This is the information page about the shipwreck Kap arkona, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 22.034 N,2 43.537 E (51.1325, 2.5103666666667)

 

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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. A 10 (possibly)
2. A-15 (possibly)
3. Aloha
4. Anton hammerbacher
5. Apache
6. Ardmount
7. Auretta
8. Birkenfels
9. Bourrasque
10. Bowsprite (bow section)
11. Bowsprite (bow section)
12. Bramden (possibly)
13. Breda
14. Clan macalister
15. Clan macneil (possibly)
16. Cmb 1
17. Cmb 71a
18. Croxteth hall
19. Dageraad
20. Dawdon
21. De wandilaar
22. Dortmund
23. Douaisien (possibly)
24. Emeraude
25. Empire path
26. Etendard
27. Fl5
28. Francis asbury
29. G 96
30. Gold shell
31. Harpalyce
32. Heinkel 111
33. Hm motor launch 561
34. Hms basilisk
35. Hms brilliant
36. Hms colsay
37. Hms gracie fields
38. Hms grafton
39. Hms grafton
40. Hms hayburn wyke
41. Hms keith
42. Hms plumpton (probably)
43. Hms polly johnson
44. Hms sirius
45. Hms skipjack
46. Hms st abbs
47. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
48. Hms wakeful
49. Hms waverley
50. Hms whitley
51. Hoop op vrede (n 741)
52. Horst
53. John mahn
54. Kap arkona
55. Kestrel
56. Keulse vaart iv
57. Kilmore
58. Laura
59. Lct(r) 457
60. Lorina
61. Lorina (possibly)
62. Lst 420 (bow section)
63. Lst 420 (stern section)
64. Lucy jenny ii
65. M 3610
66. Marie
67. Marie
68. Mariner (possibly)
69. Maurice
70. Mont louis
71. Msc alyssa
72. Mts vector
73. Nashaba
74. Nautica ena
75. Neutron
76. Normandie
77. P 319
78. Putten
79. Queen of the channel (possibly)
80. Quo vadis
81. Ra.2 (possibly)
82. Rijnstroom
83. Rita
84. Robert l vann
85. Robert-clara
86. S 168
87. S 220
88. S.192 (possibly)
89. Sabrina
90. Saint therese de jesus
91. Sampa
92. Sea hunter
93. Senator holthusen
94. Senator sthamer
95. Sigurds faulbaums
96. Sperrbrecher 170 (probably)
97. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
98. Sterre der zee
99. Torpilleur branlebas
100. Tringa
101. U 11
102. Ub 13
103. Ub29
104. Uc 1
105. Vlaanderen (probably)
106. West-hinder
107. Wielingen ii (possibly)
108. Wielingen ltv
109. Wolf
110. Zeester

 

Name: KAP ARKONA

Length 98.1 meter, width: 13.4 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 1838 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1946 by kochums, malmo. owned at time of loss by deutsche seereederei. sank following a collision with m tanker ida knudsen. passage antwerp for lattakia. all crew recovered.

Year of registration: 1964

Water depth above wreck: 17 meter

Known since: 1964, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H1125/64 1.4.64 WK 6.4 MTRS IN 512203N, 024344E [EUR]. G CON LT BUOY, GPFL(3)G.10S CLOSE N. (OSTEND NM 2/36/64 & 3/48/64).

- NM 640/64. H1125/64 2.4.64 SANK IN POSN APPROX 3M E OF WEST HINDER. (LLOYDS). H1125/64 16.4.64 AMEND TO WK 2.7 MTRS. (OSTEND NM 7/83/64, HAGUE NM 886/64). AMEND TO WK 1FM 3FT. - NM 765/64. H1125/64 29.1.65 OWNERS VEB DEUTSCHE SEEREEDEREI STATE THAT THEY HAVE ABANDONED THE WK. (LLOYDS). H1125/64 2.7.65 AMEND TO SW 8.8 MTRS. (OSTEND NM 11/91/65). H1125/64 6.10.66 AMEND TO SW 14.9 MTRS & DELETE LT BY. (OSTEND NM 20/174/66). AMEND TO SW 4FMS 5FT, DELETE BUOY.

- NM 1884/66. 12.1.73 AMEND TO SW 15.0MTRS. NC 125. H4029/63 23.1.84 SWEPT CLEAR AT 16.5MTRS IN 512205N, 024337E [EUR]. (OSTENDE NM 135/83). BR STD. HH342/710/07 31.10.02 WK CLEARED. POSN NOW FOUL. (BELGIAN NM 22/134/02).

- NM 306/03. 15.10.03 SHOWN AS FOUL USC 22MTRS IN 5122.03N, 0243.54E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 102 [INT 1480] [2002 EDN, ADOPTION]. NE 1873. 12.5.04 SHOWN AS F IN 5122.030N, 0243.540E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 101 [INT 1474] [SEP'03 EDN, ADOPTION]. NE 1874. SEP 2010/000138707 14.10.10 SHOWN IN 5122.034N, 0243.537E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 102 [NE 6.2010].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 22.034 N,2 43.537 E

 

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