This is the information page about the shipwreck Biscaya, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 5.86 N,2 55.35 E (52.247, 3.15)

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: BISCAYA

Length 61.9 meter, width: 9.4 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 494 ton
Load: chemicals

Cause: Sank following a collision with barge intermac 600, which was being towed by french m tug abeille no 30.

Year of registration: 1974

Water depth above wreck: 27 meter

Known since: 1974, last detected: 2022

Details measurements/cartography: 16.12.74 IN COLLISION IN 522400N, 025500E AND SANK IN 520530N, 025900E IN 16 TO 17FMS. (LLOYDS 218). H4830/74 24.12.74 DW FIXED BY DECCA IN POSN 520558N, 025529E [EUR]. TEMPORARILY MARKED BY SMALL RED BUOY WITH RAREFL. (NETHERLANDS HYDRO, 16.12.74 & NETHERLANDS NM 3801(P)/74).

- NM 75(T)/75. H4830/74 13.2.75 DW, WITH GREEN CONL BUOY, GPFL(3)G.15S, RAREFL & E TOPMARK, LAID CLOSE E, IN 520558N, 025529E. (NETHERLANDS NM 102/75). ACTION NOT NOTED. H4830/74 30.4.75 NOW WK 29MTRS. BUOY DELETED. (NETHERLANDS NM 1065 & 1207/75). AMEND TO WK 16FMS. DELETE BUOY.

- NM 948/75. H2356/76 31.3.76 SHOWN ON NETHERLANDS MICROFILMED DATA, DTD 20.1.76, AS WK 29MTRS IN 520555N, 025527E. H3069/86 23.10.87 NOW WK 30MTRS. (NETHERLANDS NM 486/87). BR STD. HH340/530/07 25.9.03 NOW WK 28.5MTRS IN 5205.87N, 0255.36E [WGD]. (NETHERLANDS NM 37/492/03).

- NM 4975/03. SEP 2010/000094380 9.6.10 NOW WK 28MTRS IN 5205.86N, 0255.35E [WGD]. (NETHERLANDS NM 22/295/10).

- NM 3301/10. 19.11.14 SHOWN AS WK 27.5MTRS ON BA 1630 [EDN 6 DTD 13.6.13].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 5.86 N,2 55.35 E

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