This is the information page about the shipwreck Heenvliet, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 30.42 N,2 4.666 E (53.7458667, 1.8136)

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: HEENVLIET

Length 46 meter, width: 7.6 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 492 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: Captured by german submarine ub 31 and sunk by gunfire while on passage to england.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 40 meter

Known since: 1918, last detected: 1991

Details measurements/cartography: 3.3.18 SUNK IN 533000N, 020500E, APPROX. (MATE). INS AS WK. H4282/26 14.10.26 AMEND TO NDW PA (1918). H619/65 14.5.65 NOT FOUND. (K4466). DELETED. 29.6.72 SHOWN IN 532948N, 020506E [EUR] ON DANISH FISHERY CHART 5302 [1965]. NCA. 5.7.78 WAS SUNK WEST OF SWARTEBANK. (DER KREIG ZUR SEE). THIS INDICATES THAT IT COULD LIE FURTHER W THAN THE LISTED POSN. HH090/524/01 2.1.91 INS NDW IN 533024N, 020447E. BR STD. H3939/88 14.5.91 NOT FOUND IN LISTED POSN OR TO THE NORTH WEST. FULL DISPROVING SEARCH NOT CONDUCTED. (HMS BEAGLE, HI 461). HH090/520/01 26.9.91 NOT FOUND. (NP 1008, HI 520). HH090/524/01 2.1.92 LOCATED ON EXTENSION OF SOUNDING LINE IN 533024N, 020447E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [5 LOP]. NOT EXAM'D. (LAND & MARINE, HI 524). AMEND POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 30.42 N,2 4.666 E

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