Record Details

NHER Number:18743
Type of record:Maritime
Name:World War Two wreck

Summary

A wreck is marked on an Admiralty chart of 1957. It is probably the merchant vessel Upminster, which was bombed and sunk in January 1940.

Images - none

Location

Parish:NORTH SEA, -, NORFOLK

Full description

Wreck.
Marked on Admiralty chart 1957 as at 53 degrees 02' north, 1 degree 30' east.
E. Rose (NAU), 28 January 1983.

Merchant vessel Upminster, bombed 10 January 1940.
Wreck intact 1962.
See details in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 27 January 1984.

Monument Types

  • WRECK (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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