This is the information page about the shipwreck Greif, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 26.549 N,0 22.28 W (49.442483, -0.371333)

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.

Name: GREIF

Length 88.1 meter, width: 8.2 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 924 ton

Cause: sunk by british albacore aircraft of 415 squadron.

Year of registration: 1944

Water depth above wreck: 21 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1944, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: H7795/50 12.3.51 WK, LEAST DEPTH 16MTRS [8.75FMS], IN 492631N, 002211W. (PARIS NM 40 28 50).

- NM 507/51. H716/60 11.7.61 SHOWN AS WK 8FMS 4FT ON NC 2613. 28.5.82 SHOWN AS WK 15.5MTRS ON NC 2656. 6.4.90 SHOWN AS WK 15.5MTRS IN 492636N, 002213W ON FR 6857 [1986 EDN]. WRECK OF TWIN-SCREWED WARSHIP IN 492636.2N, 002211.9W [EUR] [+/-20MTRS]. EXAM'D IN 1977 USING MAGNETOMETER & E/S. LEAST DEPTH 15.5 IN GEN DEPTH 21MTRS. LIES ON STARBOARD SIDE WITH 2 LARGE HOLES. STANDS 5.2MTRS ABOVE SEABED. (FR WK RECORDS 1987 NO.14590115). CHART AS WK 15.5MTRS IN 492636N, 002212W. NC 2613. HH100/351/02 6.4.90 DIVED ON AND IDENTIFIED AS GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT 'GREIF'. (J COULON, 14.3.90). HH100/351/04 22.8.91 DIVED ON 14.8.91 IN 492630N, 002224W. POSN BY DECCA. LIES WITH BOW E ON PORT SIDE AND HALF BURIED IN SAND. STANDS 4MTRS HIGH. MOSTLY INTACT FROM BOW TO MIDSHIPS, WHERE VESSEL IS WELL BROKEN. MIDSHIPS TO STERN IS ALSO MOSTLY INTACT AND NEARLY UPSIDE DOWN. 2 IRON PROPELLERS AND RUDDER OBSERVED. LARGE GUN BARREL PROTRUDES FROM SEABED BELOW BOW SECTION. ANCHOR IN HAWSE. DECKS IN BAD CONDITION AND COLLAPSING. (M ROWLEY, 7.8.91). NCA. 17.5.01 LIES IN 4926.603N, 0022.198W [EUR]. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 2000). BR STD. 27.12.12 [WGD] POSN: 4926.549N, 0022.280W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: MOSTLY INTACT

Position: 49 26.549 N,0 22.28 W

Wrecks near the Netherlands
Wrecks near Belgium
Wrecks near Germany
Wrecks near France
Wrecks near Great Britain
Wrecks off Denmark
Wrecks off Sweden
Wrecks off Norway