This is the information page about the shipwreck Bourrasque, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 14.95 N,2 33.021 E (51.1325, 2.5103667)

 

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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. A-15 (possibly)
2. Apache
3. Auretta
4. Bourrasque
5. Bowsprite (bow section)
6. Bramden (possibly)
7. Bruno heinemann (z.8)
8. Clan macalister
9. Clan macneil (possibly)
10. Cmb 1
11. Cmb 71a
12. Dawdon
13. Dortmund
14. Douaisien (possibly)
15. Emeraude
16. Empire path
17. Etendard
18. Fennella
19. Fl5
20. Floride (probably)
21. Foudroyant
22. G 96
23. Ganko
24. Garden city
25. Hms basilisk
26. Hms colsay
27. Hms gracie fields
28. Hms grafton
29. Hms grafton
30. Hms grenade
31. Hms keith
32. Hms king orry
33. Hms skipjack
34. Hms st abbs
35. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
36. Hms wakeful
37. Hms waverley
38. Hms whitley
39. Horst
40. Jaguar
41. John mahn
42. Kestrel
43. Keulse vaart iv
44. Kilmore
45. L'urtiga (possibly)
46. Laura
47. Lct(r) 457
48. Le copain d'abord
49. Lorina
50. Lorina (possibly)
51. Lst 420 (stern section)
52. M 3610
53. Mariner (possibly)
54. Mona's queen
55. P 319
56. Peppinella
57. Putten
58. Queen of the channel (possibly)
59. Quo vadis
60. R.93 (possibly)
61. Rita
62. Robert l vann
63. S 168
64. Sabrina
65. Saint camille
66. Senator holthusen
67. Sigurds faulbaums
68. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
69. St fagan
70. Sterre der zee
71. Toquet
72. Torpilleur branlebas
73. Trifels
74. Tringa
75. Ub29
76. Uc 1
77. V 201 (possibly)
78. Vlaanderen (probably)
79. West-hinder
80. Wielingen ii (possibly)
81. Wielingen ltv
82. Wolf
83. Zeester

 

Name: BOURRASQUE

Length 105.8 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1458 ton

Cause: Built in 1925 by chantiers de france, dunkirk. turbine engines of 33000 ihp for 33 knots. four 5.1 inch, two 37mm guns, 6 torpedo tubes. mined. during dunkirk evacuation. 56 men lost. (dods).

Year of registration: 1965

Water depth above wreck: 18 meter

Known since: 1965, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H2873/63 6.12.65 WK 12MTRS IN 511500N, 023309E [EUR]. (OSTENDE NM 156/65). INS AS WK 6FMS 3FT.

- NM 2245/65. 23.4.74 SHOWN AS DW ON NETH 1035. NCA. 15.2.85 LEAST E/S DEPTH 12.4 IN GEN DEPTH 18MTRS IN 511500N, 023308E [EUR]. (FR WK RECORD 2162215). H1310/85/8 15.2.85 DIVED ON 28.7.84. VERY BROKEN UP AND NOT EASY TO IDENTIFY. DURING A SECOND DIVE DURING NOVEMBER SOME FRENCH AMMUNITION WAS FOUND AND SO THIS WK IS THOUGHT PROBABLY TO BE THE FRENCH DESTROYER BOURRASQUE. IT IS APPARENTLY LYING UPSIDE DOWN AND IS ALMOST COMPLETELY BURIED IN A SANDBANK. (J COULON, 25.1.85). H1310/88/18 8.8.88 CONFIRMED AS WK OF BOURRASQUE - 130MM SHELL CASES AND VARIOUS OTHER FRENCH ITEMS FOUND. (J COULON, 15.3.88). HH342/350/01 14.3.89 NOW SW 13.2MTRS IN 511500N, 023306E [EUR]. (OSTEND NM 60/89). BR STD. SEP 2010/000138707 18.10.10 SHOWN AS SW 13.1MTRS [LAT] IN 5114.950N, 0233.021E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 102 [NE 1.6.10, 1:60,000].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INVERTED, WELL BROKEN UP, BURIED IN SANDBANK

Position: 51 14.95 N,2 33.021 E

 

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