This is the information page about the shipwreck Cambrai, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 7.424 N,0 2.861 W (54.1237333, -0.0476833)

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: CAMBRAI

Length 66.8 meter, width: 9.1 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 963 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Ex-louise. built in 1875 by schlessinger davis & co, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by cie. des bateaux a vapeur du nord. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 139hp, single shaft. machinery by t clark & co, newcastle-upon-tyne. passage rouen for sunderland. in ballast. torpedoed and sunk by german submarine. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 28 meter, Height above seabed: 10 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2011

Details measurements/cartography: H4548/18 9.8.18 2M E OF FLAMBOROUGH. (BOT). 18.8.18 POSN 540730N, 000125W. (?BOT). H4548/18 27.8.18 POSN 540820N, 000250W SEARCHED BUT NOTHING FOUND. (VAEC). H3752/26 11.6.26 INS AS NDW PA (1918) IN 540730N, 000125W. BR STD. 21.6.72 AMEND TO USCPA 28.0MTRS. NC 129. H2534/74 5.12.79 TWO BAD OBSTNS (WKS) REPD IN POSNS 540705N, 000133W AND 540725N, 000140W. POSN BY DECCA. (KINGFISHER BOOK OF TOWS VOL 1). H4069/72 5.3.80 EXAM'D 13.11.79 IN 540724.9N, 000244.5W [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 25.3 IN GEN DEPTH 28.0MTRS. HEIGHT BY SHADOW 5.8MTRS, VERTICAL HEIGHT 6.2 MTRS. LENGTH 66MTRS, BEAM 11 MTRS. LYING N/S. WELL BROKEN UP. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 47/79). INS AS WK 21.5MTRS.

- NM 663/80. HH090/730/01 19.12.97 NOT SURVEYED AS LIES WITHIN FISHING AREA EXCLUSION ZONE. (GARDLINE, HI 730). NCA. HH100/351/19 19.9.02 DIVED IN LISTED POSN. IDENTIFIED AS 'CAMBRAI' BY LARGE CAST FILLER WITH MAKER'S NAME AND BY ENGINE PLATE. (S OLD & B JOLLEY, EMAIL DTD 18.9.02). NCA. SEP 2011/000131153 2.8.11 LOCATED IN 5407.424N, 0002.861W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 23.36MTRS. (NETSURVEY, HN DTD 12.7.11 FOR HI 1358). AMEND WK 23MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 12.10.11 LENGTH 38MTRS, WIDTH 16MTRS, HT 4MTRS. LIES 000/180 DEGS. (NETSURVEY, HI 1358). BROKEN UP WITH PROBABLE DEBRIS TO THE NORTH. NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN UP WITH DEBRIS CLOSE N

Position: 54 7.424 N,0 2.861 W

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