This is the information page about the shipwreck Otis tarda, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 38.025 N,2 10.481 E (52.7504, 2.0371)

 

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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. Abeona
2. Activity
3. Atle
4. Avonwood
5. Begona no 5
6. Blacktoft (possibly)
7. Bovey tracy
8. Boy karl
9. Burtonia (possibly)
10. City of kobe
11. Claudia (possibly)
12. Corbrook
13. Cormead
14. Crichtoun
15. Cross sand ltv
16. El dorado
17. Eleni v (bow section)
18. English trader
19. Excellenz mehnert
20. Fidelio
21. Frumenton
22. Galatea (possibly)
23. Gasfire
24. George fisher
25. Girl linda
26. Glen tilt (possibly)
27. Glynn
28. Goodwood (possibly)
29. Groenlo
30. Gulf breaker
31. H h petersen
32. Hamsterley
33. Helena
34. Hms bracklyn (possibly)
35. Hms evesham (possibly)
36. Hms exmoor
37. Hms fontenoy
38. Hms glen prosen
39. Hms ocean plough (possibly)
40. Hms pelton (probably)
41. Hms speeton (possibly)
42. Hms tettenhall
43. Hmsm d5
44. Horseferry (probably)
45. Ionian (probably)
46. Kentwood (probably)
47. Knitsley (part of)(probably)
48. Knitsley (possibly)
49. Langeli (possibly)
50. Leopold ii
51. Liliane (possibly)
52. Lindisfarne (probably)
53. Lingfield
54. Maria rosa
55. Mascota (possibly)
56. Memento (possibly)
57. Merchant
58. Mirella
59. Navarra (possibly)
60. Nereus
61. Newland (possibly)
62. Nordborg (possibly)
63. Noreen
64. Oil trader
65. Onto
66. Otis tarda
67. Philipp m
68. Pluton
69. Prosper
70. Quest
71. Ren
72. Robin iv
73. Robrix
74. Rogate
75. Rokos vergottis
76. Rye
77. Scotia
78. Sea rhine
79. Silksworth hall (probably).
80. Skodsburg (possibly)
81. Stad alkmaar
82. Stanmount
83. Strive
84. Taber park
85. Togston
86. Tregantle (possibly)
87. Trevethoe
88. U 13 (probably)
89. Vanguard
90. Vigia
91. Virgilia
92. Waldinge
93. War mehtar
94. Waterloo
95. Yewvalley (possibly)

 

Name: OTIS TARDA

Length 61.3 meter, width: 8.5 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 759 ton

Cause: Mined.

Year of registration: 1916

Water depth above wreck: 39 meter, Height above seabed: 63 cm

Known since: 1916, last detected: 20170316

Details measurements/cartography: H4282/26 14.10.26 INS AS DW(1916)(PA). H335/31 14.1.31 AMEND TO DW (PA). H1005/42 21.3.42 AMEND TO NDWPA ON WK CHARTS. DELETE FROM NAVIGATIONAL CHARTS.

- NM 619/42. H3730/69 19.9.69 NOT FOUND IN GENERAL SONAR SEARCH. NO EXTENSIVE SEARCH MADE. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 47/69). DELETED. 21.11.72 SHOWN IN 523828N, 0210030 [EUR] ON NETHERLANDS FISHERIES 1954 [REC'D 7.11.72]. HH090/611/01 24.10.94 LOCATED 8.7.94 IN 523759.97N, 021035.50E [OGB] USING SYLEDS [3 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 32.3, FOUL 32.8MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 33.0 IN GEN DEPTH 39.0MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 4-5MTRS. DCS3 HT 5.5MTRS. LENGTH 70MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS. LIES 050/230 DEGS. INTACT AND UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 616).

- NM 3901/94. SEP 2017/000067039 7.8.17 EXAM'D 16.3.17 IN 5238.025N, 0210.481E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 33.65MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 39MTRS, LENGTH 59.8MTRS, WIDTH 10.5MTRS, HEIGHT 7.5MTRS, ORIENTATION 063/243 DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 145.5MTRS, 7.1MTRS DEEP, TOWARDS 002 DEGS. WRECK IS LARGELY INTACT AND PARTIALLY BURIED. (GARDLINE, HI 1516). AMEND NDW 33MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 38.025 N,2 10.481 E

 

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