This is the information page about the shipwreck Westland, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 5.999 N,1 17.592 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. Ahamo
3. Algarve
4. Ambrose fleming
5. Antiope
6. Aquarius (possibly)
7. Asteria
8. Baron ailsa
9. Bertha
10. Birtley
11. Blackburn
12. Boulderpool (fwd part)
13. British triumph
14. Burgos
15. Camilla weston
16. Cantabria (probably)
17. Carrier
18. Chatwood (possibly)
19. Chelsea (possibly)
20. Chevychase
21. Clan morrison
22. Clansman (possibly)
23. Continental (possibly)
24. Corchester
25. Cormarsh
26. Czestochowa
27. Duncarron
28. Efos
29. Eikhaug
30. Empire newcomen
31. Empress
32. Ethel
33. Fireglow
34. Francois trixier
35. Friesland
36. Gardenia
37. George royle
38. Georgia (stern section)
39. Giorgio ohlsen
40. Granta
41. Hauxley (possibly)
42. Heathfield
43. Hms arley
44. Hms cap d'antifer
45. Hms caroline moller
46. Hms cloughton wyke
47. Hms dungeness
48. Hms fleet tender c (ex-mamari iii)
49. Hms francolin
50. Hms kylemore
51. Hms solomon
52. Hms vortigern
53. Hmsm c 11
54. Hmsm umpire
55. Homefire
56. I t l anna b
57. Jessie maersk
58. Jevington court
59. Kenton
60. Keymun
61. King egbert
62. La combattante (stern section)
63. Lanterna (probably)
64. Londoner (probably)
65. Marden
66. Minorca
67. Nimrod (probably)
68. Ogono
69. Ole bull
70. Ottar jarl
71. Otter
72. P.l.m. 25
73. Pacific
74. Pacific (possibly)
75. Pacific (possibly)
76. Pegrix
77. Pontfield (forepart)
78. Rimac
79. Robert w pomeroy
80. Rosalie (possibly)
81. Salvus ii
82. Schieland
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. Virgin de lourdres
98. Welholme (possibly)
99. Western mist (possibly)
100. Westland
101. Winhill or whinhill
102. Zephyr
103. Zor

 

Name: WESTLAND

Length 70.4 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 1283 ton
Load: coal

Cause: Built in 1906 by werf v/h rijkee & co, rotterdam. owned at time of loss by scheepvaart-en steenkolen. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 146hp, single shaft. passage methil for rouen. cargo coal. torpedoed and sunk.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 21 meter, Height above seabed: 105 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 20180327

Details measurements/cartography: 25.5.17 INS WK (OLD SYMBOL) ON 2182A. BR STD. H4282/26 14.10.26 AMEND TO DW PA (1917). BR STD. H0953/40 20.2.41 LOCATED IN 530554N, 011736E. LEAST DEPTH 8FMS. (HMS FRANKLIN, SEPT/OCT 1940).

- NM 350/41. 8.3.72 AMEND TO WK 14.3MTRS. NC 105. H2496/72 5.6.72 DIVED. BOTH ENDS ARE SILTED BUT CENTRE SECTION RISES TO A HUMP OF CONFUSED MASS OF STEEL. STERN IS AT SEABED LEVEL AND BOW STAND ABOUT 6FT ABOVE SEABED. GEN HEIGHT IS ABOUT 15FT AND THE MAX HEIGHT IS ABOUT 21FT. GIRDERS ARE UNLIKELY TO COLLAPSE FURTHER THOUGH THE HIGHEST ONE IS IN A WEAK STATE. NO SCOUR. LIES NE/SW. (UNDERMARINE OPS, 2.5.72). HH090/561/01 5.1.93 EXAM'D 26.9.92 IN 530558.5N, 011741.5E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 17.9, FOUL AT 18.7MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 18.5 IN GEN DEPTH 21.4MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 0.2MTR. DCS3 HT 3.0MTRS, LENGTH 60MTRS, WIDTH 25MTRS. LIES 105/285 DEG. (SEATEAM, HI 561).

- NM 263/93. SEP 2018/000159338 10.7.18 EXAM'D 27.3.18 IN 5305.999N, 0117.592E [WGD]. LEAST W/C DEPTH 16.99MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 21MTRS, LENGTH 68MTRS, WIDTH 14.4MTRS, HEIGHT 4.5MTRS, ORIENTATION 105/285 DEGS. BROKEN AND PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE, HI 1515_H102_002_18). AMEND TO DW 16.9MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ENDS SILTED, CENTRE BROKEN UP. UK NM 4660/18.

Position: 53 5.999 N,1 17.592 E

 

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