This is the information page about the shipwreck Trifels, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 13.805 N,2 22.105 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.

 

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2. Andre
3. Bourrasque
4. Bowsprite (bow section)
5. Bramden (possibly)
6. Brighton
7. Bruno heinemann (z.8)
8. Clan macalister
9. Clan macneil (possibly)
10. Cmb 71a
11. Dawdon
12. Deo gratias
13. Douaisien (possibly)
14. Estafette
15. Etendard
16. Fauvette
17. Fennella
18. Fl5
19. Floride (probably)
20. Foudroyant
21. Foudroyant (possibly)
22. G 96
23. Ganko
24. Garden city
25. Hms basilisk
26. Hms blackburn rovers (possibly)
27. Hms brighton queen
28. Hms gracie fields
29. Hms grenade
30. Hms keith
31. Hms king orry
32. Hms redcar
33. Hms skipjack
34. Hms st abbs
35. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
36. Hms westella
37. Hms whitley
38. Horst
39. Jaguar
40. Jarita
41. Jonrix
42. Kestrel
43. Keulse vaart iv
44. Kilmore
45. L'urtiga (possibly)
46. Laura
47. Le copain d'abord
48. Lorina
49. Lorina (possibly)
50. Madimba (probably)
51. Mariner (possibly)
52. Marthe
53. Melrose
54. Mona's queen
55. P 319
56. Paris (possibly)
57. Peppinella
58. Port nicholson (probably)
59. Prinses astrid
60. Quo vadis
61. R.93 (possibly)
62. S 168
63. Sabrina
64. Saint camille
65. Sigurds faulbaums
66. St fagan
67. St pierre (aft section)
68. St pierre (fore portion)
69. Sterre der zee
70. Toquet
71. Torpilleur branlebas
72. Trifels
73. Tringa
74. Ub 29
75. Ub29
76. Uc 1
77. Uc 63
78. V 201 (possibly)
79. Vecht (probably)
80. Vlaanderen (probably)
81. West-hinder
82. Wielingen ii (possibly)
83. Wielingen ltv
84. Wolf
85. Zeester

 

Name: TRIFELS

Length 131.1 meter, width: 17.1 meter, draught: 9.1, tonnage 6198 ton

Cause: Built in 1922 by j c tecklenborg ag. owned at time of loss by deutsche dampfs ges hansa. triple expansion engine & lp steam turbine for 608nhp. had previously been captured by the french and re-named sainte louise, but had been repossesed by germany after the fall of france. sunk by british mtbs. (dods).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 25 meter, Height above seabed: 157 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2017

Details measurements/cartography: H03950/41 10.11.41 DW, 2 MASTS SHOWING, IN 511340N, 022206E. BUOYED. (VA DOVER, 10.11.41).

- NM 2748/41 & FNM 2763/41. H03950/41 27.11.50 SALVAGE OPS IN PROGRESS. (GRAY & THOMPSON SALVAGE CO).

- NM 2036/50. H03950/41 11.11.52 SALVAGE OPS COMPLETED. (GRAY & THOMPSON SALVAGE CO).

- NM 2241/52. H2436/64 9.2.65 SHOWN AS ST ON FR 5513. BR STD. H802/61 15.2.66 SHOWN AS DW ON BELGIUM 1. NE 1872. 25.8.66 SHOWN AS DWPA ON BELGIUM 1. BR STD. H03950/41 9.11.81 NOW SW 10.6MTRS [MLS] IN 511351N, 022211E [EUR]. (BELGIUM NM 24/79/81).

- NM 41/82. H1271/81 12.11.84 SHOWN AS SW 10.3MTRS [LAT] ON FR 6735 [1984 EDN]. BR STD. H1310/85/8 15.2.85 DIVED ON 7.8.84 IN PERFECT U/W VISIBILITY. LARGE VESSEL STANDING ALMOST 30FT OFF BOTTOM. LIES NNW/SSE, PARTIALLY IN A SANDBANK. LARGE GAP IN PORT SIDE AND DECK. MASTS STILLS LYING ON DECK. POTTERY WITH BOTH GERMAN (HANZA BREMEN) AND FRENCH (LIMOGES 1939) INSCRIPTIONS FOUND. THEREFORE THOUGHT TO BE WK OF TRIFELS. (J COULON, 25.1.85). H1310/88/18 28.7.88 CONFIRMED WK OF TRIFELS - NAME FOUND ON SPARE PROPELLER BLADE. (J COULON, 15.3.88). 31.10.96 SHOWN AS SW 10.6MTRS [MLS] ON BELGIAN 102 REPROMAT MAY'96. NC 1873 [MLS] NOW LARGEST SCALE. 18.10.10 SHOWN AS SW 10.3MTRS [LAT] IN 5113.805N, 0222.105E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 102 [NE 1.6.10, 1:60,000].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT, GAP IN PORT SIDE & DECK, MASTS ON DECK

Position: 51 13.805 N,2 22.105 E

 

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