This is the information page about the shipwreck Irene oldendorff, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 38.353 N,6 16.83 E (53.5606667, 6.5186833)

 

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Name: IRENE OLDENDORFF

Length 81.7 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 1494 ton
Load: coke

Cause: Built in 1950 by lubecker masch. ges., with compound engines. owned at time of loss by egon oldendorff. passage emden for ystad. capsized & sank about 5m off hubert gat when cargo shifted. 11 lives lost. (dods).

Year of registration: 1952

Water depth above wreck: 20 meter

Known since: 1952, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: H497/52 8.2.52 DW IN 533827N, 061710E, MARKED BY G LT BUOY, FL(2)G. (HAGUE NM 7/87 & NAVEAM 381).

- NM 259/52. H497/52 16.4.52 NOW WK 8.3MTRS [4FMS 3FT]. (HAMBURG NM 683/52). NE 3761. H497/52 10.6.54 LT ON BUOY NOW INT.QFL.G. (HAGUE NM 1587/54).

- NM 1342/54. H497/52 31.1.55 NOW WK 15.3MTRS [8FMS 2FT]. BUOY REMOVED. (HAMBURG NM 3809/54).

- NM 150/55. H1852/58 15.6.59 SHOWN AS WK 16MTRS [8FMS 4FT] ON GERMAN 90. NC 3761. H2140/57 25.10.63 LEAST DEPTH NOW 15.5MTRS [8FMS 3FT]. (HAGUE NM 3079/63).

- NM 2175/63. H5850/48 11.2.66 NOW WK SW 18.5MTRS. (HAMBURG NM 3831/65). BR STD. 26.11.70 SHOWN AS WK SW 18MTRS [9FMS 5FT] ON NETHERLANDS 1352 [1970 EDN]. NES 3761, 1405. 16.3.72 DESCRIBED AS GOOD SONAR CONTACT ON GERMAN WK CHART 87 [1971 EDN]. H4745/62 30.11.81 NOW WK SW 16MTRS [8FMS 4FT] IN 533824N, 061653E [EUR]. (HAMBURG NM 3853/81).

- NM 2966/81. 9.1.87 SHOWN AS WK SW 15.7MTRS [8FMS 3FT] ON NETHERLANDS 1460 [1984 EDN] & GERMAN 90D [1986 EDN]. NE 3761. H4146/82 29.7.88 NOW SW 15.1MTRS. (HAMBURG NM (21)90/27/88).

- NM 2509/88. 13.3.08 SHOWN AS WK SW 14.7MTRS [LAT] IN 5338.360N, 0616.803E [WGD] ON GERMAN 90 [INT 1461] [FEB '07 EDN, ADOPTION]. NE 3631. 7.4.11 SHOWN IN 5338.374N, 0616.839E [WGD] ON BA 1633 [EDN 2 DTD 23.12.10].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 38.353 N,6 16.83 E

 

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