This is the information page about the shipwreck Dotterel, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 48.076 N,1 33.452 E (51.089833333333, 1.7715833333333)

 

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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. Acer
2. Acer
3. Advent
4. Aiglon
5. Alhama
6. Amandine
7. Amplegarth
8. Angelus (possibly)
9. Argo
10. Atlantic (possibly)
11. Belford
12. Blanc nez
13. Brandenburg
14. Ca 4
15. Cachalot
16. Cap de la hague
17. Colbert
18. Colbert (possibly)
19. Corhaven
20. Costas michalos (aft section)
21. Costas michalos (fwd part)
22. D'artagnan
23. Dartmore
24. Dixie
25. Dotterel
26. Efford
27. Elizabeth and unknown
28. Empress of fort william (probably)
29. En avant
30. Eustratios (probably)
31. Evolution
32. Express
33. Flachsee
34. Gladys
35. Gloire a sainte therese
36. Halcyon
37. Harmatris
38. Hippocampe (?hypocampe)
39. Hmhs anglia
40. Hms brazen
41. Hms carlton
42. Hms drumtochty (possibly)
43. Hms falmouth iii (possibly)
44. Hms glen boyne
45. Hms hermes
46. Hms lord grey
47. Hms peridot
48. Hms torbay ii (probably)
49. Hms wessex
50. Iltis (possibly)
51. Ines
52. Jupiter (probably)
53. Jupiter tr 1 (possibly)
54. Kadru
55. Kirsten skou
56. L'intrepide
57. La fleche
58. Lady stella
59. Latona
60. Le tregor
61. Leicester
62. Leo
63. Loic
64. Lorraine
65. Lusitania
66. Maloja 1
67. Marie-ange loic
68. Mariner moon
69. Mercator
70. Merida
71. Moise
72. Moorside (probably)
73. Munificent
74. Nicolaw
75. Niendorf (possibly)
76. Niki
77. Notre dame des trois epis
78. Ophelie
79. Ousel (probably)
80. Pallieter
81. Petit antoine
82. Phoenix
83. Polgrange
84. Pulborough
85. Rhea
86. Rio parana
87. Rochester castle (possibly)
88. S.folkestone gate (ltv no.75)
89. Sabac
90. Saint benoit labre
91. Sainte marie de la mer
92. Smarapaan
93. Sperrbrecher 171 (possibly)
94. St claire (possibly)
95. Strathclyde
96. Sultana
97. Tbd 317
98. Teeswood
99. Texaco caribbean (after section)
100. Texaco caribbean (forward section)
101. Traquair (probably)
102. Tusnastabb (possibly)
103. U 11 (possibly)
104. U 8
105. U 93 (probably)
106. Ub 103 (possibly)
107. Ub 108 (possibly)
108. Ub 38
109. Ub 55 (probably)
110. Ub 56 (possibly)
111. Ub 78
112. Ub-33 (probably)
113. Uc 26
114. Uc 63
115. Uc 77 (possibly)
116. Uc 78 or uc 79
117. Vent arriere
118. Virgo sancta
119. W a scholten
120. Will and maggie (probably)
121. Xanthence

 

Name: DOTTEREL

Length 82.3 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 6.1, tonnage 1596 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: vessel, built in 1904 by swan, hunter & wigham richardson and owned at the time of loss by cork steamship co., struck a mine and sank 4.75m n by e of boulogne pier whilst en route from manchester to dunkirk. five lives lost, captain survived. (ll ww1 & dods).

Year of registration: 1915

Water depth above wreck: 16 meter

Known since: 1915, last detected: 2006

Details measurements/cartography: SANK 4.75M N BY E FROM BOULOGNE PIER. (BMVS). H1755/16 POSN 504805N, 013332E WITH BUOY CLOSE E. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). - FNM 153/16. H5296/18 BUOY DRIFTED TO EASTWARD. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H7386/18 10.12.18 WK IN 504818N, 013342E. DANGEROUS TO NAVIGATION. (FRENCH LIST OF WRECKS) H6391/19 POSN 504850N, 013850E. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H7386/18 5.2.19 CHART AS WRECK [OLD SYMBOL] IN 504805N, 013332E WITH WRECK BUOY CLOSE E. BR STD. H7143/19 27.9.19 WK 2.75FMS IN 504812N. 013342E. (PARIS NM). BR STD. H6343/20 8.9.20 MARKED BY GREEN BUOY SURMOUNTED BY CONE POINT UPPERMOST IN 504810N, 013339E. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H2961/22 18.5.22 POSN 504810N, 013341E. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H4325/22 12.7.22 NOT DANGEROUS TO NAVIGATION. (PARIS NM 26/851/22). H6396/24 23.9.24 GREEN WRECK BUOY REMOVED. (PARIS NMS 37/1772 & 26/851/2).

- NM. H8599/24 INS WK 6.75FMS IN LIEU OF WK 2.75FMS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED).

- NM. H3954/25 16.6.25 LEAST DEPTH OF 13MTRS [7FMS] REPORTED. (FRENCH CHARTS). BR STD. 10.9.73 NOW CHARTED IN 504806N, 013341E ON NC 1892. H2981/78 11.3.85 WK 15.1 MTRS IN 504808.5N, 013336E [EUR]. (FRENCH NM 85 05 36). BR STD. 6.11.97 NOW CHARTED IN 504803N, 013336E [OGB]. NE 1892. SEP 2006/000373179 13.9.06 SHOWN AS WK 15.1MTRS ON FRENCH 6824 [4TH EDN 2006]. BA 1892 CORRECT, INS ON BA 2451.

- NM 5088/06. 10.8.12 [WGD] POSN: 5048.076N, 0133.452E.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 50 48.076 N,1 33.452 E

 

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