This is the information page about the shipwreck Feltre, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 2.369 N,0 1.745 E (53.7402833, 0.2099667)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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: FELTRE
Length 124.7 meter, width: 16.2 meter, draught: 8.5, tonnage 6455 ton
Cause: Ex-rhenanai. built in 1904 by bremer vulkan, vegesack for italian state railways. requisitioned by the italian government and renamed feltre. quaduple exapansion engine of 387hp, screw propulsion. torpedoed and sunk by ub-32.
Year of registration: 1944
Water depth above wreck: 33 meter, Height above seabed: 165 cm
Known since: 1944, last detected: 20160310
Details measurements/cartography: H01624/44 29.7.44 POSN 540156N, 000150E. LEAST DEPTH 50FT. (CAPT M/S HUMBER, 15.7.44). INS AS NDW.
- NM 1612/44. 20.3.72 AMEND TO WK 15MTRS (50FT). NC 121. 3.7.72 SHOWN IN 540130N, 000130E ON DANISH FISH CHART 5400 [1965]. 9.5.74 AMEND TO WK 14.3MTRS [LAT]. NC 121(M). H2534/74 28.11.79 BAD OBSTN (WK) IN 540138N, 000220E. (KINGFISHER BOOK OF TOWS VOL 1). H5084/77 21.3.80 H5084/77 21.3.80 INTACT WK, WITH SMALL AMOUNT DETACHED WRECKAGE EXAM'D 28.11.79 IN 540223N, 000151E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 20 IN GEN DEPTH 34.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 14.7MTRS, LENGTH 142MTRS. LYING 165/345 DEG. (HMS ECHO, HI 664/79). INS AS WK 19.8MTRS.
- NM 775/80. H1942/76 9.3.81 SWEPT 30.7.80. CLEAR AT 17.7MTRS, FOUL AT 17.9MTRS. (SEA CONDITIONS 2MTR SWELL). ACCEPT SWEPT DEPTH. (SOISS, HI 65/80).
- NM 655/81. H1310/86/20 7.8.86 WK IN 540202N, 000152E HAS BEEN POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS THE REANEA. LARGE SS. STARTING TO BREAK UP. ENGINE ROOM STANDS 7MTRS HIGH IN GEN DEPTH 36MTRS. (B WINFIELD, 26.7.86). H1310/87/15 20.5.87 NOW IDENTIFIED AS THE FELTRE, EX RHENANIA. ALSO KNOWN LOCALLY AS CAP MOREL, OR CATTERMOLE, BUT THESE ARE THOUGHT CORRUPTIONS OF THE NAME OF A LAND FEATURE USED BY FISHERMEN TO LOCATE THE WK. (A GODFREY, 11.3.87). SEP 2016/000053291 3.10.16 EXAM'D 10.3.16; IN 5402.369N, 0001.745E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 23.62MTRS, GEN DEPTH 33MTRS. LENGTH 135.4MTRS, WIDTH 34.2MTRS, HT 11.3MTRS, ORIENTATION 165/345 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY, WK BROKEN UP. (MMT, HI 1473, H525_6470). AMEND DW 23.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 54 2.369 N,0 1.745 E