This is the information page about the shipwreck Aloha, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 14.92 N,2 42.199 E (51.1325, 2.5103666666667)
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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: ALOHA
Length 41.8 meter, width: 4.6 meter, draught: 1.5, tonnage 137 ton
Cause: a type a1 destroyer. sunk by gunfire from british destroyers.
Year of registration: 1969
Water depth above wreck: 9 meter
Known since: 1988, last detected: 2018
Details measurements/cartography: 6.6.69 SUNK IN APPROX POSN 511500N, 024000E. H2731/85 14.10.88 SW 8.2MTRS IN 511458N, 024217E. (OOSTENDE NM 117/88).
- NM 3420/88. HH100/351/02 9.4.90 WK OF SMALL VESSEL DIVED ON IN 511500N, 024220E. ABOUT 38MTRS LONG. STERN SECTION COMPLETE. NO SUPERSTRUCTURE. BOW LIES ALONGSIDE, THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN BLOWN OFF BY MINE IN 1940. SANDWAVE, SHOALER THAN WK, ORIENTATED N/S SITUATED ABOUT 50YDS W OF WK. (D TERMOTE, 26.3.90). HH342/350/01 5.12.90 POSN NOW FOUL. (OSTEND NM 140/90). BR STD. HH100/351/04 28.3.91 WK WAS REMOVED DURING THE SUMMER OF 1990. (J COULON, 11.3.91). NCA. SEP 2010/000138707 18.10.10 SHOWN IN 5114.920N, 0242.199E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 102 [NE 1.6.10, 1:60,000].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: WK LIFTED 1990
Position: 51 14.92 N,2 42.199 E