This is the information page about the shipwreck Midnight sun i, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 35.974 N,5 0.103 W (48.304416666667, -4.8459166666667)

 

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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: MIDNIGHT SUN I

Length 89.6 meter, width: 16.2 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 2531 ton
Load: minerals,stone

Cause: built 1981. owned at time of loss by sea conveyor, s.a. passage ferrol for ghent. reported taking in water in no.2 hold. later capsized & sank in heavy seas about 8m nne of ushant. (msd).

Year of registration: 1984

Water depth above wreck: 95 meter

Known since: 1984, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: H3774/81 5.6.84 SANK IN 483600N, 050000W. (LL, 8.2.84). INS AS WK USC PA 33FMS. BR STD. 24.2.88 NOT SHOWN ON FRENCH 7067 [1987] OR LISTED IN FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987. H3774/81 26.10.88 WK, EST'D LEAST DEPTH 33MTRS, IN APPROX 483600N, 050000W [EUR]. (BREST NM 88 39 14). NCA. 24.2.88 AMEND TO WK USC PA 60MTRS. NC 2644. 30.3.90 NAME GIVEN AS 'MIDNIGHT SUN I' IN 483600N, 050000W [EUR]. POSN ACCURACY 1M [=PA]. WK USC 33MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 98MTRS. SOURCE UKHO. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1990). NCA. FRENCH HAVE NOT CONVERTED 33FMS TO 60MTRS. 22.7.93 SHOWN AS WK USC PA 33MTRS ON FRENCH 6989 [1992 EDN]. NCA. 21.11.94 SHOWN AS WK USC PA 33MTRS ON FRENCH 7311 [1994 EDN]. NCA, SEE ABOVE DETAILS REFERENCE FMS/MTRS. SEP 2008/000048875 9.9.08 SHOWN AS WK USC PA 33MTRS ON FRENCH 7076 [1ST EDN 2008, 1:350,000]. SHOWN AS WK USC PD 33MTRS ON FRENCH 6680 [3RD EDN 2003, 1:150,000]. SEE ABOVE, E-MAIL SENT TO SHOM. NCA. SEP 2008/000088642 3.11.08 FRENCH NM 45/06/08 ISSUED TO CORRECT FRENCH CHARTS TO UNSURVEYED CLEARANCE DEPTH 60MTRS. (OLIVIER PARVILLERS, SHOM, E-MAIL DTD 3.11.08) BA CHARTS CORRECT. NCA. SEP 2008/000092924 20.11.08 AMEND DEPTH FROM 33MTRS TO 60MTRS. (FRENCH NM 45/06/08). AS NOTED ABOVE. NCA. 3.3.09 SHOWN IN 4836.940N, 0500.090W [WGD] ON FRENCH 6680 [3RD EDN 2003, CORRECT TO NM 42 29 08, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. INS AS WK USC PD 60MTRS. NC 2647. SEP 2009000084718 25.11.09 SHOWN IN 4835.974N, 0500.103W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7066 [INT 1800] [3RD EDN 2006 CORRECT TO 25-37-09, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE]. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 48 35.974 N,5 0.103 W

 

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