27MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 28MTRS, LENGTH 61.5MTRS, WIDTH 16.9MTRS, HEIGHT 5.1MTRS, ORIENTATION 011/191 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 100.8MTRS, 2.6MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 140 DEGS. INTACT AND PARTIALLY BURIED.(GARDLINE, HI 1515). AMEND TO DW 22MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 2.511 N,1 30.08 E

 

Wrecks near the Netherlands
Wrecks near Belgium
Wrecks near Germany
Wrecks near France
Wrecks near Great Britain
Wrecks off Denmark
Wrecks off Sweden
Wrecks off Norway