This is the information page about the shipwreck Spyros armenakis, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 26.342 N,3 33.11 E (51.6047167, 3.38255)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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.
Name: SPYROS ARMENAKIS
Length 86 meter, width: 12.2 meter, tonnage 2065 ton
Load: coal
Cause: Built in 1942. owned at time of loss by spyridon d armenakis. passage immingham for sluiskil. ran aground & broke in two on nolleplaat sandbank, scheldt estuary, during a storm. (msd).
Year of registration: 1965
Water depth above wreck: 7 meter
Known since: 1965, last detected: 2022
Details measurements/cartography: H1334/65 27.4.65 ST IN 512623.5N, 033309.5E. (HAGUE NM 846/65).
- NM 733/65. 22.5.72 FORT DE NOLLE LT HAS RED SECTOR 357DEGS THROUGH N TO 005DEGS WHICH COVERS THIS WK. (HAGUE NM 556/72). H2128/70 12.7.78 INS RAREFL ABOVE MAST ON 325 ONLY. BR STD. H1334/65 7.4.83 RUSSIAN MV VOSTOK 2 GROUNDED ON THIS WK ON 16.3.83, & WAS REFLOATED BY TUGS. (LL, 17.3.83). 5.4.85 SHOWN AS ST (NO RAREFL) ON NE 325. 25.1.91 SPYROS ARMENAKIS, ST IN 512623.5N, 033309.5E [EUR]. (NETHERLANDS WK RECORDS, SEP '90 EDN, NO.S11 1535). 16.9.93 SHOWN AS ST ON NETHERLANDS 120 [1993 EDN]. BR STD. HH340/420/01 16.12.93 MARKER BUOYS (UNLIT) CONICAL N. CARD IN 512627N, 033310E & CAN S CARD IN 512620N, 033310E. (NETHERLANDS NM 653/49/93).
- NM 130/94. HH340/420/01 11.1.96 ST NOW DW IN 512623.5N, 033309.5E. (NETHERLANDS NM 634/95).
- NM 480/96. SEP 2006/000377044 2.10.06 SHOWN AS SW 1.1MTRS IN 5126.342N, 0333.111E [WGD] ON NETHERLANDS 116 [JUL '06 EDN]. BR STD. 17.5.11 SHOWN AS SW 0.9MTR [LAT] IN 5126.342N, 0333.110E [WGD] WITH UNLIT BUOYS 'SPROS N & Z' ON BA 120 [EDN 10 DTD 26.8.10].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 51 26.342 N,3 33.11 E