This is the information page about the shipwreck Grosser kurfurst, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 53.816 N,3 11.062 W (58.844716666667, -3.1926833333333)

 

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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. 090
2. Ac6
3. Almeria
4. Argyll
5. Atlantic (possibly)
6. Avra (possibly)
7. B 109 (part)
8. Bayern (turrets & wreckage)
9. Ben barvas
10. Benachie
11. Bettina danica
12. Bountiful
13. Bremse
14. Brummer
15. Budrie
16. Busy bee (part of)
17. Carolina thornden
18. Carron
19. Challenger
20. Clio
21. Clio ii
22. Collingdoc
23. Copeland
24. Corinthia (stern section)
25. Croma
26. Dalewood (possibly)
27. Danmark (after part)
28. Dresden
29. Duna
30. Dyle
31. Ebanezer
32. Edinboune
33. Elton
34. Emerald wings
35. Empire parsons (possiby)
36. Empire seaman
37. Empire seaman
38. Energy
39. Ephram
40. Excelsior
41. F2
42. Freesia
43. G101
44. G103
45. G104
46. Gartmore
47. Gobernador bories
48. Gondolier
49. Grosser kurfurst
50. Gunnaren
51. Hindenburg
52. Hmd chance
53. Hmd imbat
54. Hmd lustring
55. Hmd lustring
56. Hmd lustring
57. Hms dewey eve
58. Hms endeavour
59. Hms hampshire
60. Hms loch garry
61. Hms narborough
62. Hms opal
63. Hms pheasant
64. Hms roedean
65. Hms rose valley
66. Hms royal oak
67. Hms strathgarry
68. Hms vanguard
69. Ilsenstein
70. Inconnu
71. Invader
72. Inverlane (bow section)
73. Irene
74. James barrie
75. Johanna thorden
76. Juanita
77. Juniata (fore part)
78. Jv 526
79. Jv 751
80. Kaiser
81. Kaiserin
82. Karlsruhe
83. Kathe niederkirchner
84. Koln
85. Konig
86. Kronprinz wilhelm
87. Lapland
88. Lizzie bain (possibly)
89. Loch maddy (stern section)
90. Lorne
91. Lycia
92. Mara
93. Markgraf
94. Martis
95. Martis
96. Minieh
97. Naja (part of)
98. Napier star
99. Neptune
100. Norholmen
101. Numidian
102. Numidian
103. Ocean racer
104. Pennsylvania
105. Pinnace 288
106. Pinnace 744
107. Pontos
108. Prinzregent luitpold
109. Prudentia
110. Radiation
111. Reginald
112. Reinfield
113. Ronda (part of)(possibly)
114. Ros bui (?part of)(possibly)
115. Rosewood
116. Ross puma
117. Rotherfield
118. S 36 (bow section)
119. Seydlitz
120. Siherite
121. Skua flaes beacon
122. Solan
123. Strathelliot
124. Sunbeam
125. Sunlight
126. Tabarka (possibly)
127. Tbf fn899
128. Teeswood
129. Thames
130. Thunfisch
131. Ub 116
132. V 78 (part of)
133. V83
134. Yc 21

 

Name: GROSSER KURFURST

Length 176.8 meter, width: 29.6 meter, draught: 8.5, tonnage 25390 ton

Cause: scuttled.

Year of registration: 1919

Water depth above wreck: 30 meter

Known since: 1919, last detected: 2010

Details measurements/cartography: H8464/19 DWP (1919), LEAST DEPTH 5FMS, SHOWN IN 585352N, 031006W ON SURVEY [C7953]. INS AS DWP 5FMS (1919). BR STD. H62229/23 13.7.23 INS ON NE 3729. NM TO BRING SCALES INTO LINE.

- NM 1523/23. H5373/31 25.7.31 LEAST DEPTH OVER WK IS NOW 6.25FMS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H5326/33 29.6.34 WILL POSSIBLY BE SALVED. SOLD TO METAL INDUSTRIES LTD. H3348/35 20.8.35 NO WORK PROCEEDING YET (20.8.35), BUT WRECK MENTIONED IN LETTER IN H3348/35. (KHM INVERGORDON). H2294/37 16.4.37 OPERATION COMMENCED. (KHM INVERGORDON). - TNM 585/37. H2294/37 5.5.38 RECOMMEND POSN BE CHARTED AS FOUL ANCHORAGE. (KHM INVERGORDON). AMENDED TO FOUL ANCHORAGE (1938)

- NM 947/38. H2294/37 20.5.38 NOW DISPERSED OFF LYNESS. (METAL INDUSTRIES LTD). 29.4.38 RAISED 29.4.38. (JUTLAND TO JUNKYARD, S.C. GEORGE). 16.10.79 NOW CHARTED AS FOUL GROUND. NC 35. 29.1.05 LEGEND: 'FOUL GROUND' SHOWN BETWEEN ON 5953.804N, 0310.231W [WGD] ON BA 35 [EDN 5 DTD 27.3.03]. 7.10.10 LOCATED BY M/B IN LISTED POSN WHICH IS EAST END OF SCOUR. (FATHOMS LTD, POST SDC BATHY REPROCESSING). COVERED BY LEGEND 'FOUL GROUND'. NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: SEE CHART FOR LIMITS OF LEGEND

Position: 58 53.816 N,3 11.062 W

 

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