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 (52.795983333333, 1.6965)

 

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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. Aquarius (possibly)
9. Artemisia
10. Asteria
11. Ayrshire (possibly)
12. Barrhill
13. Bertha
14. Birtley
15. Boulderpool (fwd part)
16. British triumph
17. Camilla weston
18. Cantabria (probably)
19. Cardanel
20. Chevychase
21. Clan morrison
22. Clansman (possibly)
23. Continental (possibly)
24. Corchester
25. Corduff
26. Corea
27. Courier (probably)
28. Duncarron
29. Efos
30. Eikhaug
31. Empress
32. Ems
33. Ethel
34. Friesland
35. Fulgens
36. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
37. Gardenia
38. Georgia (for'd part)
39. Georgia (stern section)
40. Glen derry (probably)
41. Granta
42. Hauxley (possibly)
43. Hms agate
44. Hms arley
45. Hms caroline moller
46. Hms cloughton wyke
47. Hms dungeness
48. Hms force
49. Hms francolin
50. Hms kylemore
51. Hms nogi
52. Hms vortigern
53. Hms william stephen
54. Hmsm c 11
55. Homefire
56. Hull trader
57. I t l anna b
58. Ilse
59. Jessie maersk
60. Jevington court
61. Kenton
62. Keymun
63. King egbert
64. Lanterna (probably)
65. Leelite
66. Londoner (probably)
67. Marden
68. Marsworth
69. Meriones
70. Minorca
71. Norman queen
72. Oakgrove
73. Ole bull
74. Ottar jarl
75. Otter
76. Oxshott (possibly)
77. Pacific (possibly)
78. Pacific (possibly)
79. Pegrix
80. Pontfield (forepart)
81. Rimac
82. Rose marie
83. Salvus ii
84. Seagull
85. Seaham
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. Walkure
102. Welholme (possibly)
103. Western mist (possibly)
104. Westland
105. Whintown (possibly)
106. Winhill or whinhill
107. 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

 

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