This is the information page about the shipwreck Foudroyant, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 4.961 N,2 15.389 E (51.1325, 2.5103666666667)

 

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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. Bourrasque
2. Bramden (possibly)
3. Brighton
4. Bruno heinemann (z.8)
5. Calypso
6. Clan macalister
7. Clan macneil (possibly)
8. De wandilaar
9. Douaisien (possibly)
10. Ely
11. Estafette
12. Etendard
13. Fenella (possibly)
14. Fennella
15. Floride (probably)
16. Foudroyant
17. Foudroyant (possibly)
18. Ganko
19. Halo (probably)
20. Hms blackburn rovers (possibly)
21. Hms brighton queen
22. Hms grenade
23. Hms keith
24. Hms king orry
25. Hms redcar
26. Hms skipjack
27. Hms st abbs
28. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
29. Hms thuringia (possibly)
30. Hms westella
31. Horst
32. Hs 97 (possibly)
33. Jaguar
34. Jean pierre et phillipe
35. Jonrix
36. Kestrel
37. L'urtiga (possibly)
38. Laura
39. Le copain d'abord
40. Lorina
41. Lorina (possibly)
42. M 345 (possibly)
43. M 3630 (possibly)
44. Madimba (probably)
45. Marie
46. Mariner (possibly)
47. Marthe
48. Melrose
49. Mona's queen
50. Neerlandais
51. Normannia
52. Noroit
53. Okeania
54. Paris (possibly)
55. Pavon
56. Port nicholson (probably)
57. Portrieux
58. Prinses astrid
59. Quo vadis
60. R.93 (possibly)
61. Robert-clara
62. Sabrina
63. Saint camille
64. Sea hunter
65. Sint annaland
66. St corentin
67. St fagan
68. St pierre (aft section)
69. St pierre (fore portion)
70. Sterre der zee
71. Toquet
72. Trifels
73. Tringa
74. Uc 63
75. V 201 (possibly)
76. Vlaanderen (probably)
77. West-hinder
78. Wielingen ii (possibly)
79. Wolf
80. Zeester

 

Name: FOUDROYANT

Length 101.5 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 1772 ton

Cause: bombed and sunk by german a/c during operations to evacuate french and british armies from dunkirk.

Year of registration: 1977

Water depth above wreck: 23 meter, Height above seabed: 0 cm

Known since: 1977, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: H3544/72 3.8.77 WK 14MTRS IN 510512N, 021503E [EUR]. (FRENCH NM 77 27 19).

- NM 1868/77. H3544/72 22.3.78 NOW WK WITH LESS THAN 20 MTRS OVER IT. (FRENCH NM 77 27 19). AMEND TO DW.

- NM 804/78. H1310/88/18 15.7.88 THIS IS CERTAINLY THE WK OF THE FRENCH DESTROYER FOUDROYANT. LIES ALMOST UPSIDE DOWN. (J COULON, 15.3.88). H1271/87 10.11.88 SHOWN AS DW PA ON FRENCH 7057 [1987 EDN]. IDENTITY NOT CONFIRMED. (FRENCH WK RECORD NO 21612225) AMEND TO DW PA. NC 323. H1311/88/56 15.12.88 FOUDROYANT DIVED SEVERAL TIMES. LIES WITH BOWS N AND ALMOST UPSIDE DOWN. POSN IS 510500N, 021528E. (J COULON, 14.11.88). HH351/350/01 5.4.89 POSN NOW 510500.5N, 021528E [EUR]. (FRENCH NM 89 09 24).

- NM 1155/89. 8.4.03 SHOWN AS DW [PA] IN 5104.960N, 0215.390E [WGD] ON FRENCH 7057 [INT 1482] [2ND EDN 2002, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NE 1350. SEP 2015/000164272 18.9.15 SHOWN AS DW [PA] 13MTRS IN 5103.671N, 0215.682E [WGD] ON BE 11 [NE, DTD 1.7.15]. AMEND TO DW [PA] 13MTRS IN REVISED POSN. SEP 2015/000224397 12.11.15 SHOWN AS DW(PA) IN 5104.961N, 0215.389E [WGD] ON FRENCH 7057. (EDN 4, 2015). AMEND DW(PA) IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, INVERTED, BOWS N

Position: 51 4.961 N,2 15.389 E

 

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