This is the information page about the shipwreck Lst 420 (bow section), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 15.033 N,2 41.799 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. Bourrasque
9. Bowsprite (bow section)
10. Bowsprite (bow section)
11. Bramden (possibly)
12. Clan macalister
13. Clan macneil (possibly)
14. Cmb 1
15. Cmb 71a
16. Croxteth hall
17. Dageraad
18. Dawdon
19. De wandilaar
20. Dortmund
21. Douaisien (possibly)
22. Emeraude
23. Empire path
24. Etendard
25. Fl5
26. Floride (probably)
27. G 96
28. Gold shell
29. Heinkel 111
30. Hm motor launch 561
31. Hms basilisk
32. Hms brilliant
33. Hms colsay
34. Hms gracie fields
35. Hms grafton
36. Hms grafton
37. Hms hayburn wyke
38. Hms keith
39. Hms plumpton (probably)
40. Hms polly johnson
41. Hms sirius
42. Hms skipjack
43. Hms st abbs
44. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
45. Hms wakeful
46. Hms waverley
47. Hms whitley
48. Hoop op vrede (n 741)
49. Horst
50. John mahn
51. Kap arkona
52. Kestrel
53. Keulse vaart iv
54. Kilmore
55. Laura
56. Lct(r) 457
57. Lorina
58. Lorina (possibly)
59. Lst 420 (bow section)
60. Lst 420 (stern section)
61. Lucy jenny ii
62. M 3610
63. Marie
64. Mariner (possibly)
65. Maurice
66. Mona's queen
67. Mont louis
68. Msc alyssa
69. Nashaba
70. Nautica ena
71. P 319
72. Putten
73. Queen of the channel (possibly)
74. Quo vadis
75. Ra.2 (possibly)
76. Rita
77. Robert l vann
78. Robert-clara
79. S 168
80. S 220
81. S.192 (possibly)
82. Sabrina
83. Saint therese de jesus
84. Sampa
85. Sea hunter
86. Senator holthusen
87. Senator sthamer
88. Sigurds faulbaums
89. Sperrbrecher 170 (probably)
90. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
91. St fagan
92. Sterre der zee
93. Torpilleur branlebas
94. Tringa
95. U 11
96. Ub 13
97. Ub29
98. Uc 1
99. V 201 (possibly)
100. Vlaanderen (probably)
101. West-hinder
102. Wielingen ii (possibly)
103. Wielingen ltv
104. Wolf
105. Zeester

 

Name: LST 420 (BOW SECTION)

Length 99.7 meter, width: 15.2 meter, draught: 2.7, tonnage 1625 ton

Cause: mined. (ww2sl).

Year of registration: 1969

Water depth above wreck: 10 meter

Known since: 1969, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H6408/59 INS DW IN 511500N, 024158E, WITH G CON BUOY GP.FL(3)15S CLOSE SW. (OSTENDE NM). - 1629/69. H6408/59 SW 4.1MTRS IN 511504N, 024200E [EUR]. (OSTEND NM 20/155/69). AMEND SW 2FMS 3FT, WITH BUOY CLOSE SW.

- NM 1679/69. H3280/66 2.2.71 SHOWN AS SW 4.7 MTRS ON BELGIAN SURVEY - M 5889/ME. BR STD. H1310/83/8 2.2.83 DIVED ON IN 1982. APPARENTLY STEEL VESSEL, POSSIBLY A COASTER, LYING UPSIDE DOWN. (J COULON, 8.1.83). H1310/88/25 4.5.88 THOUGHT TO BE A GERMAN MINESWEEPER. (P FABIEN, 2.4.88). H1310/88/18 8.8.88 IDENTIFIED AS SPERRBRECKER 143. (J COULON, 15.3.88). H2731/85 14.10.88 NOW SW 7MTRS IN 511505N, 024153E [EUR]. (OOSTENDE NM 117/88).

- NM 3420/88. HH342/350/01 5.12.90 POSN NOW FOUL. (OSTEND NM 140/90). BR STD. HH100/351/04 28.3.91 THIS WK WAS REMOVED DURING SUMMER 1990 AND FOUND TO HAVE BEEN THE BOW SECTION OF LST 420. (J COULON, 11.3.91). SEP 2010/000138707 18.10.10 SHOWN IN 5115.033N, 0241.799E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 102 [NE 1.6.10, 1:60,000].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: WK LIFTED, REMAINING DEBRIS

Position: 51 15.033 N,2 41.799 E

 

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