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, 2.5103667)

 

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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-15 (possibly)
3. Apache
4. Ardmount
5. Auretta
6. Birkenfels
7. Bourrasque
8. Bowsprite (bow section)
9. Callisto
10. Cmb 1
11. Cmb 71a
12. Dawdon
13. Dortmund
14. Emeraude
15. Empire path
16. Fl5
17. G 96
18. Harpalyce
19. Heinkel 111
20. Hm motor launch 561
21. Hms basilisk
22. Hms brilliant
23. Hms colsay
24. Hms gracie fields
25. Hms grafton
26. Hms grafton
27. Hms plumpton (probably)
28. Hms sirius
29. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
30. Hms wakeful
31. Hms waverley
32. Hms whitley
33. Jeannine andre
34. John mahn
35. Keulse vaart iv
36. Kilmore
37. Lct(r) 457
38. Lst 420 (stern section)
39. Lst 80
40. M 3610
41. Marie
42. Maurice
43. Mont louis
44. Nashaba
45. Nautica ena
46. Neutron
47. Neutron
48. Nippon
49. Normandie
50. P 319
51. Putten
52. Queen of the channel (possibly)
53. Quo vadis
54. Ra.2 (possibly)
55. Rijnstroom
56. Rita
57. Robert l vann
58. S 168
59. Sabrina
60. Sampa
61. Samsip
62. Samvern (w part)
63. Senator holthusen
64. Sigurds faulbaums
65. Slera ventana
66. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
67. Torpilleur branlebas
68. U 11
69. Ub 13
70. Ub 29
71. Ub29
72. Vlaanderen (probably)
73. Wolf
74. 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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