This is the information page about the shipwreck Draupner, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 53.94 N,5 8.09 W (48.699, -5.1015)

 

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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.

 

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Name: DRAUPNER

Length 70.4 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1126 ton

Cause: built 1901 by trondhjems mv. owned at time of loss by schjelderup & schjott. sunk by german submarine. (dods). sank 30m n of ushant whilst on passage from st. nazaire. (naval staff monographs vol 17).

Year of registration: 1969

Water depth above wreck: 101 meter

Known since: 1969, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: 22.4.69 NDW IN 485400N, 050800W [EUR]. GEN DEPTH 58FMS. (MANIERES BOOK, P.111). 24.1.78 SHOWN AS NDW ON FRENCH 6680 [INT 1708]. ALSO LISTED IN FRENCH WK RECORDS. H1271/78 14.4.78 INS AS NDW PA IN 485400N, 050800W [EUR]. BR STD. 10.8.87 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 90MTRS ON FRENCH 6680 [1986 EDN]. 26.2.88 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 90MTRS ON FRENCH 7067 [1987 EDN]. FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987 DO NOT LIST THIS WK. AMEND TO WK USC PD 90MTRS. NC 2644. 26.2.09 SHOWN IN 4853.940N, 0508.090W [WGD] ON FRENCH 6680 [3RD EDN 2003, CORRECT TO NM 42 29 08, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NC 2647.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 48 53.94 N,5 8.09 W

 

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