This is the information page about the shipwreck Jeanne marie, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 20.291 N,2 19.842 W (49.465666666667, -2.6346666666667)

 

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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. Agenoria
2. Ambassadrice
3. Amiable lucitte
4. Antoinette
5. Arnold maersk
6. Balance
7. Beauport
8. Bess mitchell
9. Bizon (possibly)
10. Bizon (probably)
11. Brighton
12. Briseis
13. Captain niko
14. Channel queen
15. Clarrie
16. Corail
17. Courier
18. Cuo
19. Dagenham
20. Dambuster
21. Diament
22. Dora
23. Dr rudolf wahrendorff
24. Dromore
25. Echo
26. Ella
27. Fermain
28. Flamer
29. Ford power
30. Foreland
31. Forth
32. Fulbore iii
33. Gulnare
34. Guyona
35. Heron
36. Hms determinee (ex la determinee)
37. Hms severn
38. Hopper
39. Jeanne marie
40. Jesmond
41. Joseph and margaret
42. Juene marie
43. Jules
44. Kathleen
45. Kromwyk
46. La havre
47. La josephine
48. La mauve
49. Le poilu
50. Le squale
51. Leastilien
52. Louise
53. M 483
54. Marie galante
55. Mary toovey
56. Matelda
57. Megazan
58. Normandy
59. Olway
60. Oost vlaanderen
61. Orphee
62. Peter paul
63. Petite anna
64. Prima
65. Princess ena
66. Raffio
67. Ribbledale
68. Rontegui
69. Rossgull
70. Saint louis
71. Schelde
72. Schokland
73. Seydlitz (possibly)
74. Silvonia
75. St malo (possibly)
76. Susan k
77. Swift
78. To venner
79. Uc 18
80. Ullyses
81. Uss pt 509
82. Venus
83. Victorine
84. Voorwaarts
85. Waverley
86. Wear
87. Western belle
88. Wonder
89. Yorouba

 

Name: JEANNE MARIE

Length 95.1 meter, width: 14 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 2971 ton
Load: non-ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined

Cause: built in 1912 by ateliers & chantiers de france, dunkirk. owned at time of loss by soc francaise d'armament, marseille. triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage new york for brest. struck mine laid by uc-47. (ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 53 meter

Known since: 1918, last detected: 1999

Details measurements/cartography: SANK OFF SARK IN 492015N, 022235W. (LL WW1). H4483/30 10.7.30 H4483/30 10.7.30 SALVAGE OPS IN PROGRESS. (GUERNSEY STATES SUPERVISOR, 28.6.30). TNM ISSUED. H4483/30 3.1.31 H4483/30 3.1.31 SALVAGE WORK SUSPENDED. (GUERNSEY STATES SUPERVISOR). INS AS NDW IN 492015N, 022235W.

- NM 47/31. H4483/30 8.12.31 H4483/30 8.12.31 WK MARKED BY RED CONICAL BUOY DURING SALVAGE OPS. - TNM ISSUED. H5259/37 25.7.37 H5259/37 25.7.37 SALVAGE WORK ON CARGO COMPLETED. H4483/30 14.3.60 H4483/30 14.3.60 SANK WITH A CARGO OF COPPER AND ALUMINIUM. THIS WAS SALVAGED BY ITALIAN SALVAGE COMPANY, SORIMA, JUNE 1930 TO DEC 1931. (LETTERS FROM STATES OFFICE, GUERNSEY). 20.4.72 20.4.72 AMEND TO USC 20MTRS. NC 3655. 5.6.78 5.6.78 AMEND TO USC 30MTRS. NC 3654. 25.3.80 25.3.80 SHOWN AS USC 30MTRS ON FRENCH 879 [1980 EDN]. 10.7.85 10.7.85 FURTHER SALVAGE REPORTED BY SALVAGE VESSEL 'TUGRO'. (FISHING NEWS, 5.7.85). 18.6.86 18.6.86 LIES IN 492015N, 022245W [EUR] PD. LEAST DEPTH 28 IN GEN DEPTH 53MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1986). NCA. HH100/351/03 5.11.90 HH100/351/03 5.11.90 LOCATED IN 492020.5N, 021945W [EUR] USING DECCA. IDENTIFIED BY RECOVERED COPPER INGOTS. FURTHER SALVAGE HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT BY F SAUNDERS IN THE 'GLENSHIRA'. A LARGE PILE OF BARBED WIRE COILS, STANDING 30FT HIGH, LIE OFF THE STERN OF THE WK - PROBABLY DUMPED BY SORIMA IN THE 1930S. THIS AND THE BOILER REPRESENT THE HIGHEST POINTS. A LARGE 7 TON CONCRETE SINKER, WITH HEAVY CHAIN, LIES OPPOSITE THE BOILER. THE REMAINING CARGO IS DIFFICULT TO LIFT AS IT IS SHROUDED BY HEAVY DEBRIS. THE WK OF THE 'RAFFIO' LIES ABOUT 200MTRS N. (T A TITTERINGTON, 24.10.90). AMEND TO WKS USC 40MTRS IN 492021N, 021945W. BR STD. 29.4.99 29.4.99 AMENDED TO USC 40MTRS. BR STD. [WGD] POSN: 4920.291N, 0219.842W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 20.291 N,2 19.842 W

 

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