Wreck of HMS Exmouth
United Kingdom
- Position
- Not published (protected site)
- Sank
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- Cause
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- Depth
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Protection status
Location withheld to protect a controlled site
The position of this site is not published.
Designated a controlled site (Controlled site under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 (SI 2026/286)). Any operation there needs a licence.
Legal basis: Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 (UK).
How this was decided: an official list, confidence 95%. When in doubt, Voydar generalises the position.
HMS Exmouth was an E-class destroyer flotilla leader built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. Although assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion, the ship was attached to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1935–36 during the Abyssinia Crisis. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 she spent considerable time in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. Exmouth was assigned to convoy escort and anti-submarine patrol duties in the Western Approaches when World War II began in September 1939. She was sunk by a German submarine in January 1940 while escorting a merchant ship north of Scotland.
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