This is the information page about the shipwreck Prinses astrid, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 3.739 N,2 12.708 E (51.1325, 2.5103667)

 

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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. Brighton
2. British liberty (possibly)
3. Bruno heinemann (z.8)
4. Clan macalister
5. Clan macneil (possibly)
6. Douaisien (possibly)
7. Estafette
8. Etendard
9. Fennella
10. Floride (probably)
11. Foudroyant
12. Foudroyant (possibly)
13. Ganko
14. Hms blackburn rovers (possibly)
15. Hms brighton queen
16. Hms grenade
17. Hms keith
18. Hms king orry
19. Hms redcar
20. Hms skipjack
21. Hms st abbs
22. Hms thuringia (possibly)
23. Hms westella
24. Horst
25. Jaguar
26. Jean pierre et phillipe
27. Jonrix
28. Kestrel
29. L'urtiga (possibly)
30. Le copain d'abord
31. Lorina
32. Lorina (possibly)
33. Lst 364 (probably)
34. M 3630 (possibly)
35. Madimba (probably)
36. Mariner (possibly)
37. Marthe
38. Melrose
39. Mona's queen
40. Neerlandais
41. Noroit
42. Okeania
43. Paris (possibly)
44. Pavon
45. Port nicholson (probably)
46. Portrieux
47. Prinses astrid
48. R.93 (possibly)
49. Sabrina
50. Saint camille
51. St fagan
52. St pierre (aft section)
53. St pierre (fore portion)
54. Sterre der zee
55. Toquet
56. Trifels
57. Tringa
58. Uc 63
59. V 201 (possibly)
60. Vlaanderen (probably)
61. Western farmer (bow section)
62. Wielingen ii (possibly)
63. Wolf
64. Zeester

 

Name: PRINSES ASTRID

Length 105.8 meter, width: 14 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 2950 ton

Cause: Built in 1931 by soc anon john cockerell. owned at time of loss by belgian state railways. turbine engines of 2779nhp for 23 knots. a cross-channel ferry. struck a mine in a shallow channel. was then run on to a sandbank allowing passengers and crew to disembark before sinking. no lives lost. (dods).

Year of registration: 1949

Water depth above wreck: 8 meter, Height above seabed: 60 cm

Known since: 1949, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: H3660/49 28.9.49 ST IN 510345N, 021245E. FUNNELS, MAST & BRIDGE SHOW.(MESSAGE 6.7.49).

- NM 2110/49. H2436/64 9.2.65 SHOWN AS WK 6.3MTRS IN 510344N, 021250E ON FRENCH 5513. BR STD. H7304/53 5.3.65 NOW WK 1.3MTRS. (PARIS NM 65 03 24).

- NM 317/65. H3221/65 26.10.67 NOT SHOWN ON FRENCH 6501. DELETE. NE 323. H1271/80 9.12.81 SHOWN AS WK 6.2MTRS ON FRENCH 6651 [2ND EDN 1981]. NE 323. 16.8.85 EXAM'D IN 510346N, 021247E [EUR]. LEAST DEPTH 6.2 IN GEN DEPTH 13MTRS. LENGTH 100MTRS, PARTLY BROKEN UP. LYING 240/060DEG. (ANNALES HYDROGRAPHIQUES, 1983). H2884/85 16.7.86 LEAST DEPTH NOW 4.3MTRS. (BREST NM 86 19 23). BR STD. 7.11.88 SHOWN AS WK 4.3MTRS IN 8.0MTRS ON FRENCH 7057 [1987 EDN]. LOCATED IN 1985 BY V/S & MAGNETOMETER. BOW IS DISLODGED. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987 NO.21612096) NCA. 5.9.96 SHOWN AS WK 4.6MTRS [MLLWS] ON BELGIUM 102 REPROMAT [MAY '96]. NC 1873. 10.5.07 SHOWN AS WK 4.3MTRS [LAT] IN 5103.731N, 0212.705E [WGD] ON FRENCH [INT 1482] [2002 EDN, ADOPTION]. NE 1350.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN UP, BOW DISLODGED

Position: 51 3.739 N,2 12.708 E

 

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