This is the information page about the shipwreck Bizon (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 24.046 N,2 27.629 W (49.465666666667, -2.6346666666667)

 

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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. Agenoria
2. Agrion
3. Ambassadrice
4. Amiable lucitte
5. Antoinette
6. Arnold maersk
7. Auguste and louise
8. Beauport
9. Belfort
10. Bess mitchell
11. Bizon (possibly)
12. Bizon (probably)
13. Brighton
14. Briseis
15. Buzuzlo (ex weston)
16. Capri
17. Captain niko
18. Carrouest one (possibly)
19. Carrouest one (possibly)
20. Channel queen
21. Charles
22. Clarrie
23. Corail
24. Cornelia
25. Courier
26. Dagenham
27. Dambuster
28. Dora
29. Dr rudolf wahrendorff
30. Dromore
31. Dunsinane
32. Echo
33. Ella
34. Evasion
35. Fermain
36. Figaro
37. Flamer
38. Ford power
39. Foreland
40. Forth
41. Goureux
42. Grandest
43. Gulnare
44. Guyona
45. Helge (possibly)
46. Heron
47. Hms determinee (ex la determinee)
48. Hopper
49. Ida (ex abbey town)
50. Jeanne marie
51. Jesmond
52. Josef joham (stern half) (probably)
53. Joseph and margaret
54. Juene marie
55. Jules
56. Kathleen
57. Kromwyk
58. La havre
59. La josephine
60. La salle
61. Le poilu
62. Le squale
63. Leastilien
64. Louise
65. M 483
66. Mako
67. Marie galante
68. Mary toovey
69. Matelda
70. Ocean queen
71. Oost vlaanderen
72. Orphee
73. Petite anna
74. Point law
75. Prima
76. Prosperity (stern section)
77. Raffio
78. Rontegui
79. Rossgull
80. Saint louis
81. San nicolau
82. Schelde
83. Schokland
84. Seydlitz (possibly)
85. Silvonia
86. St louie
87. St malo (possibly)
88. Susan k
89. Swift
90. To venner
91. Tyne
92. Uc 18
93. Ullyses
94. Uss pt 509
95. Vedanta
96. Venus
97. Victorine
98. Voorwaarts
99. Waverley
100. Wear
101. Western belle
102. Yorouba

 

Name: BIZON (POSSIBLY)

Length 57.9 meter, draught: 3, tonnage 783 ton

Cause: part of german convoy en-route to st peter port. sunk during attack by four british mtb. (d kreckeler).

Year of registration: 1973

Water depth above wreck: 46 meter, Height above seabed: 135 cm

Known since: 1973

Details measurements/cartography: 18.4.75 EXAM'D 11.7.73 IN 492406N, 022733W [EUR] USING DECCA. LEAST E/S DEPTH 42.0 IN GEN DEPTH 46-47MTRS. SCOUR 1.5MTRS. SEABED FINE SAND. ABOUT 60MTRS LONG, LYING NW/SE. (SCES, HI 63/74). CHART AS WK 42MTRS. BR STD. MAY BE THE 'DROMORE', 268G TONS, SUNK 18.5.1917. 13.2.80 SHOWN AS WK PA 49MTRS ON FRENCH 878 [DEC 1979 EDN]. NCA. H1285/76/183 7.9.76 'BIZON' REPD IN 492200N, 022900W [EUR]. (T A TITTERINGTON, 17.5.76). NCA. H1310/83/19 18.4.83 GERMAN REPORTS GIVE SINKING POSN AS BF3574, NW CORNER. ON GERMAN GRID SYSTEM THIS APPROXIMATES TO POSN OF THIS WK. (D KRECKELER). NCA. SEE ALSO [23458]. [WGD] POSN: 4924.046N, 0227.629W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 24.046 N,2 27.629 W

 

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