This is the information page about the shipwreck La fidele, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 48.549 N,1 25.859 W (50.0916, -1.1892)

 

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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.

 

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Name: LA FIDELE

Length 43.6 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 2.7, tonnage 626 ton

Cause: employed in controlled disposal of elderly explosives by detonation in water in charted dumping ground. carrying 1400 underwater grenades (some 600kg of explosives). grenades were primed prior to dropping into the water. explosion occured and the vessel sank. two killed and three missing.

Year of registration: 1997

Water depth above wreck: 76 meter

Known since: 1997, last detected: 2017

Details measurements/cartography: HH226/410/03 15.5.97 VESSEL BLEW UP AND SANK OFF CHERBOURG. (LL, 2.5.97). HH226/410/03 15.5.97 UNDERWATER OPERATIONS FORBIDDEN WITH 1M OF 494800N, 012600W [EUR]. (AVURNAV LOCAL CHERBOURG 1137/97). PRESUMED TO BE 'LA FIDELE'. AWAIT FURTHER, NCA YET. HH226/410/03 2.6.97 NAVIGATION AND UNDERWATER OPERATIONS FORBIDDEN WITHIN 1.5M RADIUS OF DANGEROUS WRECK IN 494800N, 012600W. (FRENCH NM 97 20T 05). INS RESTRICTED AREA. - 'T' NOTICE. HH226/410/03 4.7.97 WK 64MTRS IN 494836.5N, 012547W [EUR]. (FRENCH NM 97 25 16). INS AS WK 64MTRS AND ASSUME 'T' NOTICE STILL EXTANT.

- NM 2746/97. 11.3.98 WK IS UPRIGHT AND IN ONE PIECE. NOTED AS 'LIMITED DIFFUSION'. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1998). AMENDED TO RESTRICTED - COMMERCIAL. 27.4.99 POSN 4948.609N, 0125.779W [EUR]. POSN BY GPS. ACCURACY 10MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1999). HH226/410/05 13.3.01 RESTRICTED AREA RADIUS 1.5 MILES CENTRED ON 4948.61N, 0125.78W [EUR]. ENTRY PROHIBITED. (FRENCH NM 01 07 19).

- NM 1564/01. HH226/410/06 2.1.02 NOW WK 64MTRS IN 4948.61N, 0125.78W [EUR]. (FRENCH NM 01 50 22). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT & INTACT

Position: 49 48.549 N,1 25.859 W

 

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