This is the information page about the shipwreck Cressy/hoque/aboukir, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 15.205 N,3 40.817 E (52.5563333, 3.7231667)

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: Cressy/Hoque/Aboukir

Length 134.1 meter, width: 21.3 meter, draught: 8.5, tonnage 12000 ton

Cause: Torpedoed and sunk by german submarine u 9 while attempting to rescue survivors from hm ships aboukir and hogue, which had previously been sunk.

Year of registration: 1914

Water depth above wreck: 20 meter

Known since: 1914, last detected: 2022

Details measurements/cartography: H4771/14 SUNK WITHIN 0.5M OF 521620N, 034030E. AREA WITHIN 2M DEEMED DANGEROUS. (FNM 50/14). H7741/26 3.12.26 AMEND TO DWPA (1914). (ACTION NOT NOTED). 19.11.56 SALVAGE OPS IN PROGRESS. BUOYS LAID. (NETH NM 3485(T)/56). H2728/54 6.11.59 AMEND TO NDW IN 521516N, 034114E. (AUTHORITY NOT KNOWN).

- NM 2673/59. 29.5.61 SALVAGE OPS. (NETH NM 1516(T)/61). 4.12.61 SALVAGE OPS SUSPENDED. (NETH NM 3981/61). 7.12.72 SHOWN AS NDW IN 521516N, 034118E [EUR] ON NETHS FISHERIES 1955, RECD 7.11.72 8.5.78 SHOWN AS WK 22.5MTRS ON NETH 1350 [MARCH 1978 EDN]. AMEND TO WK 12FMS 2FT. BR STD. 16.3.87 NOW WK 25.6MTRS IN 521513.6N, 034056.3E [EUR]. (NETH SURVEY BY MS TYDEMAN - MAR 1985, K9975/4). AMEND TO WK 14FMS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. H1271/85 28.4.87 STILL SHOWN AS WK 22.5MTRS ON NETH 1350 ['86 EDN]. 8.3.89 DEPTHS NOW ACCEPTED - PART OF SYSTEMATIC SURVEY, SANDETTIE TO EUROPORT. NETH WK RECORD NO.P15-2074 GIVES POSN AS 521515N, 034055E. NCA YET. 27.2.92 AMEND TO WK 22.5MTRS. NE 2322. 27.2.92 SHOWN AS WK 22.5MTRS ON NETH 2322 [1991]. LEAST DEPTH 22.8MTRS. (NETH WK NO. P15-2074 [1992]). HH100/351/07 9.8.93 WK OF HMS CRESSY IS IN 521515N, 034055E. (DIVER MAGAZINE ARTICLE). HH340/530/05 25.2.00 NOW WK 23MTRS IN 5215.25N, 0340.90E [EUR]. (NETH NM 8/112/00).

- NM 1322/00. 22.7.13 [WGD] POSN: 5215.205N, 0340.817E. 5.4.17 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, DEFENCE NO 147/2017. COMING INTO FORCE 3.3.17. AMEND "HISTORIC".
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 15.205 N,3 40.817 E

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