This is the information page about the shipwreck Oost vlaanderen, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 26.353 N,2 29.87 W (49.465666666667, -2.6346666666667)

 

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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. Agenoria
2. Agrion
3. Ambassadrice
4. Amiable lucitte
5. Antoinette
6. Armas
7. Auguste and louise
8. Beauport
9. Belfort
10. Bess mitchell
11. Bizon (possibly)
12. Bizon (probably)
13. Bonafide
14. Brighton
15. Briseis
16. Buchanness
17. Buzuzlo (ex weston)
18. Capri
19. Captain niko
20. Carrouest one (possibly)
21. Channel queen
22. Charles
23. Cid
24. Clarrie
25. Constantia s (fwd part)
26. Corail
27. Cornelia
28. Dagenham
29. Dambuster
30. Dora
31. Dr rudolf wahrendorff
32. Dromore
33. Dunsinane
34. Echo
35. Edirne
36. Ella
37. Emily eveson
38. Evasion
39. Fermain
40. Figaro
41. Ford power
42. Foreland
43. Forth
44. Goureux
45. Grandest
46. Guyona
47. Helge (possibly)
48. Helge (possibly)
49. Heron
50. Hms dragon
51. Hms viper
52. Hopper
53. Ida (ex abbey town)
54. Jeanne marie
55. Jesmond
56. Josef joham (stern half) (probably)
57. Joseph and margaret
58. Juene marie
59. Jules
60. Kromwyk
61. La havre
62. La salle
63. Le nord
64. Le poilu
65. Le squale
66. Leastilien
67. Linn o dee (or linn o dec)
68. Louise
69. M 483
70. Mako
71. Marie galante
72. Marie mashman
73. Mary toovey
74. Matelda
75. Ocean queen
76. Oost vlaanderen
77. Orphee
78. Peras
79. Petite anna
80. Point law
81. Prima
82. Prosperity (stern section)
83. Rabbi
84. Raffio
85. Rap
86. Rhenania
87. Rontegui
88. Rossgull
89. Saint louis
90. San nicolau
91. Schelde
92. Seydlitz (possibly)
93. Silvonia
94. St louie
95. St malo (possibly)
96. Stella (probably)
97. Susan k
98. To venner
99. Tyne
100. Uc 18
101. Ullyses
102. Vedanta
103. Victorine
104. Ville de malaga
105. Voorwaarts
106. Waverley
107. Wear
108. Western belle
109. Yorouba

 

Name: OOST VLAANDEREN

Length 45.4 meter, width: 7.9 meter, draught: 2.7, tonnage 421 ton
Load: cement,armament

Cause: built in 1931 e j smit & zonen,westerbroek. owned at time of loss by t de hartigh. oil engine, single shaft. sunk by whirlwind bomber (serial p7040) of no 263 sqn, raf. (air clues, jan '81).

Year of registration: 1970

Water depth above wreck: 25 meter, Height above seabed: 15 cm

Known since: 1970, last detected: 20150729

Details measurements/cartography: H4647/68 17.12.70 EXAMINED IN 492624N, 022947W [EUR] USING HSA. SWEPT CLEAR 57FT, FOUL 58FT. LEAST E/S DEPTH 58FT IN GEN DEPTH 14FMS. SCOUR DEPTH 60FT. LIES 020/200DEGS. HIGHEST POINT CLOSE TO N END. (FSL MEDINA).

- NM 47/71. H1287/75 10.9.75 REPORTED TO BE IN 492620N, 022955E. DIVED ON BY READING BRANCH OF BSAC ON 4 & 7.8.75. TIME OF DIVE 3-3.5HOURS BEFORE HW AT ST HELIER. ON BOTH OCCASIONS DEPTH FOUND TO BE 30MTRS TO A FINE SHINGLE/COARSE SAND SEABED. HIGHEST POINT OF WK WAS ESTIMATED AS 10MTRS ABOVE SEABED. WK APPEARED TO BE A SMALL COASTER ABOUT 50MTRS IN LENGTH, 10MTRS WIDTH. LYING UPRIGHT ON A FLAT SEABED. BOWS SLIGHTLY TWISTED BUT NOT VISIBLY HOLED. A SINGLE MAST/DERRICK LIES ALONG CENTRELINE OF THE WK OVER ONE HOLD. PROPELLER MISSING. HULL SOUND. STRANGE OBJECTS ABOUT 400MM LONG, 250MM DIAMETER, CYLINDRICAL METAL WITH FOUR RODS PROJECTING IN CROSS FORMATION AT ONE END, SEEN AND GIVEN WIDE BERTH BY DIVERS. (J H SIMMONS, 4.9.75). THIS WK AND THE ONE IN 492630N, 023130W [23243] MAY BE ONE & THE SAME. H3635/71 10.9.79 KNOWN LOCALLY AS 'CEMENT WK' BECAUSE OF CARGO. THOUGHT TO BE DUTCH SHIP 'OOST VLAANDEREN'. COMPARISON WITH PHOTOGRAPH OF SHIP SEEMS TO SUPPORT THIS, AS DO LENGTH & BEAM MEASUREMENTS. VIRTUALLY INTACT. (M G SHEAN, SEVERNSIDE BSAC, 6.8.79) H1310/80/40 19.11.80 CONFIRMED AS 'OOST VLAANDEREN', HEIGHT ABOVE SEABED 8MTRS. STRANGE OBJECTS REPD ABOVE ARE SCALLOP DREDGES. QUANTITY OF 37MM AMMO FOUND IN DANGEROUS CONDITION. (FULL REPORT BY RAF SUB AQUA EXPEDITION IN JUL '80 REFERS). 12.1.99 SANK IN ONE PIECE, LIES UPRIGHT. COVERED IN MARINE LIFE & HOME TO LOBSTERS AND CONGER EELS. (DIVE MAGAZINE JAN '99) 13.5.04 [WGD] POSN: 4926.345N, 0229.863W. NE 807. SEP 2014/000130511 14.10.14 SHOWN AS WK 19.3MTRS ON GUERNSEY WATER SURVEY (DTD 3.3.14 - 15.3.14). AMEND WK 19.3MTRS. 16.2.15 DEPTH SHOWN IN GUERNSEY WATER SURVEY NOT CONSIDERED TO BE THE LEAST DEPTH. RETAIN PREVIOUS DEPTH. (A WINTERBOTTOM, BDC). AMEND SW 16.5MTRS. BANM 3949/15. SEP 2015/000230440 19.11.15 EXAM'D 29.06.15, IN 4926.353N, 0229.869W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 18.1MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 25MTRS. LENGTH 48MTRS, WIDTH 9MTRS, HT 7.0MTRS. OREINTATION 015/195 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 580MTRS, DEPTH 1.9MTRS, ORIENTATION 003 DEGS. (HMSML GLEANER SNT02/15). AMEND TO DW 18.1MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT & INTACT.

Position: 49 26.353 N,2 29.87 W

 

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