This is the information page about the shipwreck Jessie maersk, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 5.941 N,1 24.246 E (53.0506667, 1.1718667)

 

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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. Actuosity (possibly)
2. Algarve
3. Alice taylor
4. Alster
5. Alston
6. Ambrose fleming
7. Antiope
8. Aquarius (possibly)
9. Artemisia
10. Asteria
11. Baron ailsa
12. Bertha
13. Birtley
14. Blackburn
15. Boulderpool (fwd part)
16. British triumph
17. Burgos
18. Camilla weston
19. Cantabria (probably)
20. Chevychase
21. Clan morrison
22. Clansman (possibly)
23. Continental (possibly)
24. Corchester
25. Corduff
26. Courier (probably)
27. Duncarron
28. Efos
29. Eikhaug
30. Empress
31. Ems
32. Ethel
33. Francois trixier
34. Friesland
35. Fulgens
36. Gardenia
37. George royle
38. Georgia (stern section)
39. Giorgio ohlsen
40. Granta
41. Hauxley (possibly)
42. Heathfield
43. Hms arley
44. Hms cap d'antifer
45. Hms caroline moller
46. Hms cloughton wyke
47. Hms dungeness
48. Hms francolin
49. Hms kylemore
50. Hms solomon
51. Hms vortigern
52. Hms william stephen
53. Hmsm c 11
54. Hmsm umpire
55. Homefire
56. I t l anna b
57. Ilse
58. Jessie maersk
59. Jevington court
60. Kenton
61. Keymun
62. King egbert
63. Lanterna (probably)
64. Leelite
65. Londoner (probably)
66. Marden
67. Minorca
68. Nimrod (probably)
69. Norman queen
70. Oakgrove
71. Ole bull
72. Ottar jarl
73. Otter
74. P.l.m. 25
75. Pacific
76. Pacific (possibly)
77. Pacific (possibly)
78. Pegrix
79. Pontfield (forepart)
80. Rimac
81. Robert w pomeroy
82. Rosalie (possibly)
83. Rose marie
84. Salvus ii
85. Seaham
86. Sheaf water
87. Sitona
88. St mark
89. St thomas (possibly)
90. Tayjack 1 (part of)
91. Tayjack 1 (part of)
92. Teddington
93. Thursonian
94. Trajan
95. Traviata (possibly)
96. Trelissick
97. Tyneford
98. Upminster
99. Varoy
100. Welholme (possibly)
101. Western mist (possibly)
102. Westland
103. Whintown (possibly)
104. Winhill or whinhill
105. Xanthe
106. Zephyr

 

Name: JESSIE MAERSK

Length 85.3 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 1972 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Built in 1920 by a vuijk & zonen. owned at time of loss by the ministry of shipping (w t gould). triple expansion engine of 224nhp. passage london and southend for blyth. in ballast. torpedoed and sunk by e-boat. 20 men lost.

Year of registration: 1942

Water depth above wreck: 22 meter, Height above seabed: 24 cm

Known since: 1942, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H03402/42 27.11.42 LOCATED IN 530600N, 012430E. DISPERSED TO LEAST DEPTH 34FT. (FOIC YARMOUTH, 14.11.42). INS AS WK 5FMS 4FT.

- NM 2595/42. H03402/42 23.8.49 SWEPT BY OROPESA CLEAR AT 49FT. IN 530556N, 012428E. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 1949). AMEND TO WK 8FMS 1FT.

- NM 1716/49. 8.3.72 AMEND TO WK 14.6MTRS. NC 105. HH090/524/01 2.1.92 EXAM'D 28.7.91 IN 530556.5N, 012422.3E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. SWEPT CLEAR AT 20.6, FOUL AT 20.7MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 20.6 IN GEN DEPTH 22MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 0.5MTR. DCS3 HT 0.5MTR, LENGTH 86MTRS, WIDTH 14MTRS. LIES 028/208 DEG. (LAND & MARINE, HI 531). BR STD. SEP 2018/000159338 10.7.18 EXAM'D 30.3.18 IN 5305.941N, 0124.246E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 19.59MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 22MTRS, LENGTH 65.5MTRS, WIDTH 16.8MTRS, HEIGHT 2.7MTRS, ORIENTATION 024/204 DEGS. BROKEN AND PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE, HI 1515_H102_002_18). AMEND DW 19.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN. SEP 2018/000212985 4.9.18 EXAM'D 30.3.18 IN 5305.941N, 0124.246E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 19.85MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 22MTRS, LENGTH 65.5MTRS, WIDTH 16.8MTRS, HEIGHT 2.7MTRS, ORIENTATION 024/204 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 97MTRS, 1.2MTRS DEEP, TOWARD 027 DEGS. BROKEN AND PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE, HI 1515). AMEND DW 19.8MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 5.941 N,1 24.246 E

 

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