This is the information page about the shipwreck Barbro (possibly)(or hovde), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 56.84 N,4 7.473 W (48.915666666667, -4.3681666666667)

 

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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. Aboukir bay
2. Adieu-va
3. Alcide
4. Alit
5. Alppi
6. Argonaut
7. Argonaut (possibly)
8. Barbro (possibly)(or hovde)
9. Batavia
10. Bellamy
11. Bjerko
12. Castro
13. Christina coast
14. Cornelis b
15. Crane barge
16. Danevirke
17. Dunkerquois
18. Fremona
19. Germania
20. Holly branch
21. Hovde (possibly) or barbro
22. Kristina coast
23. Lagardere
24. Manchuria
25. Moroe (or horde)
26. No. 487
27. Nymphe de granville
28. Oswald
29. Strathtay
30. T-27
31. Tanio (bow only)
32. Therese et marie
33. Welsh princess
34. Wilfried
35. Zelza
36. Zh 1

 

Name: BARBRO (POSSIBLY)(OR HOVDE)

Length 87.5 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 6.1, tonnage 2356 ton
Load: coal

Cause: vessel, built 1891 by e withy & co, was torpedoed & sunk by a german submarine. owned at time of loss by dmpsk. akties. segelfoss. (dods). sank 14m nnw of ile de batz, whilst on passage weymouth for barrow. (ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 87 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: M014030 1917 'BARBRO' IN 485700N, 041000W. (WK CHART VI). H1690/19 16.7.19 NDW IN 485700N, 041000W. (PARIS NM). NE 2644. H3449/74 29.7.74 SHOWN AS WK 78.2MTRS IN 485654N, 040723W [EUR] ON FRENCH SURVEY [K6847/12]. BR STD. 26.8.77 LEAST DEPTH 77MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 87MTRS BY E/S. (FRENCH WK RECORDS DTD 18.10.76). 2.1.79 SHOWN AS NDW (77) ON FRENCH 6680 [INT 1708]. 10.7.96 SHOWN AS WK 77MTRS ON FRENCH 7151 [1995 EDN, LARGEST SCALE]. BR STD. 26.2.09 SHOWN IN 4856.840N, 0407.473W [WGD] ON FRENCH 6680 [3RD EDN 2003, CORRECT TO NM 42 29 08, 1:150,000, 2ND SCALE ADOPTION]. NC 2647.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 48 56.84 N,4 7.473 W

 

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