This is the information page about the shipwreck Friesland, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 3.641 N,1 34.175 E (52.795983333333, 1.6965)

 

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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. Aberhill
2. Actuosity (possibly)
3. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
4. Algarve
5. Alice taylor
6. Alster
7. Alston
8. Angele-erika
9. Aquarius (possibly)
10. Artemisia
11. Asteria
12. Ayrshire (possibly)
13. Barrhill
14. Bertha
15. Birtley
16. Boulderpool (fwd part)
17. British triumph
18. Camilla weston
19. Cantabria (probably)
20. Cardanel
21. Chevington
22. Clan morrison
23. Clansman (possibly)
24. Continental (possibly)
25. Corchester
26. Cordene
27. Corduff
28. Corea
29. Courier (probably)
30. Duncarron
31. Efos
32. Eikhaug
33. Empress
34. Ems
35. Ethel
36. Friesland
37. Fulgens
38. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
39. Gardenia
40. Georgia (for'd part)
41. Georgia (stern section)
42. Glen derry (probably)
43. Granta
44. Hauxley (possibly)
45. Hector gannet
46. Hms agate
47. Hms arley
48. Hms caroline moller
49. Hms cloughton wyke
50. Hms dungeness
51. Hms force
52. Hms francolin
53. Hms nogi
54. Hms vortigern
55. Hms william stephen
56. Hmsm c 11
57. Homefire
58. I t l anna b
59. Ilse
60. Jessie maersk
61. Jevington court
62. Kenton
63. Keymun
64. King egbert
65. La perouse (possibly)
66. Lanterna (probably)
67. Leelite
68. Londoner (probably)
69. Marden
70. Marsworth
71. Meriones
72. Minorca
73. Montferland
74. Norman queen
75. Oakgrove
76. Ole bull
77. Otter
78. Oxshott (possibly)
79. Pacific (possibly)
80. Pacific (possibly)
81. Pegrix
82. Rimac
83. Roine
84. Rose marie
85. Roy
86. Salvus ii
87. Seagull
88. Seaham
89. Sheaf water
90. St mark
91. St thomas (possibly)
92. Tayjack 1 (part of)
93. Teddington
94. Thursonian
95. Traviata (possibly)
96. Trelissick
97. Tyneford
98. Upminster
99. Varoy
100. Walkure
101. Welholme (possibly)
102. Western mist (possibly)
103. Westland
104. Whintown (possibly)
105. Willowpool
106. Winhill or whinhill
107. Xanthe

 

Name: FRIESLAND

Length 89.9 meter, width: 13.4 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 2662 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1930 by cowpen drydock & sb co, blyth. owned at time of loss by scheepswaart-en steenkolen maats nv. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 270hp, single shaft. machinery aft by ne marine eng co ltd, newcastle-upon-tyne. passage london for blyth. in ballast. bombed and sunk by german aircraft while in convoy. 13 men lost.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 32 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H03754/41 20.8.42 INS AS NDW IN 530343N, 013414E. H03754/41 12.9.42 LOCATED IN 530342N, 013412E IN 17FMS. HAS DEPTH OF LESS THAN 25FT AT LW. (FOIC YARMOUTH). AMEND POSN.

- NM 1972/42. H03754/41 14.11.51 SWEPT CLEAR AT 79, FOUL AT 81FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 84 IN GEN DEPTH 109FT. STANDS 30FT HIGH. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 1951). AMEND TO WK 13FMS.

- NM ACTION. H332/62 4.2.63 H4729/62 EXAM'D IN 530334N, 013418E. LEAST E/S DEPTH 68 IN GEN DEPTH 105FT. (HMS SCOTT, 13.11.62). NCA YET. H332/62 4.2.64 SWEPT CLEAR AT 67, FOUL AT 72FT IN 530339N, 013416E. GEN DEPTH 105FT. (HMS SCOTT, 1963). AMEND TO WK 11FMS. BR STD. 11.5.72 AMEND SW 20.1MTRS. NC 106. HH090/524/01 8.1.92 EXAM'D 20.7.91 IN 530337.3N, 013412.5E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 20.1, FOUL AT 20.4MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 20.2 IN GEN DEPTH 32MTRS. SCOUR 1.5MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 6.5MTRS, LENGTH 110MTRS, WIDTH 28MTRS. LIES 012/192 DEG AND IS APPARENTLY STILL IN GOOD CONDITION. (LAND & MARINE, HI 531). AMEND POSN. BR STD. SEP 2018/000212985 13.9.18 EXAM'D 31.3.18 IN 5303.641N, 0134.175E [WGD]. LEAST W/C DEPTH 24.46MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 32MTRS, LENGTH 97.6MTRS, WIDTH 18.4MTRS, HEIGHT 7.8MTRS, ORIENTATION 090/270 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 30.4MTRS, 1.2MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 052 DEGS. BROKEN AND PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE, HI 1515). AMEND TO DW 24MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 3.641 N,1 34.175 E

 

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