This is the information page about the shipwreck Bremse, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 55.058 N,3 7.425 W (58.917633, -3.123750)

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: BREMSE

Length 140.3 meter, width: 13.4 meter, draught: 5.9, tonnage 4400 ton

Cause: minelaying light cruiser, built 1916 by a.g. vulcan, stettin, with steam turbines of 46,000hp & twin shafts. scuttled in scapa flow. boarded by a british naval party who attempted to beach vessel at troy ness. vessel capsized. after much salvage work, the wreck was refloated and towed to lyness in november 1929, but a gunturret and superstructure left on seabed. (sibi)

Year of registration: 1982

Water depth above wreck: 10 meter

Known since: 1982, last detected: 2007

Details measurements/cartography: H1310/82/33 1.11.82 FOUL IN 585518N, 030630W [OGB]. AREA APPARENTLY USED AS DUMPING GROUND BY SALVORS. A COMPLETE GUN-TURRET & BARBETTE LYING ON ITS SIDE. NEARBY A SMALL METAL COMPARTMENT & A MAST, A WINCH AND OTHER PIECES OF SCRAP METAL, LIE ON SLOPING SEABED IN GEN DEPTH 10MTRS. (B WINFIELD, 25.10.82). INS AS FOUL. BR STD. SEP 2007/000037443 15.5.07 GUN-TURRET HAS BEEN LIFTED AND IS EXHIBITED AT LYNESS MUSEUM. SUPERSTRUCTURE AND MAST REMAIN IN 5855.058N, 0307.425W [WGD]. MOORING CHAINS EXTEND DOWN THE BEACH TO THE WRECKAGE, WHICH LIES ON A STEEP SLOPE, STANDING 2MTRS HIGH AT A MAXIMUM GEN DEPTH 14MTRS. (K HEATH, TELECON 19.4.07) AMEND TO FOUL IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 7.10.10 NOT LOCATED BY M/B. (FATHOMS LTD, POST SDC BATHY REPROCESSING). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: HEIGHT FROM DIVER REPORT

Position: 58 55.058 N,3 7.425 W

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