This is the information page about the shipwreck Oriflamme, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 33.237 N,1 17.87 W (50.553950, -1.297833)

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.

Name: ORIFLAMME

Length 102.4 meter, width: 13.7 meter, tonnage 3764 ton
Load: chemicals

Cause: built in 1899 by armstrong-whitworth & co, newcastle-upon-tyne. owned at time of loss by oriflamme ss co ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 284nhp, single shaft. passage new youk for le havre. cargo benzine. struck mine laid by uc-63. no men lost.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 37 meter, Height above seabed: 40 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2010

Details measurements/cartography: H4410/18 12.8.18 SUNK IN 503355N, 011732. (RANLECH). CHART AS WK [OLD SYMBOL].

- NM 958/18. H3287/24 12.5.24 DELETED. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H1098/37 8.3.37 NOW CHARTED AS NDW PA ON F016. 25.3.41 NOW CHARTED AS NDW PA ON NC 2012. 28.1.74 28.1.74 NOW CHARTED AS USC PA 15MTRS ON NC 2045. H1285/75 1.7.75 WRECK LOCATED IN 503312N, 011748W USING DECCA. ASSUMED TO BE THE SAME AS REPORTED IN 1918 BY RANLECH [ABOVE]. WRECK LIES NE/SW APPROX 40FT HIGH IN GEN DEPTH 100FT. SCOUR TO 120FT. LARGE WRECK ABOUT 400FT LONG & 50FT ACROSS, COULD BE MISTAKEN FOR A RIDGE OF ROCK ON ECHO SOUNDER. (R TODD, SPITHEAD MARINE SALVAGE CO., 27.6.75). CHART AS WK 18MTRS [10FMS] IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. H2318/74 31.12.75 EXAM'D 29.7.75 IN 503311N, 011748W USING HSA & DECCA. SWEPT CLEAR AT 25.0MTRS, FOUL AT 25.6MTRS. LEAST E/S 25.2MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 33.0MTRS. SCOUR 42MTRS. SEA BED IS FINE & MEDIUM SAND. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM MR R J TODD, SPITHEAD MARINE SALVAGE CO: WRECK IS A TANKER, POSSIBLY THE 'ORIFLAMME'. LIES ON HER PORT SIDE, BOW NE. HIGHEST POINT FOUND BY E/S LIES CLOSE TO THE STERN [SW END]. LENGTH BY E/S APPROX 350FT. A ROCKY OUTCROP RISING TO A REDUCED DEPTH OF 20.0MTRS LIES ABOUT 100DEGS, 350MTRS FROM THE WRECK. (SCES, DTD 10.12.75). AMEND TO SW 25MTRS. BR STD. HH090/962/01 3.12.02 EXAM'D 8.9.02 IN 5033.237N, 0117.870W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 26.5 IN GEN DEPTH 37MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 83MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. DCS3 HT 10MTRS. LIES 040/220 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. HULL BROKEN. (GARDLINE, HI 962). AMEND TO WK 26.5MTRS. BR STD. 2.2.07 HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY RECOVERED ENGINE BUILDER'S PLATE. (D C WENDES, SOUTH COAST SHIPWRECKS). NCA. SEP 2010/000090029 7.6.10 LOCATED IN 5033.237N, 0117.870W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 27.4MTRS. LENGTH 95MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS, HT 10MTRS. (NATURAL ENGLAND, SOUTH WIGHT EUROPEAN MARINE SITE SURVEY (NETSURVEY)). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, ON PORT SIDE, BOWS NE

Position: 50 33.237 N,1 17.87 W

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