Wreck: Jaguar (Destroyer)

This is the information page about the shipwreck Jaguar, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 3.437 N,2 22.2 E (51.1325, 2.5103667)


 

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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง, 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.

 

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Shipwreck details

Name: JAGUAR

Length 126.8 meter, width: 11.3 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 2126 ton

Cause: 23.5.40 bombed & sunk by german a/c, while engaged in operations connected with the evacuation of british & french armies from dunkirk. (dods). sinking date given as 23.5.40. (french wk records). torpedoed by german mtbs on 23.5.40 and beached. (r verpoorte).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 1 meter

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: H0950/40 4.10.41 ST IN 510331N, 022210E. (ADMIRALTY). - FNM 2325/41. 1.10.57 [EUR] POSN: 510330N, 022213E. H1270/77 28.2.77 NOW CHARTED IN 510331N, 022209E. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 323. 29.9.77 ST SHOWN IN 510332N, 022213E ON FRENCH 6500 [1977 EDN]. NC 1350. 1.11.79 2 G CONL BUOYS LAID IN 510334N, 022212E & 510334N, 022216E. (FRENCH NM 78.37.21). BR STD. 4.11.88 SHOWN AS ST DRIES 2.2MTRS IN 510329N, 022216.6E [EUR], WITH G PILLAR BUOYS CLOSE N ON FRENCH 7057 [1987 EDN]. IDENTITY GIVEN. POSN ACCURACY 20MTRS, FIXED BY THEODOLITE IN 1986. (FRENCH WK RECORDS - 1987 - NO.21612115). NE 1350. [WGD] POSN: 5103.437N, 0222.200E. SEP 2015/000224397 06.11.15 SHOWN AS ST DRIES 2.2MTRS IN 5103.437N, 0222.200E[WGD] ON FRENCH 7057. [ED4 01.01.15]. AMEND ST DRIES 2.2MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UNLIT N CARD CAN BUOY CLOSE N

Position: 51 3.437 N,2 22.2 E

 

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