This is the information page about the shipwreck Figaro, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 24.646 N,2 39.026 W (49.465666666667, -2.6346666666667)

 

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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.

 

1. Adamantious lemos (possibly)
2. Agenoria
3. Ambassadrice
4. Antoinette
5. Auguste and louise
6. Beauport
7. Belfort
8. Bess mitchell
9. Bizon (possibly)
10. Bizon (probably)
11. Brighton
12. Briseis
13. Buzuzlo (ex weston)
14. Capri
15. Captain niko
16. Channel queen
17. Charles
18. Clarrie
19. Corail
20. Cornelia
21. Dagenham
22. Dambuster
23. Dr rudolf wahrendorff
24. Dromore
25. Dunsinane
26. Ella
27. Evasion
28. Fermain
29. Figaro
30. Ford power
31. Foreland
32. Forth
33. Goureux
34. Grandest
35. Guyona
36. Helge (possibly)
37. Helge (possibly)
38. Hopper
39. Ida (ex abbey town)
40. Jesmond
41. Josef joham (stern half) (probably)
42. Juene marie
43. Jules
44. Kondor (probably)
45. La havre
46. La salle
47. Mako
48. Mary toovey
49. Ocean queen
50. Oost vlaanderen
51. Prosperity (stern section)
52. Rontegui
53. Saint louis
54. San nicolau
55. Santez-anna
56. Seydlitz (possibly)
57. St louie
58. St malo (possibly)
59. Stella (probably)
60. To venner
61. Uc 18
62. Ullyses
63. Vedanta
64. Verza
65. Victorine
66. Waverley
67. Wear
68. Western belle
69. Yorouba

 

Name: FIGARO

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 46 meter

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2000

Details measurements/cartography: H2537/28 24.8.28 TORPEDOED 210DEGS, 3.5M FROM LES HANOIS, GUERNSEY. GIVES POSN 492200N, 024500W. NOT CHARTED. 29.10.75 CHARTED AS WK USC PA 20FMS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 2649. 13.2.80 SHOWN AS NDW PA ON FRENCH 878 [DEC'79 EDN]. AMEND TO WK USC PA 42MTRS [23FMS]. BR STD. HH100/351/02 2.2.90 LIES IN 492439N, 023855W [EUR]. IN TWO PARTS AND VERY BROKEN UP. GEN DEPTH 46MTRS. ON SHINGLE SEABED. BRASS NAME PLATE WAS RECOVERED FROM WK IN THE 1960S. (A MARQUAND). AMEND TO NDW IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. HH100/351/17 24.4.01 DIVED IN 4924.646N, 0239.026W [WGD] USING GPS. STANDS 6MTRS HIGH BY E/S. LIES IN GULLEY BETWEEN REEFS. BOILER PROUD OF THE SEABED, BUT GENERALLY THE WK IS WELL FLATTENED. CINC REQUESTED. (M PAIGE). AMEND POSN. BR STD. 26.9.08 26.9.08 CINC REMOVED, MORE THAN 5 YEARS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WELL BROKEN UP. IN TWO MAIN PARTS

Position: 49 24.646 N,2 39.026 W

 

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