This is the information page about the shipwreck Danevirke, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 13.947 N,4 16.082 W (49.132383333333, -4.3681)

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: DANEVIRKE

Length 73.5 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1431 ton
Load: coal

Cause: torpedoed and sunk by submarine in channel entrance, 10m off ushant. passage the tyne for gibraltar. (ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 83 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK IN THE CHANNEL ENTRANCE, 10M OFF USHANT. (LL WW1). H1690/19 POSN 491400N, 041600W. (PARIS NM). INS AS WK [OLD SYMBOL]. H1291/28 [NO DATE] AMENDED TO NDW. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED) 15.7.76 NOT SHOWN ON FRENCH 5069 [1975 EDN]. 9.1.78 SHOWN AS NDW ON FRENCH 6680 [INT 1708]. 9.3.79 SHOWN AS NDW PD. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED) NE 2644. 10.8.87 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 72MTRS ON FRENCH 6680 [1986 EDN]. BR STD. 20.2.09 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 72MTRS IN 4913.947N, 0416.082W [WGD] ON FRENCH 6680 [INT 1708] [3RD EDN 2003 CORRECT TO NM 42 29 08, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION). NC 2647.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 13.947 N,4 16.082 W

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