This is the information page about the shipwreck Rijnstroom, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 34.218 N,2 52.505 E (51.381633333333, 2.6202333333333)

 

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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. "t" vliegent hart
2. A-15 (possibly)
3. Alfonso tercero
4. Altmark
5. Anton hammerbacher
6. Apache
7. Ardmount
8. Auretta
9. Bowsprite (bow section)
10. Bowsprite (bow section)
11. Callisto
12. Charles d mciver
13. Cmb 1
14. Copenhagen (possibly)
15. Croxteth hall
16. Dawdon
17. Eleftheria
18. Emeraude
19. Empire path
20. Fl5
21. Francis asbury
22. G 96
23. Gold shell
24. Harpalyce
25. Hms grafton
26. Hms grafton
27. Hms maori
28. Hms wakeful
29. Hms waverley
30. Hmsm h 10 (probably)
31. Hoop op vrede (n 741)
32. Jeannine andre
33. John mahn
34. Jurgen
35. Kap arkona
36. Katie h
37. Kompas
38. Lct(r) 457
39. Lst 80
40. Lucy jenny ii
41. M 3610
42. Marie
43. Maurice
44. Mont louis
45. Msc alyssa
46. Mts vector
47. Nashaba
48. Nautica ena
49. Neutron
50. Neutron
51. Nippon
52. Normandie
53. Queen of the channel (possibly)
54. Rijnstroom
55. Rita
56. Robert l vann
57. S 220
58. Sampa
59. Samselbu (after part)
60. Samsip
61. Samvern (e part)
62. Samvern (w part)
63. Senator holthusen
64. Senator sthamer
65. Sigurds faulbaums
66. Slera ventana
67. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
68. Tubantia
69. U 11
70. Ub 13
71. Ub29

 

Name: RIJNSTROOM

Length 72.2 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 3, tonnage 695 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1937 by n v c van der giessen & zonen. owned at time of loss by n v hollandsche stoomb maats. oil engine of 16nhp. torpedoed and sunk by u 17. passage the downs for amsterdam. crew of 12 lost. (r verpoorte & axis submarine successes). ?mined. (dods).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 28 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: 23.12.76 OBSTN SHOWN IN 513412N, 025241E ON KINGFISHER CHART KE 151-2 [JUL'68 EDN]. NCA YET. H4753/82 3.2.86 WK 23.5MTRS IN 513417N, 025237E [EUR]. (NETH NM 662/85). BR STD. HH100/351/01 14.6.90 MV RIJNSTROOM WAS SUNK IN 513600N, 025400E, APPROX. (R VERPOORTE, 9.5.89). HH100/351/06 16.10.92 EXAM'D BY DIVERS FROM MV AQUARIUS IN 513417N, 025233.5E [EUR]. POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS THE RIJNSTROOM - BELL RECOVERED. (R VERPOORTE, 29.9.92). HH340/530/01 9.6.93 NOW SW 22.6MTRS IN 513416N, 025235E [EUR]. (OOSTENDE NM 9/94/93).

- NM 2125/93. 29.10.93 SHOWN ON BELGIUM 101 [1993 EDN]. NCA. 4.2.96 SHOWN AS F ON BELGIAN 101 [OCT'96 EDN]. BR STD. HH342/700/01 13.3.97 NOW WK 22.5MTRS IN 513416N, 025236.5E [EUR]. (BELGIAN NM 5/69/97). RETAIN AS F, AMEND POSN. BR STD ACTION. HH340/530/04 14.5.97 AMEND FOUL TO SW 22.5MTRS IN 513416N, 025236.5E [EUR]. (BELGIAN NM 09/97/97). ALREADY SHOWN AS SW 22.5MTRS ON BA 1874 [5.97 EDN]. NCA. 3.6.13 [WGD] POSN: 5134.218N, 0252.505E.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 34.218 N,2 52.505 E

 

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