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 (51.6047167, 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. Baidar
4. Baltique
5. Birkenfels
6. Caesar stettin
7. Capella (possibly)
8. Caritas
9. Childwall (possibly)
10. Christiaan huygens
11. Comitas
12. Cw funch or phoenix
13. Doris
14. Edward dawson
15. Fort maisonneuve
16. Fortune
17. Frigg (possibly)
18. G 88
19. Garonne
20. Gorm
21. Grauw
22. Greta dania
23. Hmmms 248
24. Hmmms 257
25. Hr ms balder (possibly)
26. Jonge catharina
27. Lasker
28. Loodsboot 14
29. Loodsboot no.1
30. M 3231 (possibly)
31. M 3267 (possibly)
32. Magne
33. Marie
34. Meerkerk
35. Noordzee
36. Ougree
37. Redwood
38. Samselbu (fwd part)
39. Seabird (possibly)
40. Seablue
41. Segre
42. Silvio
43. Songa
44. Spyros armenakis
45. Steel traveler
46. Stella
47. Tojaro
48. Trawl
49. Tuskar ii
50. Tysla
51. Ub 20 (possibly)
52. Uc 14
53. V 1405 (possibly)
54. Vanda (possibly)
55. Vestland
56. War diwan (after part)
57. War diwan (fore-ship)
58. 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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