This is the information page about the shipwreck Dr rudolf wahrendorff, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 27.384 N,2 31.042 W (49.465666666667, -2.6346666666667)

 

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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. Agenoria
2. Agrion
3. Ambassadrice
4. Antoinette
5. Armas
6. Auguste and louise
7. Beauport
8. Belfort
9. Bess mitchell
10. Bizon (possibly)
11. Bizon (probably)
12. Bonafide
13. Brighton
14. Briseis
15. Buchanness
16. Buzuzlo (ex weston)
17. Capri
18. Captain niko
19. Carrouest one (possibly)
20. Channel queen
21. Charles
22. Cid
23. Clarrie
24. Constantia s (fwd part)
25. Corail
26. Cornelia
27. Dagenham
28. Dambuster
29. Dora
30. Dr rudolf wahrendorff
31. Dromore
32. Dunsinane
33. Echo
34. Ella
35. Emily eveson
36. Evasion
37. Fermain
38. Figaro
39. Ford power
40. Foreland
41. Forth
42. Goureux
43. Grandest
44. Guyona
45. Helge (possibly)
46. Helge (possibly)
47. Hms dragon
48. Hms viper
49. Hopper
50. Ida (ex abbey town)
51. Jeanne marie
52. Jesmond
53. Josef joham (stern half) (probably)
54. Joseph and margaret
55. Juene marie
56. Jules
57. Kondor (probably)
58. Kromwyk
59. La havre
60. La salle
61. Le nord
62. Le poilu
63. Le squale
64. Linn o dee (or linn o dec)
65. M 483
66. Mako
67. Marie galante
68. Marie mashman
69. Mary toovey
70. Matelda
71. Ocean queen
72. Oost vlaanderen
73. Peras
74. Point law
75. Prosperity (stern section)
76. Rabbi
77. Raffio
78. Rap
79. Rhenania
80. Rontegui
81. Saint louis
82. San nicolau
83. Seydlitz (possibly)
84. St louie
85. St malo (possibly)
86. Stella (probably)
87. Susan k
88. To venner
89. Uc 18
90. Ullyses
91. Vedanta
92. Victorine
93. Ville de malaga
94. Waverley
95. Wear
96. Western belle
97. Yorouba

 

Name: DR RUDOLF WAHRENDORFF

Year of registration: 1969

Water depth above wreck: 25 meter

Known since: 1970, last detected: 20150725

Details measurements/cartography: PREVIOUS RECORD MISSING. H4647/68 8.10.69 FOUL SHOWN ON BA 262B, NOT APPARENTLY LOCATED BY SCES SURVEY, 1968. H4647/68 1.7.70 WK WAS RE-DISCOVERED BY PLYMOUTH CLEARANCE DIVING TEAM AND FIXED IN CO-OPERATION WITH FSL WATERWITCH IN 492726.5N, 023058W USING HSA. LOCAL ARCHIVES STATE WK WAS ONCE FINNISH TRAWLER 'PRINCE RUPERT', BUILT 1928, AND TAKEN OVER BY GERMANS & RENAMED 'DOCTOR RUDOLPH WAHRENDORFF'. PLYMOUTH CLEARANCE DIVING TEAM REMOVED FROM WK: 20 FOUR INCH SHELLS, 17 CORDITE CARTRIDGES, 457 20MM SHELLS, & 105 40MM SHELLS DURING PERIOD 17-25.5.70. THE SHIP'S CABLE HAD FOULED THE WK. LEAST E/S DEPTH 15.8MTRS. WK STANDS 9.8MTRS HIGH, LENGTH 170FT. (FSL WATERWITCH).

- NM 1165/70. H4647/68 15.12.70 EXAMINED IN 492726N, 033058W [EUR], OR 089.25DEGS, 2130FT WHITE ROCK LT USING HSA. SWEPT CLEAR 15.4MTRS, FOUL 15.8MTRS. GEN DEPTH 25MTRS. SCOUR 25.6MTRS. SEABED OF SHELL & FINE SAND. (SCES, 25.8.70).

- NM 47/71. H1271/71 1.11.71 REPORTED AS 'PRINZ RUDOLF'. STILL INTACT. 120FT TO DECK. STILL CONTAINS AMMUNTION, ONE HOLD FULL OF BOMBS. (CHANNEL IS. SALVAGE CO). NCA. 13.5.04 [WGD] POSN: 4927.382N, 0231.047W. NE 3140. SEP 2014/000130511 9.10.14 SHOWN AS WK 18.6MTRS ON GUERNSEY WATER SURVEY DTD 3.3.14 - 15.3.14. AMEND WK 18.6MTRS. 16.2.15 DEPTH SHOWN IN GUERNSEY WATER SURVEY NOT CONSIDERED TO BE THE LEAST DEPTH. RETAIN PREVIOUS DEPTH. (A WINTERBOTTOM, BDC). AMEND SW 15.4MTRS. SEP 2015/000230440 19.11.15 EXAM'D 29.07.15, IN 4927.384N, 0231.042W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 17MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 25MTRS. LENGTH 48MTRS, WIDTH 9MTRS, HT 7MTRS. OREINTATION 100/280 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 14MTRS, DEPTH 2MTRS, ORIENTATION 112 DEGS. (HMSML GLEANER SNT02/15). AMEND TO DW 17MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 27.384 N,2 31.042 W

 

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