This is the information page about the shipwreck Queen of the channel (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 18.484 N,2 43.32 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. A-15 (possibly)
2. Apache
3. Ardmount
4. Auretta
5. Bourrasque
6. Bowsprite (bow section)
7. Bramden (possibly)
8. Clan macalister
9. Clan macneil (possibly)
10. Cmb 1
11. Cmb 71a
12. Dawdon
13. Dortmund
14. Douaisien (possibly)
15. Emeraude
16. Empire path
17. Etendard
18. Fl5
19. G 96
20. Heinkel 111
21. Hm motor launch 561
22. Hms basilisk
23. Hms brilliant
24. Hms colsay
25. Hms gracie fields
26. Hms grafton
27. Hms grafton
28. Hms keith
29. Hms plumpton (probably)
30. Hms sirius
31. Hms skipjack
32. Hms st abbs
33. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
34. Hms wakeful
35. Hms waverley
36. Hms whitley
37. Horst
38. John mahn
39. Kestrel
40. Keulse vaart iv
41. Kilmore
42. Laura
43. Lct(r) 457
44. Lorina
45. Lorina (possibly)
46. Lst 420 (stern section)
47. M 3610
48. Mariner (possibly)
49. Maurice
50. Mont louis
51. Nashaba
52. Nautica ena
53. Neutron
54. P 319
55. Putten
56. Queen of the channel (possibly)
57. Quo vadis
58. Ra.2 (possibly)
59. Rijnstroom
60. Rita
61. Robert l vann
62. S 168
63. Sabrina
64. Sampa
65. Senator holthusen
66. Sigurds faulbaums
67. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
68. Sterre der zee
69. Torpilleur branlebas
70. Tringa
71. U 11
72. Ub 13
73. Ub 29
74. Ub29
75. Uc 1
76. Vlaanderen (probably)
77. West-hinder
78. Wielingen ii (possibly)
79. Wielingen ltv
80. Wolf
81. Zeester

 

Name: QUEEN OF THE CHANNEL (POSSIBLY)

Length 76.2 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 2.7, tonnage 1162 ton

Cause: Built in 1935 by w deny & bros. owned at time of loss by general steam navigation co. oil engines of 500rhp for 21.5 knots. taken over by the admiralty as an auxillary transport. damaged by bombs dropped by german aircraft while waiting to enter dunkirk at time of evacuation of british army. was taken in tow but eventually sank. (dods). all 920 men rescued by dorien rose. (r verpoorte).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 20 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H0512/40 3.6.40 SANK 1 MILE N OF MIDDLEKERKE BANK BUOY. (VA DOVER, 28.5.40). INS AS DWPA 511630N, 024324E. - PFNM 1401/40. 26.7.40 INS DWPA IN 511630N, 024324E ON 1872, 1406.

- NM 1851/40. 30.6.71 NOT SHOWN ON BELGIAN CHART 1. H802/61 13.9.71 AREA AROUND POSN 511630N, 024030E SWEPT BY SONAR. NOT FOUND. (OSTENDE, LTR DTD 3.9.71). DELETE. BR STD. 23.4.74 NOT SHOWN. (NETH 1035). NCA. H1310/88/16 24.3.88 HISTORY OF VESSEL. (R VERPOORTE, 9.2.88). HH342/350/01 7.9.90 SW 16MTRS IN 511832N, 024324E [EUR]. (OSTENDE NM 109/90).

- NM 2696/90. SEP 2010/000138707 15.10.10 SHOWN AS SW 15.9MTRS [LAT] IN 5118.484N, 0243.320E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 102 [NE 6.10, 1:60,000].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 18.484 N,2 43.32 E

 

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