Wreck: Brabant (Merchant vessel)

This is the information page about the shipwreck Brabant, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 54.426 N,4 40.562 W (50.822183333333, -4.5627833333333)


 

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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง, 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.

 

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Shipwreck details

Name: BRABANT

Length 45.1 meter, width: 7.6 meter, draught: 2.7, tonnage 345 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1927 by gebr pot, bolnes. owned at time of loss by v motoschip brabant. 4 clyinder oil engine, single shaft. passage hayle for port talbot. bombed by german aircraft. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1942

Water depth above wreck: 36 meter, Height above seabed: 70 cm

Known since: 1942, last detected: 2010

Details measurements/cartography: H067/42 14.6.42 SUNK APPROX 220DEGS, 10M FROM HARTLAND POINT. (NO/C APPLEDORE). 25.1.73 NOW CHARTED AS USC PA 18MTRS IN 505330N, 044130W [OGB]. HH220/440/03 6.3.97 LOCATED IN 505426N, 044032.5W [OGB] IN 40MTRS. (G J POUND, 5.3.97). CHART AS USC 30MTRS

- NM 1534/97. 16.8.11 LOCATED 3.4.10 IN 5054.426N, 0440.562W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 33.28 IN GEN DEPTH 36.1MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 45MTRS, WIDTH 12.2MTRS, HT 2.8MTRS. LIES 070/250 DEGS WITH BOWS ENE. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1157). AMEND WK 33MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 50 54.426 N,4 40.562 W

 

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