This is the information page about the shipwreck Elatma, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 14.723 N,3 2.559 E (52.247, 3.15)

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.

Name: Elatma

Length 103.5 meter, width: 12 meter, draught: 2.4, tonnage 1652 ton
Load: gas,fertiliser: natural and products

Cause: Built in 1967 by zovody tazheho, stojarstva, komarbo, czechoslavakia. owned at time of loss by vortika. passage klaipeda, lithuania for cannes. took water into no 1 hold in heavy weather and later sank. crew of 11 recovered. cargo repd to be 1378 tons of ammonium nitrate in 766 large bags, each of which contained 36 polythene bags. decision taken by neth authorities not to remove vessel in near future as lying so deep does not constitute a hazard to shipping. (ll & msd).

Year of registration: 1994

Water depth above wreck: 30 meter

Known since: 1994, last detected: 2022

Details measurements/cartography: HH340/530/02 18.4.94 REPD SUNK IN 521448N, 030248E [EUR]. MARKED BY W CARDINAL AND TWO E CARDINAL BUOYS WITH RACON 'D'. (NETH NAV WARNINGS 94 & 96 4.4.94), (LL 5.4.94). HH340/530/02 21.4.94 WK OF MV 'ELATMA' IN 521448N, 03 0248E, MARKED BY W CARD, VQ(9)10S 'W' IN 521456N, 030239E [EUR]; E CARD, Q(3)10S 'W' IN 521448N, 030257E [EUR]; E CARD, VQ(3)5S 'W' RACON (D), IN 521447N, 030310E [EUR]. (NETH CG TLX , DTD 20.4.94).

- NM 1516/94. HH340/530/02 2.6.94 SWEPT CLEAR AT 23.5MTRS. BUOYS AMENDED TO: TO THE WNW, W CARDINAL LT BUOY VQ(9), TO E, E CARD LT BUOY VQ(3), RACON (D). (NETH NM 291/94).

- NM 2044/94. HH340/530/02 13.7.94 RACON REMOVED, E CARD BUOY LT AMENDED TO Q(3). W CARD LT BUOY REMOVED. (NETH NM 345/94).

- NM 2586/94. 15.6.12 SHOWN AS SW 23MTRS IN 5214.723N, 0302.559E [WGD] ON BA 1630 [EDN 4 DTD 16.12.10]. SEP 2012/000117722 15.6.12 WK 23MTRS NOW SW 26MTRS. DELETE E CARD BUOY. (NETH NM 24/288/12).

- NM 2975/12.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 14.723 N,3 2.559 E

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