This is the information page about the shipwreck Seablue, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 24.22 N,3 25.698 E (51.604716666667, 3.38255)

 

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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. Admiralengracht
2. Alhema 2
3. Anna catharina
4. Baidar
5. Baltique
6. Birkenfels
7. Caesar stettin
8. Capella (possibly)
9. Caritas
10. Childwall (possibly)
11. Christiaan huygens
12. Comitas
13. Cw funch or phoenix
14. Doris
15. Edward dawson
16. Empire blessing
17. Fort maisonneuve
18. Fortune
19. Foscolo
20. Frigg (possibly)
21. G 88
22. Garonne
23. Gorm
24. Grauw
25. Greta dania
26. Hmmms 248
27. Hmmms 257
28. Hr ms balder (possibly)
29. Jamaica
30. Jonge catharina
31. Lasker
32. Loodsboot 14
33. Loodsboot no.1
34. Lookout
35. M 3231 (possibly)
36. M 3267 (possibly)
37. Magne
38. Marie
39. Meerkerk
40. Noordzee
41. Ougree
42. Prangehof
43. Redwood
44. Samselbu (after part)
45. Samselbu (fwd part)
46. Santos
47. Seabird (possibly)
48. Seablue
49. Segre
50. Silvio
51. Songa
52. Spyros armenakis
53. Steel traveler
54. Stella
55. Tojaro
56. Trawl
57. Tuskar ii
58. Tysla
59. Ub 20 (possibly)
60. Uc 14
61. V 1405 (possibly)
62. Vanda (possibly)
63. Vestland
64. War diwan (after part)
65. War diwan (fore-ship)
66. Zuidpool

 

Name: SEABLUE

Length 43 meter, width: 82.3 meter, tonnage 518 ton
Load: machinery and mechanical parts,vehicles

Cause: built in 1945. owned at time of loss by instone lines ltd. passage london for antwerp. struck wk of ss empire blessing in fog off knocke. abandoned & sank 5m wsw of flushing. (the empire ships).

Year of registration: 1954

Water depth above wreck: 13 meter

Known since: 1954, last detected: 2022

Details measurements/cartography: H1147/54 29.10.54 WK 4MTRS IN 512409N, 032600E, MARKED BY G CONL BUOY. (NETH NM 214/3012/54).

- NM 2364/54. 17.10.56 NOW CHARTED AS SW 2FMS. (AUTHORITY NOT CHARTED). NE 325. H1147/54 15.7.65 SALVAGE OPS IN PROGRESS. (HAGUE NM 2083(T)/65). NCA. H3446/60 10.6.66 WK, SWEPT CLEAR AT 9.9MTRS [5FMS 2FT], MARKED BY G CONL BUOY. (NETHERLANDS NM 1495/66).

- NM 1114/66. 20.1.77 NOW MARKED BY 'SEABLUE' N CARD BUOY CLOSE NW. (IALA). NE 325. 5.2.91 SEABLUE, SWEPT CLEAR AT 9.9MTRS, IN 512409N, 032600E [EUR]. (NETHERLANDS WK RECORDS, SEP'90 EDN, NO.S11 1416). HH340/420/01 12.10.95 NOW SW 11.5MTRS IN 512418N, 032543E. (NETHERLANDS NM 501/95). BR STD. 4.2.97 SHOWN AS SW 11.5MTRS "WKS" ON BELGIAN 101 [OCT'96 EDN]. BR STD. 22.11.99 COVERED BY WKS SW 11.5MTRS CLOSE W, 'SEABLUE' BUOY STILL SHOWN ON BELGIAN D11 [1998 EDN]. NE 1872. 16.12.02 NOT SHOWN ON NETHERLANDS 116, COVERED BY WKS SW 11.5MTRS [27443] ON BELGIAN 101 [INT 1474] [2002 EDN, ADOPTION]. NCA. 23.4.08 BUOY NOT SHOWN ON BA 1874 [ 12.5.04 SHOWN AS WKS SW 11.5MTRS IN 5124.220N, 0325.650E [WGD], IN CONJUNCTION WITH WK SW, NO DEPTH SPECIFIED, CLOSE NW [SEE 27443], WITH BUOY, ON BELGIAN 101 [INT 1474] [SEP'03 EDN, ADOPTION]. NE 1874. 23.4.08 BUOY NOT SHOWN ON BA 1874 [EDN 7 DTD 31.5.07]. SEP 2008/000036802 23.4.08 NOW SW 12.3MTRS. (NETH NM 16/194/08). INS IN 5124.20N, 0325.70E. (RT DECISION).

- NM 2940/08. 24.5.11 SHOWN AS SW 12MTRS [LAT] IN 5124.220N, 0325.698E [WGD] ON NL40016 [EDN 14.14]. 18.8.15 SHOWN AS SW 12MTRS IN 5124.220N, 0325.698E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 101. (MAY 2015, COR TO 23.4.15). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: See Also: 27443

Position: 51 24.22 N,3 25.698 E

 

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