This is the information page about the shipwreck Luxembourg (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 11.115 N,5 40.273 W (50.27365, -5.4894666666667)

 

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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. Acklington
2. Aida lauro
3. Alacrity
4. Alden gifford (possibly)
5. Alster (possibly)
6. Antwerpen
7. Arbel (probably)
8. Arnside (possibly)
9. Asia
10. Aud
11. Austria (possibly)
12. Balbec
13. Bard (possibly)
14. Besse (probably)
15. Bessemer city (probably)
16. Bill (part of)(possibly)
17. Bill (possibly)
18. Bolette (possibly)
19. Boynton (possibly)
20. Busby
21. Cheerful
22. Chimu
23. Christina
24. Christos markettos
25. City of cardiff
26. City of westminster (& kul)
27. Clan macnab
28. Congener
29. Conqueror
30. Corvus
31. Courtown
32. Dageid
33. Denebola
34. Depois
35. Devon
36. Dunaskin
37. Dundee (probably)
38. Dux (possibly)
39. Emblem
40. Empire flamingo (for'd section)
41. Empire kingsley
42. Enrico parodi
43. Facto
44. Fanny lambert
45. Gallier (possibly)
46. Garthclyde (possibly)
47. Gemini
48. Geopotes viii
49. Glamorgan coast
50. Glendale
51. Gleno
52. Hampshire
53. Helene (probably)
54. Hellopes
55. Hms royalo
56. Hms warspite
57. Hms warspite (part of)
58. Hmy viva 2
59. Holland xix
60. Hopeful (possibly)
61. Iona
62. J duncan
63. Jose de aramburu
64. Joshua nicholson
65. Juan ferrer
66. Juanita
67. Kate thomas (possibly)
68. Kildonan ?
69. Kilmaho
70. Kintuck
71. Lake grafton
72. Lake grafton (possibly)
73. Liberty
74. Lincoln
75. Luna
76. Lutece (part of)(possibly)
77. Luxembourg (probably)
78. Lyminge
79. Madeline
80. Maria de larrinaga
81. Marie roberts
82. Maroc
83. Moorview
84. Mystique (possibly)
85. Nanna (possibly)
86. New pioneer
87. Nile
88. Noya (possibly)
89. Ocean harvest
90. Orion
91. Oriskany
92. Pacific reliance
93. Phoenix 202
94. Phoenix 203
95. Pioneer (possibly)
96. Polesley (possibly)
97. Ponthieu
98. Primo ?
99. Primrose (remains of)(possibly)
100. Regency (probably)
101. Reidar (possibly)
102. Rms mulheim
103. Saint guenole
104. Saxon briton
105. Sea viper
106. Setubel(probably)
107. Sirius (possibly)
108. St chamond
109. St george
110. Stabil (possibly)
111. Sten (possibly)
112. Sylvia-mary z-525
113. Thorsa (part of)(possibly)
114. Traute sarnow
115. Tungufoss
116. Tyrhaug
117. U 1209 (possibly)
118. U 247 (possibly)
119. U 399
120. Umbre
121. Underwood
122. Union crystal (possibly)
123. Union star (parts of)(probably)
124. Veghtstroom (possibly)
125. Vesuvius
126. Vigrid (possibly)
127. Vine branch (possibly)
128. Vinovia
129. War baron (probably)
130. Wild boar
131. William cory
132. Yewcroft
133. Zone (probably)

 

Name: LUXEMBOURG (PROBABLY)

Length 71.6 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1417 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,personnel

Cause: built in 1910 by clyde shipbuilding & engineering co ltd, port glasgow. owned at time of loss by leith, hull and hamburg steam packet co. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 142 nhp, single shaft. machinery by the builders. passage le havre for newport. struck mine fwd and sank. crew recovered by ss celte. (sibi).

Year of registration: 2009

Water depth above wreck: 30 meter

Known since: 2009

Details measurements/cartography: SEP 2009/000188817 14.12.09 DIVED 3.8.09 IN 5011.115N, 0540.273W [WGD] USING GPS. ESTIMATED LENGTH 80MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. STANDS 3MTRS HIGH BY E/S AND MEASUREMENT. WK RETAINS OVERALL SHAPE BUT IS COLLAPSED TO A GENERAL HT OF 1MTR ABOVE SEABED. ENGINE, DRIVE SHAFT AND 4 BLADED PROP ALL CORRECTLY ALIGNED. STEERING QUADRANT UPRIGHT. MAIN BOILER ALONGSIDE WK IS THE HIGHEST POINT AND HAS A SMALLER BOILER ATTACHED TO IT, POSSIBLY A DONKEY BOILER. CONSIDERED TO BE LUXEMBOURG AS VESSEL WAS CONFIRMED BY DEPT OF TRANSPORT AS CARRING USED 18PDR CARTRIDGE CASES FROM THE WESTERN FRONT. A NUMBER OF THESE EMPTY CASES ARE SCATTERED AROUND THE WK. THE REMAINDER WERE SALVAGED IN THE 1970S/80S. (G J LOCKETT, REPORT DTD 13.8.09). INS AS NDW. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, COLLAPSED, DIMENSIONS BY DIVER

Position: 50 11.115 N,5 40.273 W

 

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