This is the information page about the shipwreck Belgica, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 46 6.937 N,2 7.082 W (46.424966666667, -2.0163166666667)

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: BELGICA

Length 86 meter, width: 11.5 meter, draught: 5.1, tonnage 2068 ton

Cause: vessel, built 1891 by richardson, duck & co, struck a mine & sank in the bay of biscay. owned at the time of loss by sota y aznar. (dods). sank while on passage from clyde to bordeaux. (ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1919

Water depth above wreck: 52 meter

Known since: 1919, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H1302/19 4.1.19 WK IN 460700N, 020700W. (PARIS NM). BR STD. H2967/22 18.5.22 AMEND TO DW (1918). (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H1009/26 6.5.26 AMEND TO NDW. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 2648. H6018/60 16.1.61 DELETE NDW PA. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). LC 2648. 28.4.75 SHOWN AS NDW PD IN 460654N, 020700W ON FRENCH 6337 [1974 EDN]. NE 2648. 12.12.84 SHOWN AS NDW PD ON FRENCH 6990 [1984 EDN]. 22.3.88 SHOWN AS NDW PD IN 460700N, 020700W [EUR] ON FRENCH 7069 [1986 EDN]. POSN ACCURACY 1M [=PA]. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987, NO.14562048). INS AS NDW PA. NC 2663. 28.11.08 SHOWN AS WK USC 20MTRS ON FRENCH 7211 [4TH EDN 2008, 1:1,000,000]. NCA. SEP 2009000114592 24.8.10 SHOWN AS WK USC PA 20MTRS IN 4606.953N, 0207.138W [WGD] ON FRENCH 6990 [3RD EDN 2009 CORRECT TO NM 33/29/09, 1:350,000]. NE 2663.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 46 6.937 N,2 7.082 W

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