This is the information page about the shipwreck Douaisien (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 4.626 N,2 27.246 E (51.1325, 2.5103667)

 

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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. A-15 (possibly)
2. Bourrasque
3. Bowsprite (bow section)
4. Bramden (possibly)
5. Brighton
6. Bruno heinemann (z.8)
7. Clan macalister
8. Clan macneil (possibly)
9. Cmb 71a
10. Dortmund
11. Douaisien (possibly)
12. Estafette
13. Etendard
14. Fennella
15. Fl5
16. Floride (probably)
17. Foudroyant
18. Foudroyant (possibly)
19. G 96
20. Ganko
21. Hms basilisk
22. Hms brighton queen
23. Hms gracie fields
24. Hms grafton
25. Hms grenade
26. Hms keith
27. Hms king orry
28. Hms skipjack
29. Hms st abbs
30. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
31. Hms wakeful
32. Hms waverley
33. Hms whitley
34. Horst
35. Jaguar
36. Kestrel
37. Keulse vaart iv
38. L'urtiga (possibly)
39. Laura
40. Le copain d'abord
41. Lorina
42. Lorina (possibly)
43. Lst 420 (stern section)
44. Mariner (possibly)
45. Marthe
46. Melrose
47. Mona's queen
48. P 319
49. Prinses astrid
50. Queen of the channel (possibly)
51. Quo vadis
52. R.93 (possibly)
53. Rita
54. Sabrina
55. Saint camille
56. Sigurds faulbaums
57. St fagan
58. Sterre der zee
59. Toquet
60. Torpilleur branlebas
61. Trifels
62. Tringa
63. Ub29
64. Uc 63
65. V 201 (possibly)
66. Vlaanderen (probably)
67. West-hinder
68. Wielingen ii (possibly)
69. Wolf
70. Zeester

 

Name: DOUAISIEN (POSSIBLY)

Length 103.3 meter, width: 14.6 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 2954 ton

Cause: Bult in 1921 by nordseewerke ag. owned at time of loss by cie des bateaux a vaperu du nord. triple expansion engine of 320nhp. sunk by magnetic mine when leaving dunkirk after evacuating french troops. (dods).

Year of registration: 1965

Water depth above wreck: 15 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1965, last detected: 2017

Details measurements/cartography: H7304/53 29.1.65 WK 4.5MTRS 063DEGS, 3.85M FROM DUNKERQUE GPFL LT. (PARIS NM 62 46 11).

- NM 2790/62. H2981/78 25.4.79 POSN GIVEN AS 510440N, 022719E. (BREST NM 79 07 28). BR STD. H2981/78 1.8.79 H2981/78 1.8.79 NOW WK 3.9MTRS. (BREST NM 79 24 36). BR STD. 16.8.85 WK OF CARGO VESSEL EXAM'D IN 510440N, 022719E [EUR]. LEAST DEPTH 5.8 IN 16MTRS. LENGTH 100MTRS, LYING N/S AND UPRIGHT. (ANNALES HYDROGRAPHIQUES, 1983). LEAST DEPTH 3.9 IN GEN DEPTH 15MTRS. (1984 FR WK NO.21612065). H1310/86/24 3.10.86 DIVED ON 23.7.86. LARGE WK LYING WITH BOWS N AND A SCOUR OF 25MTRS DEPTH NEAR STERN. FRENCH RIFLE AMMUNITION FOUND. MAY BE FRENCH SS LE DOUAISIEN, SUNK 1940. (J COULON, 15.9.86). 16.10.96 SHOWN AS WK 4.2MTRS [MLS] ON BELGIUM 102 REPROMAT [MAY'96]. NC 1873. 14.11.11 SHOWN IN 5104.626N, 0227.246E [WGD] ON BA 1873 [EDN 4 DTD 19.5.11]. SEP 2016/000134562 23.11.16 SHOWN AS WK 6.1MTRS IN 5104.626N, 0227.246E [WGD] ON ENC FR474240. [ED2.0, DTD 25.5.16]. AMEND DW 6.1MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, BOWS N, SCOUR AT STERN

Position: 51 4.626 N,2 27.246 E

 

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