This is the information page about the shipwreck Germaine, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 36.871 N,4 55.832 W (50.505016666667, -5.2049666666667)

 

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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. Alcyon (possibly)
2. Angele (possibly)
3. Anna sophie
4. Antoinette (probably)
5. Arthurtown
6. Bogstad
7. Brabant
8. Brava
9. Brisk (probably)
10. Camelot challenger (possibly)
11. Carasa (possibly)
12. Carl
13. Castor 1
14. Cristina
15. Deputie gaston dumesnil (possibly)
16. Diligent
17. Dumfries
18. Elna e
19. Ezra weston (bow section)
20. Ezra weston (stern section)
21. Germaine
22. Girdleness
23. Gregynog
24. Hanover
25. Hemsley 1
26. Hmcs regina
27. Hmhs rewa
28. Hugin
29. Humbergate (probably)
30. Hunsgrove
31. Island maid
32. John taylor
33. Kai (possibly)
34. Kantoeng (part of)
35. Lake edon
36. Lake owens
37. Lisa maria
38. Madryn
39. Marguerite pry
40. Maria asumpta
41. Mary
42. Mefjord (possibly)
43. Milly (possibly)
44. N verberckmoes (possibly)
45. Orfordness
46. Par time and tide bell
47. Pearn pride (possibly)
48. Pegasus
49. Portugal
50. Prestige
51. Risoy (probably)
52. Runswick
53. Saphir
54. Sarah anderson (possibly)
55. Shad thames
56. Siracusa
57. Skopelos sky (after part)
58. Sphene (probably)
59. St joseph
60. St stanislas
61. Svint
62. Tagona
63. Towneley
64. U 1021 (possibly)
65. U 325 (possibly)
66. Ub 65
67. Warnow (possibly)

 

Name: GERMAINE

Length 75 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 4.4, tonnage 1428 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,coal

Cause: built in 1909 by sunderland shipbuilding co. owned at the time of loss by f bouet. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 177nhp, single shaft. machinery by ne marine engineering co, sunderland. passage swansea for rouen. torpedoed by u-110. (ll ww1, sibi & dods).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 40 meter, Height above seabed: 7 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2011

Details measurements/cartography: 10.3.18 10.3.18 SANK APPROXIMATELY 2M NNW OF PENTIRE HEAD. (BOT MASTER, DOCKET M12569). H2409/32 3.8.32 H2409/32 3.8.32 SWEEP REPORT NEGATIVE. (HMS BEAUFORT).H1247/69 17.5.79 WK OF ABOUT 500 TONS IN 503657N, 045549W [OGB] USING DECCA. WITH GUN ON STERN. WW1 LOSS OR SHORTLY AFTER. (R DAVIS, 14.5.79). CHART AS NDW. BR STD. HH100/351/12 13.3.97 HH100/351/12 13.3.97 IDENTIFIED AS THE WRECK OF THE 'GERMAINE' BY THE RECOVERY OF ITS BELL. (G J POUND). HH100/351/19 24.12.02 HH100/351/19 24.12.02 [WGD] POSN: 5036.841N, 0439.840W. LYING E/W IN GEN DEPTH 47MTRS AT SLACK WATER. (J ROSEVEARE/G FURSE TELECON 17.12.02). AMEND POSN. BR STD. 24.11.11 24.11.11 LOCATED 27.3.10 IN 5036.871N, 0455.832W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 36.17 IN GEN DEPTH 40.0MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 76.8MTRS, WIDTH 15.8MTRS, HT3.83MTRS. LIES 007/187 DEGS WITH BOWS N. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1157). AMEND WK 36MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, BOWS N

Position: 50 36.871 N,4 55.832 W

 

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