This is the information page about the shipwreck Capbreton, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 45 22.03 N,1 19.843 W (45.5484, -1.0411333333333)

 

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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. Antietam (part of)
2. Antietam (part of)
3. Azuero
4. Beautemps beaupre
5. Bordeaux
6. Capbreton
7. Cyclone
8. Fanack
9. Flandre (aft section)
10. Flandre (fwd section)
11. Galatee
12. Gretaston
13. Hafnia
14. Hollywood
15. La brestoise
16. Le vent (possibly)
17. Les trois freres
18. Marquis de mudela
19. Neftegorsk
20. Noviembre
21. Quebec
22. Rhin (possibly)
23. Sainte helene (possibly)
24. Sperrbrecher 5
25. Sperrbrecher 6
26. T 24 (fwd part)
27. T'chel arnou
28. Tarragona
29. Toutou
30. Vendee
31. Vent
32. Ville de royan
33. Z-24

 

Name: CAPBRETON

Length 75.6 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1464 ton

Cause: vessel, built 1912 by smiths dock co. owned at the time of loss by cie des chargeurs francais. torpedoed & sunk by a german submarine in the bay of biscay. (dods). sunk while on passage from bayonne to england. (ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1919

Water depth above wreck: 31 meter

Known since: 1919, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H1302/19 4.1.19 WK IN 452200N, 012000W. (PARIS NM). BR STD. H2968/22 AMEND SYMBOL TO DW. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H8479/33 10.1.34 NOT SHOWN ON FRENCH CHART. DELETE.

- NM 115/34. H3272/53 18.1.54 SHOWN AS NDW PD IN 452206N, 011945W ON FRENCH 4872. NC 2664. 23.5.80 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 20MTRS [11FMS] ON FRENCH 6336. NE 2664. 9.4.85 LISTED IN FRENCH WK RECORDS 1984, NO.14551127. 28.5.86 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 18MTRS ON FRENCH 7070 [1985 EDN]. NC 2664. 24.5.89 SHOWN AS WK USC 20MTRS ON FRENCH 7211. WK USC PA 20MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987). AMEND TO WK USC PA 20MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2009000062843 13.8.09 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 20MTRS IN 4522.050N, 0119.839W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7070 [INT 1804] [2ND EDN 2009, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE]. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 45 22.03 N,1 19.843 W

 

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