This is the information page about the shipwreck Erlenhain (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 46 52.64 N,4 39.68 W (46.877333333333, -4.6613333333333)

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: ERLENHAIN (POSSIBLY)

Length 73.5 meter, width: 11.3 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 499 ton
Load: fertiliser: natural and products

Cause: built in 1968 by j bodewes. owned at the time of loss by freidrich heidemann. reported overdue. later a lifeboat was found and then a liferaft. presumed to have sunk with all 7 crew. was on passage from gabes, tunisia, to port of new holland, river humber. (msd).

Year of registration: 1986

Water depth above wreck: 142 meter

Known since: 1986, last detected: 1988

Details measurements/cartography: H2909/85 7.2.86 H2909/85 7.2.86 LIFEBOAT FOUND IN 465500N, 045400W. LIFERAFT IN 464400N, 040900W. OIL SLICKS SEEN 465200, 044500W & 465200N, 043000W. (LL 28.1.86). POSN 465000N, 044000W FOR FILING ONLY. H3292/88 25.7.88 H3292/88 25.7.88 WK, COVERED BY MORE THAN 20MTRS, IN 465242N, 043936W [EUR][POSN DOUBTFUL]. (FRENCH NM 88 27 30). INS AS NDW PD. NC 2646.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 46 52.64 N,4 39.68 W

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