This is the information page about the shipwreck Briseis, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 29.267 N,2 37.55 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. Adamantious lemos (possibly)
2. Agenoria
3. Ambassadrice
4. Antoinette
5. Auguste and louise
6. Beauport
7. Belfort
8. Bess mitchell
9. Bizon (possibly)
10. Bizon (probably)
11. Brighton
12. Briseis
13. Buzuzlo (ex weston)
14. Capri
15. Captain niko
16. Channel queen
17. Charles
18. Cid
19. Clarrie
20. Constantia s (fwd part)
21. Corail
22. Dagenham
23. Dambuster
24. Dr rudolf wahrendorff
25. Dromore
26. Dunsinane
27. Ella
28. Evasion
29. Fermain
30. Figaro
31. Ford power
32. Foreland
33. Forth
34. Goureux
35. Grandest
36. Guyona
37. Helge (possibly)
38. Helge (possibly)
39. Hms dragon
40. Hopper
41. Ida (ex abbey town)
42. Jeanne marie
43. Jesmond
44. Josef joham (stern half) (probably)
45. Juene marie
46. Jules
47. Kondor (probably)
48. La havre
49. La salle
50. Le poilu
51. Mako
52. Mary toovey
53. Mon ami
54. Ocean queen
55. Oost vlaanderen
56. Prosperity (stern section)
57. Rabbi
58. Raffio
59. Rhona (probably)
60. Rontegui
61. Saint louis
62. San nicolau
63. Santez-anna
64. Seydlitz (possibly)
65. St louie
66. St malo (possibly)
67. Stella (probably)
68. To venner
69. Uc 18
70. Ullyses
71. Vedanta
72. Victorine
73. Ville de malaga
74. Waverley
75. Wear
76. Western belle
77. Yorouba

 

Name: BRISEIS

Length 97.8 meter, width: 14 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 2964 ton
Load: wine

Cause: ex- genua. renamed in 1920 built in 1909 by neptune werft a g, rostock. owned at time of loss by campagnie auxillaire de navigations. triple expansion engine of 213nhp, single shaft. passage oban for rouen. passage oban for rouen. struck the grunes reef, took water and sank.

Year of registration: 1937

Water depth above wreck: 14 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1937, last detected: 1979

Details measurements/cartography: H6735/37 13.10.37 DW IN 492930N, 023730W. (STATE SUPERVISOR, GUERNSEY).

- NM 1929/37. H3635/71 11.6.71 [EUR] POSN: 492930N, 023724W. NC 807. H1720/60 8.2.72 EXAM'D IN 492920N, 023728W [EUR] USING HSA. LEAST E/S DEPTH 10.1MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 14.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. SEABED ROCK. DIVERS REPORT WRECK IS REDUCED TO JUMBLE OF PLATES ON BOTTOM, BUT STERN, A BOILER & BOW SECTION STAND PROUD ABOUT 6, 12 & 15FT HIGH RESPECTIVELY. THIS AGREES WITH E/S DEPTH. BOW SECTION HARD AGAINST OUTCROP OF ROCK, WHICH RISES TO THE SAME DEPTH. (HMS WATERWITCH, 21.1.72). NC 807. H3635/71 3.9.79 2 INTACT BOILERS REMAIN, SIDE BY SIDE. BOW SECTION IS INTACT LYING ON PORT SIDE NEAR SW EXTREMITY OF WRECKAGE. THERE ARE NO ROCK OUTCROPS IN VICINITY. STERN NOW WELL SUNK INTO GRAVEL/ROCK SEABED. LIES HEADING SW, ROUGHLY PARALLEL TO THE COAST. (M G SHEAN, SEVERNSIDE BSAC, 6.8.79). NCA. [WGD] POSN: 4929.267N, 0237.550W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP. BOILERS & BOW SECTION REMAIN INTACT

Position: 49 29.267 N,2 37.55 W

 

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