This is the information page about the shipwreck Blucher, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 59 42.039 N,10 35.776 E (59.87985, 10.538883333333)

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: BLUCHER

Length 195.1 meter, width: 21.3 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 13900 ton

Cause: vessel, built 1937 by deutche werke, keil. part of the naval force transporting the german troops invading norway. sunk by torpedoes discharged from a fixed battery built into the cliffs of the island of oscarsborg while trying to force the narrows in the approaches to oslo. sank with great loss of life. (dods).

Year of registration: 1972

Water depth above wreck: 82 meter, Height above seabed: 160 cm

Known since: 1972, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: 25.4.72 LIES IN POSN 8C DUE S OF STOREGRUNNEN LT, IN 594142N, 103536E APPROX. (VICKERS OCEANICS TELECON & TELEX FROM NORWEGIAN NAVY). 28.4.72 POSN NOW 594148N, 103518E APPROX. (VICKERS OCEANICS TELECON). 29.1.73 NDW SHOWN IN 594204N, 103552E, IN GEN DEPTH 82MTRS, ON NORWEGIAN 402 [1972 EDN]. 21.1.80 NDW SHOWN IN 594204N, 103552E ON NC 3154 [DROBAK]. 21.1.87 WK LIES ON PORT SIDE ON HEADING 340DEG, WITH BOW IN GEN DEPTH 73MTRS AND STERN IN 93MTRS. A SCOUR HAS FORMED NEAR THE BOW. (SEA TECHNOLOGY, OCT'86, P.32). HH308/001/89 19.12.89 DIVING OPS TO EXAMINE WK TOOK PLACE BETWEEN 15.11 & 15.12.89. (NORWEGIAN NM 1697(T)/89). 28.7.93 WK NOW LEAKING OIL. OPERATIONS IN HAND TO REMOVE ALL OIL REMAINING ONBOARD USING A REMOTE CONTROLLED VEHICLE. (ITV, NEWS AT TEN DTD 27.7.93). 19.5.05 NDW SHOWN IN 5942.054N, 1035.867E [EUR] ON NORWEGIAN 402 [MAY'04 EDN, ADOPTION). NC 3563.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: SCOUR AT BOW

Position: 59 42.039 N,10 35.776 E

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