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 (53.372983333333, 1.0462166666667)

 

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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. Ayrshire (possibly)
9. Baron ailsa
10. Bertha
11. Birtley
12. Blackburn
13. Blackburn (possibly)
14. Boulderpool (fwd part)
15. British triumph
16. Burgos
17. Camilla weston
18. Cantabria (probably)
19. Carrier
20. Chatwood (possibly)
21. Chelsea (possibly)
22. Chevychase
23. Clan morrison
24. Clansman (possibly)
25. Continental (possibly)
26. Corchester
27. Corea
28. Cormarsh
29. Czestochowa
30. Duncarron
31. Efos
32. Eikhaug
33. Empire newcomen
34. Empress
35. Ethel
36. Fireglow
37. Francois trixier
38. Friesland
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 fleet tender c (ex-mamari iii)
52. Hms francolin
53. Hms kylemore
54. Hms nogi
55. Hms solomon
56. Hms vortigern
57. Hmsm c 11
58. Hmsm umpire
59. Homefire
60. Hull trader
61. I t l anna b
62. Jessie maersk
63. Jevington court
64. Kenton
65. Keymun
66. King egbert
67. La combattante (stern section)
68. Lanterna (probably)
69. Londoner (probably)
70. Marden
71. Minorca
72. Nimrod (probably)
73. Ogono
74. Ole bull
75. Ottar jarl
76. Otter
77. P.l.m. 25
78. Pacific
79. Pacific (possibly)
80. Pacific (possibly)
81. Pegrix
82. Pontfield (forepart)
83. Rimac
84. Robert w pomeroy
85. Rosalie (possibly)
86. Salvus ii
87. Schieland
88. Sitona
89. St mark
90. St thomas (possibly)
91. Tayjack 1 (part of)
92. Tayjack 1 (part of)
93. Tayjack 1 (part of)
94. Teddington
95. Thursonian
96. Trajan
97. Traviata (possibly)
98. Trelissick
99. Tyneford
100. Upminster
101. Varoy
102. Vera (probably)
103. Virgin de lourdres
104. Welholme (possibly)
105. Western mist (possibly)
106. Westland
107. Winhill or whinhill
108. Zephyr
109. 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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