This is the information page about the shipwreck Artesien, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 43 4.225 N,5 57.391 E (43.060533333333, 6.0087833333333)

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.

Name: ARTESIEN

Length 100.9 meter, width: 14.3 meter, draught: 6.7, tonnage 3152 ton

Cause: built in 1921 by j redhead & sons. owned at time of loss by cie. des bat. a vap. du nord. was torpedoed & sunk by an allied submarine off toulon. (dods).

Year of registration: 1944

Water depth above wreck: 48 meter

Known since: 1944, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H1707/59 27.8.59 WK, LEAST DEPTH 32MTRS, IN 430412N, 055726E. (PARIS NM 59/05/25). R/S. H1707/59 18.5.60 SALVAGE OPS IN PROGRESS. (PARIS TNM 60/16/56). NCA. H1707/59 9.8.60 SALVAGE OPS IN PROGRESS MARKED BY 5 BUOYS. 60FT WATER REPD OVER WRECK. ATTEMPTS TO SALVAGE CARGO. (HMS TUDOR, HN 1/60). NCA. H1707/59 1.2.61 SALVAGE WORKS. (PARIS TNMS 61/03/32 & 61/12/70). NCA. 18.3.76 SHOWN AS WK 32MTRS ON FRENCH 5093 [10TH EDN 1975]. 4.6.85 STATED TO BE LARGE CARGO VESSEL 'ARTESIEN' IN 430415.8N, 055729.4E [EUR]. LEAST DEPTH BY E/S 32MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 48MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1984). NC 149. 10.3.89 WK 44MTRS SHOWN IN 430418N, 055727.2E [EUR] ON FRENCH 7093 [1988 EDN]. NE 149. 19.7.01 WK 44MTRS SHOWN IN 4304.300N, 0557.453E [EUR] ON FRENCH 7093 [INT 3198] [2000 EDN, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NC 2170. 15.7.04 SHOWN IN 4304.233N, 0557.395E [WGD] ON FRENCH 7093 [INT 3198] [4TH EDN 2004, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NE 2170. SEP 2015/000220748 19.10.15 SHOWN AS WK 44MTRS IN 4304.233N, 0557.395E [WGD] ON FRENCH 7407. [ED2 COR 18.08.15]. NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 43 4.225 N,5 57.391 E

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