Archaeology Notes

Event ID 760741

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NW88SE 8001 8592 8051

N55 4.3667 W5 21.2167

NLO: Corsewall Point [name: NW 980 728].

Formerly entered as NW88SE 1 and NW88SE 9274.

See also NB41SE 8003.

(Classified as LSI(S) [Landing Ship, Infantry, Small]).

Displacement: 2938grt.

Dimensions: 360ft [109.8m] between perpendiculars, 370ft [112.8m] overall x 46ft [14m] x 13.75ft [4.2m]

Machinery: 2-shaft diesel motors (17000bhp) = 23 kts

Armament: 2x12 pdr AA (2x1), 2x2pdr AA (2x1), 6x20mm AA (6x1) guns

Complement: 200

Pendant no. 4.35.

Prince Phillipe: this vessel was built by Cockerill [Hoboken] 29 September 1939, and converted in 1941 to carry 250 troops and eight LCA's [Landing Craft Assault]. She was lost on 15 July 1941.

H T Lenton and J J Colledge 1968.

Quality of fix = HF

Evidence = Echo sounder

Horizontal Datum = OGB

General water depth = 61

Orientation of keel/wreck = 170350

Circumstances of Loss Details

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The HMS PRINCE PHILLIPE was a Belgian vessel requisitioned and used as raiding craft carrier. It sank following a collision with an unknown vessel.

Source: Dictionary of Disasters at Sea

Surveying Details

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1945. Sonar contact indicates a length of 110 feet (33 metres), and a height of 11.5 metres in 55 04 12N, 005 21 06W. The wreck lies on an orientation of 150/230 degrees.

Source: Western Approaches List.

17 January 1945. A good contact was obtained at 55 04 12N, 005 21 06W. It was classified as rock.

20 July 1972. This site is undoubtedly a wreck. It was located at 55 04 22N, 005 21 13W. The least echosounder depth was 49.8 in a general depth of 61 metres.

Report by HMS FOX.

12 September 1972. The site was located by decca - purple e 56.89 [u]. The least echosounder depth was 49.8 metres. A scour 2 metres deep was observed. The length is 320 feet (97.5 metres) approximately. It lies with its keel on an orientation of 170/350 degrees. It is thought to be too large to be the wreck of the BUFFALO.

Report by HMS FOX.

8 November 1982. A wreck is listed at decca [n brit] red f 3.50, purple e 56.50. The conversion gives 55 04 20N, 05 21 99W.

Source: Kingfisher trawling plot - a-plot 7, 1982.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as Landing Ship: date of loss cited as 15 July 1941). [HMS] Prince Philippe: this vessel was in collision and sank 8 miles NW of Corsewall Point (Empire Wave).

Registration: Belgian. Built 1939. 2938grt. Length: 107m. Beam: 15m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 4.37 W5 21.22).

I G Whittaker 1998.

This wreck is charted [Wk} at a depth of 50m on a broadly level seabed in about 60m charted depth of water. No seabed type is indicated locally.

The equation of this wreck with the reported loss of the Prince Philippe remains unverified. For an alternative suggested location of loss in the North Minch, see NB41SE 8003.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 May 2007.

UKHO chart no. 2199 (1978, revised 1989).