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, 2.5103666666667)

 

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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. Aloha
3. Bourrasque
4. Bowsprite (bow section)
5. Bowsprite (bow section)
6. Bramden (possibly)
7. Brighton
8. Bruno heinemann (z.8)
9. Calypso
10. Clan macalister
11. Clan macneil (possibly)
12. Cmb 71a
13. De wandilaar
14. Dortmund
15. Douaisien (possibly)
16. Ely
17. Estafette
18. Etendard
19. Fenella (possibly)
20. Fennella
21. Fl5
22. Floride (probably)
23. Foudroyant
24. Foudroyant (possibly)
25. G 96
26. Ganko
27. Halo (probably)
28. Hms basilisk
29. Hms brighton queen
30. Hms gracie fields
31. Hms grafton
32. Hms grenade
33. Hms keith
34. Hms king orry
35. Hms polly johnson
36. Hms skipjack
37. Hms st abbs
38. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
39. Hms wakeful
40. Hms waverley
41. Hms whitley
42. Horst
43. Hs 97 (possibly)
44. Jaguar
45. Kap arkona
46. Kestrel
47. Keulse vaart iv
48. L'urtiga (possibly)
49. Laura
50. Le copain d'abord
51. Lorina
52. Lorina (possibly)
53. Lst 420 (bow section)
54. Lst 420 (stern section)
55. Lucy jenny ii
56. Marie
57. Mariner (possibly)
58. Marthe
59. Melrose
60. Mona's queen
61. Normannia
62. P 319
63. Prinses astrid
64. Queen of the channel (possibly)
65. Quo vadis
66. R.93 (possibly)
67. Rita
68. Robert-clara
69. Sabrina
70. Saint camille
71. Sea hunter
72. Sigurds faulbaums
73. St corentin
74. St fagan
75. Sterre der zee
76. Toquet
77. Torpilleur branlebas
78. Trifels
79. Tringa
80. Ub29
81. Uc 63
82. V 201 (possibly)
83. Vlaanderen (probably)
84. West-hinder
85. Wielingen ii (possibly)
86. Wolf
87. 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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