This is the information page about the shipwreck Aline montreuil, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 2.784 N,1 9.906 W (50.242166666667, -1.28825)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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.
Name: ALINE MONTREUIL
Length 78.9 meter, width: 11.3 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1624 ton
Load: ballast
Cause: built in 1900 by strand slipway co. owned at the time of loss by montreuil & co. was torpedoed and sunk by german submarine while on passage rouen for swansea. (ll ww1 & dods).
Year of registration: 1917
Water depth above wreck: 72 meter
Known since: 1917, last detected: 2003
Details measurements/cartography: 1917 SANK IN 500200N, 011500W APPROX. (DOCKET M72850). NCA. 5.3.90 WK 64MTRS SHOWN IN 500251N, 010948W ON FR 6857 [1986 EDN]; STATED AS WK 64.2MTRS IN 500250N, 010949W [EUR] WITH POSN ACCURACY 20MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 72MTRS IN FR WK RECORDS NO 18101013 [CORR TO JAN 1990]. NC 2613. 4.3.91 [OGB] POSN: 500244.5N, 010948.5W. NE 2450. 28.8.03 DIVED 24.4.03 AND IDENTIFIED AS THE 'ALINE MONTREUIL' IN POSN 5002.764N, 0109.897W [WGD]. LEAST DEPTH BY GAUGE 70MTRS ABOVE THE BOILER AT LOW WATER. BOILER 8MTRS HIGH. BOW 3 MTRS, REST WELL BROKEN UP. BELL RECOVERED. (G GOOCH, FAX DTD 14.8.03). NCA. 4.12.12 [WGD] POSN: 5002.784N, 0109.906W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: GENERALLY WELL BROKEN UP
Position: 50 2.784 N,1 9.906 W