Wreck: Elisabethville (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Elisabethville, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 47 8.84 N,3 9.78 W (46.865666666667, -3.1346666666667)
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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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Shipwreck details
Name: ELISABETHVILLE
Length 126.5 meter, width: 16.8 meter, draught: 7.6, tonnage 7017 ton
Cause: built 1910 by a stephen & sons. owned at the time of loss by cie belge maritime du congo. quaduruple expansion engines of 568nhp. torpedoed & sunk by a german submarine.
Year of registration: 1928
Water depth above wreck: 70 meter
Known since: 1928, last detected: 2019
Details measurements/cartography: H4774/28 7.8.28 SALVAGE OPS IN PROGRESS ON WK 'ELISABETHVILLE' IN 470830N, 031100W OR 206.5DEGS, 11.5M FROM KERDONIS LT, BELLE ILE. (PARIS NM 30/1428). NOT SHOWN ON FR 5164 [1922 EDN]. NCA.H4774/28 18.12.28 WK, LEAST DEPTH 18MTRS, MARKED BY RW CON BUOY CLOSE S. (PARIS NM 48/2264). AMENDED TO NDW MARKED BY BUOY. NE 2646. H4774/28 18.12.28 CHART AS WK 9.75FMS (1928) IN 470830N, 031100W MARKED BY RW CON BUOY CLOSE S. NOTE. H1873/35 18.3.35 BUOY REMOVED. (PARIS NM 10/526).
- NM 464/35. H1873/35 11.8.36 5 BUOYS LAID FOR SALVAGE WORK. (PARIS NM 29/1825T). - TNM 1522/36. H4017/37 21.7.37 TNM CANCELLED. H1271/77 16.12.81 SHOWN AS NDW PA ON FR 6789 [1981 EDN]. 16.12.81 NDW PA IN 470830N, 031100W. GEN DEPTH 75MTRS. (FR WK RECORDS DTD 18.10.76). R/P. 21.7.87 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 40MTRS ON FR 7068 [1986 EDN] & FR 7067 [1987 EDN]. AMEND TO WK USC PA 40MTRS. NC 2646. 7.9.88 BELGIAN SS 'ELISABETHVILLE' IN 470830N, 031100W [EUR]. POSN ACCURACY 1M [=PA]. USC 40MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 70MTRS. (FR WK RECORDS 1987, NO.14573159). H4639/87 23.12.88 WK 64MTRS IN 470854N, 030942W [EUR]. (FRENCH NM 88 46 21). NC 2646.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 47 8.84 N,3 9.78 W
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