This is the information page about the shipwreck Armas, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 44.24 N,2 14.99 W (49.520666666667, -2.4196666666667)

 

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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, 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.

 

1. Adamandios georgandis (possibly)
2. Agenoria
3. Agrion
4. Ambassadrice
5. Antonis g lemos (probably)
6. Armas
7. Baden
8. Beatrice maud
9. Beauport
10. Belle colombe
11. Bess mitchell
12. Bohera
13. Bonafide
14. Bremenry
15. Brighton
16. British influence
17. Bronte (ex-war coney)
18. Buchanness
19. Cab
20. Cabo villano
21. Calvados
22. Cap horn des mers
23. Carpathia
24. Carrouest one (possibly)
25. Carrouest one (possibly)
26. Cid
27. Citta de bari
28. Clarrie
29. Constantia s (after part)(possibly)
30. Constantia s (after part)(possibly)
31. Constantia s (fwd part)
32. Corail
33. Dambuster
34. Discovery
35. Dr rudolf wahrendorff
36. Edirne
37. Eika
38. Eleni stathatou
39. Ella
40. Emily eveson
41. Empress
42. Felix de abasolo
43. Fermain
44. Finnborg
45. Ford power
46. Foreland
47. Forth
48. Gairsoppa
49. Ginette
50. Guilding star
51. Hms ashanti (bow section)
52. Hms dragon
53. Hms edgehill
54. Hms rhyl
55. Hms viper
56. Hopper
57. Ievoli sun
58. Jeanne
59. Johan (possibly)
60. Josef joham (stern half) (probably)
61. Jules
62. Karen folmer
63. La havre
64. Le nord
65. Le poilu
66. Lenda
67. Linn o dee (or linn o dec)
68. Liverpool
69. M 483
70. Mahenge (possibly)
71. Makeshift (possibly)
72. Marie mashman
73. Mary toovey
74. Maud pierre andre (possibly)
75. Mera 1
76. Mersey
77. Mimosa
78. Motorola
79. Nyarlathotep
80. Oost vlaanderen
81. Pan
82. Pembroke
83. Pendragon b
84. Peras
85. Perra (possibly)
86. Phoenix c1/131
87. Pizarro
88. Point law
89. Portsea
90. Progress
91. Pruthree
92. Psi
93. Rabbi
94. Rap
95. Regina coeli (possibly)
96. Rfa bacchus
97. Rhenania
98. Rontegui
99. Saint antoine
100. Solway prince (possibly)
101. Stade (after part)
102. Stade (possibly)
103. Stanley force
104. Stella (probably)
105. Terra
106. Tipasa
107. Tyne
108. U 672 (possibly)
109. Ullyses
110. Victorine
111. Ville de malaga
112. Waverley

 

Name: ARMAS

Length 106.4 meter, width: 14.9 meter, draught: 8.8, tonnage 2526 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1953 by orenstein-koppel & lubecker masch, lubeck. owned at time of loss by the daisy shipping co ltd. passage nantes for le havre. stranded on great nannel reef, off burhou, nw of alderney. broke in two in heavy seas. 1 man lost. (msd).

Year of registration: 1973

Water depth above wreck: 0 meter

Known since: 1973, last detected: 1991

Details measurements/cartography: 16.1.74 REPORTED TO BE BREAKING UP. APPARENTLY BROKEN FORWARD OF BRIDGE FRONT. FORWARD SECTION NOW SUNK WITH PORT BOW ONLY AWASH. AFTER PART DOWN BY STERN. SEAS SWEEPING SUPERSTRUCTURE. (LL, 15.1.74). 25.1.74 STRANDED IN 494418N, 021454W. BOW SECTION AWASH AT HW. AFTER PART STILL APPARENTLY STRUCTURALLY INTACT. (LL, 18.1.74). CHART AS ST PA. NC 3653. HH100/351/04 7.6.91 LOCATED AS CHARTED. ENGINE AND PART OF BOW STILL EXPOSED. DOUBLE BOTTOM BETWEEN BOTH PARTS IS CONTINUOUS AT A MAX. DEPTH OF 9MTRS. NO SUPERSTRUCTURE REMAINS. THICK KELP OBSCURES MOST OF THE SITE. (LT R A HUNTER, PORTSMOUTH E RN SUB AQUA CLUB, 24.5.91). NCA. 31.8.06 WGD POSN: 4944.240N, 0214.990W. NE 60 [3RD EDN, MAY '04].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: ONLY ENGINE AND BOW EXPOSED

Position: 49 44.24 N,2 14.99 W

 

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