This is the information page about the shipwreck Indutionmare, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 34.394 N,1 26.627 W (50.573233, -1.443783)

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: INDUTIONMARE

Length 79 meter, width: 12 meter, tonnage 1577 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1910 by w pickersgill & sons, sunderland. owned at time of loss by antwersche zeer maats (brys & glysen, managers)(lloyd royal belge). two boilers, triple expansion engine of 162 nhp, single shaft. passage newport for le havre. torpedoed by uc-61. (d c wendes).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 30 meter, Height above seabed: 110 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2012

Details measurements/cartography: H1968/77 18.8.81 H1968/77 18.8.81 EXAM'D 2.9.80 IN 503418N, 012636W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [2 LOP]. DECCA USED. LEAST E/S DEPTH 23.8 IN GEN DEPTH 29 MTRS. NO SCOUR. DCS3 HT 4-5 MTRS. LYING 130/310DEGS, ON N SIDE OF SMALL SAND WAVE AREA. 60-70MTRS IN LENGTH. (SCESU, HI 81/80, H525 3/80). CHART AS WK 23.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 2081/81. 1.2.07 1.2.07 WK LISTS TO PORT, THE PORT BOILER BEING ALMOST BURIED IN SAND. 90MM FRENCH FIELD GUN LIES IN THE STERN, WHICH LIES HALF OVER TO THE PORT SIDE. A LARGE, STEEL SHIP'S WHEEL IS IN POSITION AT THE STERN. ENGINE IS THE HIGHEST PART OF THE WK. LIES CLOSE TO POSN GIVEN BY THE MASTER, THE GUN ON THE STERN IS A FRENCH FIELD GUN, CONSISTENT WITH THAT CARRIED BY INDUTIONMARE. (D C WENDES, SOUTH COAST SHIPWRECKS). NCA. 24.10.12 24.10.12 EXAM'D 28.1.12 IN 5034.394N, 0126.627W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 22.47 IN GEN DEPTH 34MTRS. LEAST W/C DEPTH 24.49MTRS. SCOUR 1.5MTRS DEEP AROUND WK. LENGTH 86MTRS, WIDTH 18MTRS, HT 5.6MTRS. LIES 110/290 DEGS WITH BOWS ESE. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. PARTIALLY INTACT, LISTING TO THE SW WITH PORT GUNWHALE ELEVATED. (EMU, HI 1366). AMEND WK 22MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: LISTS TO PORT, ON N SIDE OF SMALL SAND WAVE AREA

Position: 50 34.394 N,1 26.627 W

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