This is the information page about the shipwreck Bamse (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 58.758 N,5 4.497 W (49.967, -5.1835166666667)

 

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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. Adams (possibly)
2. Adolf vinnen
3. Alexander kennedy
4. Andola
5. Andromeda
6. Arab
7. Ardgarry
8. Arvor
9. Asaba (possibly)(part of)
10. Asaba (possibly)(part of)
11. Atlantis (possibly)
12. Atlantis (possibly)
13. Ballarat
14. Bamse (probably)
15. Bay of panama
16. Beatrice (possibly)
17. Bellucia
18. Ben asdale
19. Ben rein
20. Benito
21. Bjornvik (possibly)
22. Brest
23. Bretonne (probably)
24. Cape finisterre (probably)
25. Carmarthen
26. Caroline
27. Caroni river
28. Caroni river (part of)(probably)
29. Centurion (possibly)
30. Cieszyn
31. Citrine
32. City of corinth (possibly)
33. City of ghent
34. Clan apline
35. Clan malcolm
36. Corvus
37. Cromdale
38. Cyrenian
39. Czar
40. Dionne marie
41. Dispatch (possibly)
42. Elisabeth (possibly)
43. Epsilon
44. Erato
45. Eric calvert (possibly)
46. Eskdale
47. Eva (possibly)
48. Forde
49. Friday (vrijdag) possibly
50. Ganymede
51. Gap
52. Godolphin
53. Grip (part of)
54. Gunvor
55. Hansy
56. Happy returns (possibly)
57. Hera
58. Hmml 380
59. Hms almond (after part)
60. Hms almond (bow part)
61. Hms anson
62. Hms brandlebas
63. Hms comet
64. Hms gloaming
65. Hms javelin (stern section)
66. Hms kurd
67. Hms lady of the isles
68. Hms primrose
69. Hms rinovia
70. Hms roche bonne
71. Hms torrent
72. Hmy sappho (possibly)
73. Hnlms brielle
74. Hockwold
75. Ilston
76. Jersey queen (possibly)
77. John
78. Jolie mouette
79. Julie anne ii (part of)(possibly)
80. Juno
81. Karen marie
82. Kerris reed
83. King harry (probably)
84. Kremsertor
85. Krosfond
86. Kwester
87. La suippe
88. Lady cory-wright
89. Lady dalhousie
90. Le vieux tigre
91. Leander
92. Leon martin (part of)
93. Libourne
94. Loe bar wk
95. Lord snowden (probably)
96. Lorle (probably)
97. Lucent (possibly)
98. Lydie
99. Merle
100. Mervyn (possibly)
101. Mina cantiquin
102. Mitera marigo
103. Mohegan
104. Mosel
105. Mountby
106. Mourne (probably)
107. N g petersen
108. Normand
109. Nyassa
110. Ocklinge
111. Omer denise
112. Ospra
113. Pearl (possibly)
114. Penelope jane (possibly)
115. Pindos
116. Plantaganet
117. Poljames
118. Poljames
119. Ponus
120. Port chalmers
121. Queen (possibly)
122. Rigmor (possibly)
123. Robert
124. Rock island bridge
125. Royal anne galley
126. Santo christo de castello (possibly)
127. Schiedam
128. Secil japan (bow section)
129. Secil japan (stern section)
130. Shoal fisher
131. Spital
132. Spyridion vagliano
133. St anthony (possibly)
134. Stanwood
135. Twilight water
136. U 1018
137. U 399
138. U 95
139. Ub 106 (possibly)
140. Ub 112 (possibly)
141. Ub 113
142. Ub 128 (possibly)
143. Ub 86 (possibly)
144. Ub 97 (possibly)
145. Uc 66
146. Ula
147. Veritas
148. Ville de thann (bow section)(possibly)
149. Ville de thann (stern section)(possibly)
150. Violet
151. Volnay
152. War tune
153. Westwood (possibly)
154. Wyndcliffe
155. Zebra

 

Name: BAMSE (PROBABLY)

Length 68.9 meter, width: 9.8 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1001 ton
Load: flammable liquids and gases

Cause: ex-thomas coates. built in 1881 by the strand slipway co, sunderland. managed at time of loss by blow richards & co for the british shipping controller. two boilers, coumpound expansion engine of 125hp, single shaft. passage swansea for dunkirk. cargo patent fuel. torpedoed by ub-112. 11 lives lost.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 71 meter, Height above seabed: 135 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK IN 495845N, 050424W OR 1.75M ESE FROM LIZARD. (WW1SL). SUNK 3M OFF BLACK HEAD. (LL WW1). 5.5.60 SONAR CONTACT IN 495842N, 050424W. (AUBD 301/67). H7312/68 11.6.74 WK LOCATED DURING CABLE SURVEY IN 495849N, 050437W [OGB] USING DECCA. STANDS 11MTRS HIGH. LENGTH 130MTRS, LYING 135/315DEGS. APPARENTLY BROKEN UP. (GPO SURVEY [K6802/2]). CHART AS WK 35.0MTRS. BR STD. HH100/351/12 27.3.97 WK DIVED IN GEN DEPTH 70MTRS. SHE LIES IN 2 PARTS THE BOW BEING 100YDS SOUTH. (G J POUND, 5.3.97). NCA. HH100/351/18 & HH232/420/05 19.8.02 DIVED 15.8.02. BOW IN 4958.774N, 0504.495W; STERN IN 4958.755N, 0504.486W [WGD] USING DGPS. DISTANCE BETWEEN 2 SECTIONS IS 23MTRS, DIRECTION OF STERN TO BOW 28DEGS. ORIENTATION 135/315DEGS. HIGHEST POINT IS STERN, STANDING 11MTRS HIGH. DIFFICULT TO DISCERN DETAIL. GEN DEPTH OF SEABED AT LW 74MTRS. SEABED SHALE/FINE SAND. BRASS SHELL CASES NEAR STERN GUN & IRON TELEGRAPH. (J ROSEVEARE, TELECON 19.8.02 & 20.8.02). AMEND TO WK 60MTRS IN 4958.765N, 0504.491W.

- NM 4562/02. SEP 2014/000153151 22.9.14 EXAM'D 21.7.14 IN 4958.758N, 0504.497W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 62.82 IN GEN DEPTH 71MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 55MTRS, WIDTH 11MTRS, HT 8.18MTRS. LIES 072/252 DEGS. STONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. IN TWO PARTS, THE SMALLER LIES 90MTR SW. MAIN SECTION APPARENTLY UPRIGHT.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, SECTION LIES SW

Position: 49 58.758 N,5 4.497 W

 

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