This is the information page about the shipwreck Primula (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 57 22.193 N,1 57.193 E (57.6538, 11.278133333333)

 

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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. Altair
2. Berthe
3. C f liljevalch (possibly)
4. Dorethea
5. Dorothea
6. Drott vy 45
7. Frank dalgaard
8. Freja
9. Frigga
10. Gunhild
11. Hamm
12. Herkules
13. Ida
14. Ingomar
15. Janson
16. Kongshavn
17. Lacho
18. Lise katrine
19. Lyngskaer (possibly)
20. Lyudvik svoboda (aft part)
21. Melissa
22. Mitzi
23. Mona mette
24. Nieman
25. Nordlyset
26. Oranienborg
27. Ormen
28. Pollux
29. Primula (possibly)
30. Rikkie-line
31. Rygja
32. Saltskar (probably)
33. Signe
34. Vellamo
35. War path (possibly)
36. Winnie rita

 

Name: PRIMULA (POSSIBLY)

Length 66.1 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1024 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: torpedoed and sunk by u 31 while on passage oslo to england. (axis sub successes, dod). mined. (ww2sl; lloyds war losses).

Year of registration: 1939

Water depth above wreck: 90 meter, Height above seabed: 55 cm

Known since: 1939, last detected: 2016

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK ABOUT 120 MILES E OF STONEHAVEN. (DODS). POSN 571500N, 015000E, APPROX. (WW2SL). 13.5.76 INS AS NDWPA IN 571500N, 015000E. NC 274. HH160/350/02 4.2.92 WK LOCATED IN 572214N, 015717E [EUR] USING PULSE/8. LENGTH 65MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS. DCS3 HT 6MTRS APPROX. LIES 055/235 DEG. (BP EXPLORATION OPERATING CO. LTD., 13.1.92). AMEND TO USC 80MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 14.1.04 RECORD REVIEWED. AMEND WK 83MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 57 22.193 N,1 57.193 E

 

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