This is the information page about the shipwreck Auretta, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 24.434 N,2 48.305 E (51.1325, 2.5103666666667)

 

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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. "t" vliegent hart
2. A 10 (possibly)
3. A-15 (possibly)
4. Aloha
5. Anton hammerbacher
6. Apache
7. Ardmount
8. Auretta
9. Birkenfels
10. Bourrasque
11. Bowsprite (bow section)
12. Bowsprite (bow section)
13. Callisto
14. Charles d mciver
15. Cmb 1
16. Cmb 71a
17. Croxteth hall
18. Dawdon
19. De wandilaar
20. Dortmund
21. Emeraude
22. Empire path
23. Fl5
24. Francis asbury
25. G 96
26. Gold shell
27. Harpalyce
28. Heinkel 111
29. Hm motor launch 561
30. Hms basilisk
31. Hms brilliant
32. Hms colsay
33. Hms gracie fields
34. Hms grafton
35. Hms grafton
36. Hms hayburn wyke
37. Hms maori
38. Hms plumpton (probably)
39. Hms polly johnson
40. Hms sirius
41. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
42. Hms wakeful
43. Hms waverley
44. Hms whitley
45. Hoop op vrede (n 741)
46. Jeannine andre
47. John mahn
48. Kap arkona
49. Keulse vaart iv
50. Kilmore
51. Kompas
52. Lct(r) 457
53. Lst 420 (bow section)
54. Lst 420 (stern section)
55. Lst 80
56. Lucy jenny ii
57. M 3610
58. Marie
59. Marie
60. Maurice
61. Mont louis
62. Msc alyssa
63. Mts vector
64. Nashaba
65. Nautica ena
66. Neutron
67. Neutron
68. Nippon
69. Normandie
70. P 319
71. Putten
72. Queen of the channel (possibly)
73. Quo vadis
74. Ra.2 (possibly)
75. Rijnstroom
76. Rita
77. Robert l vann
78. Robert-clara
79. S 168
80. S 220
81. S.192 (possibly)
82. Sabrina
83. Saint therese de jesus
84. Sampa
85. Samsip
86. Samvern (e part)
87. Samvern (w part)
88. Senator holthusen
89. Senator sthamer
90. Sigurds faulbaums
91. Slera ventana
92. Sperrbrecher 170 (probably)
93. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
94. Torpilleur branlebas
95. U 11
96. Ub 13
97. Ub29
98. Vlaanderen (probably)
99. Wolf
100. Zeester

 

Name: AURETTA

Length 125.6 meter, width: 17.1 meter, draught: 7.6, tonnage 4571 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: mined. (ww2sl). passage london for antwerp. (lloyds war losses).

Year of registration: 1945

Water depth above wreck: 17 meter

Known since: 1945, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK IN 512412N, 024800E, APPROX. (LLOYDS WAR LOSSES). H01279/45 6.4.45 SUNK IN 512436N, 024924E [?024824E], APPROX. (HMS ALBRIGHTON, SIGNAL DTD 26.2.45). HH1310/88 28.9.88 MINED 11 MILES OFF OSTEND. (R VERPOORTE, 26.8.88). POSN 512428N, 024825E. (NETH WK RECORDS). HH342/710/01 23.11.92 SW 15.6MTRS IN 512428.7N, 024822.6E [EUR]. (OOSTENDE NM 184/92).

- NM 3660/92. HH342/710/01 25.3.93 NETH NM 198/93 REFERS. 6.9.93 SHOWN ON NETHERLANDS 3371 [1993 EDN]. HH342/710/01 6.9.93 INS ON 3371.

- NM 3210/93. HH100/351/08 19.11.93 WK IN 512428.7N, 024822.6E CONFIRMED AS THE AURETTA. THE WK WAS DISPERSED IN 1963 BY DUTCH SALVAGE CO ACKERMANS & VAN HAAREN USING EXPLOSIVES. NOW ONLY A 'JUNKYARD'. (M R H VANALDERWEIRELDT, 3.11.93). HH342/700/01 13.3.97 NOW IN 512429.5N, 024820E [EUR]. (BELGIAN NM 5/69/97). BR STD. SEP 2010/000138707 14.10.10 SHOWN AS SW 15.5MTRS [LAT] IN 5124.443N, 0248.305E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 102 [NE 1.6.10].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 24.434 N,2 48.305 E

 

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