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, 2.5103666666667)

 

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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. Amor
2. Andre
3. Bourrasque
4. Bowsprite (bow section)
5. Bowsprite (bow section)
6. Bramden (possibly)
7. Brighton
8. Bruno heinemann (z.8)
9. Calypso
10. Clan macalister
11. Clan macneil (possibly)
12. Cmb 71a
13. Dageraad
14. Dawdon
15. De wandilaar
16. Deo gratias
17. Douaisien (possibly)
18. Ely
19. Estafette
20. Etendard
21. Fauvette
22. Fenella (possibly)
23. Fennella
24. Fl5
25. Floride (probably)
26. Foudroyant
27. Foudroyant (possibly)
28. G 96
29. Ganko
30. Garden city
31. Halo (probably)
32. Hms basilisk
33. Hms blackburn rovers (possibly)
34. Hms brighton queen
35. Hms gracie fields
36. Hms grenade
37. Hms keith
38. Hms king orry
39. Hms redcar
40. Hms skipjack
41. Hms st abbs
42. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
43. Hms westella
44. Hms whitley
45. Horst
46. Hs 97 (possibly)
47. Jaguar
48. Jarita
49. Jonrix
50. Kestrel
51. Keulse vaart iv
52. Kilmore
53. L'urtiga (possibly)
54. Laura
55. Le copain d'abord
56. Lorina
57. Lorina (possibly)
58. M 345 (possibly)
59. Madimba (probably)
60. Marie
61. Mariner (possibly)
62. Marthe
63. Melrose
64. Mona's queen
65. Msc alyssa
66. Normannia
67. P 319
68. Paris (possibly)
69. Peppinella
70. Port nicholson (probably)
71. Prinses astrid
72. Quo vadis
73. R.93 (possibly)
74. Robert-clara
75. S 168
76. Sabrina
77. Saint camille
78. Sea hunter
79. Sigurds faulbaums
80. St corentin
81. St fagan
82. St pierre (aft section)
83. St pierre (fore portion)
84. Sterre der zee
85. Toquet
86. Torpilleur branlebas
87. Trifels
88. Tringa
89. Ub29
90. Uc 1
91. Uc 63
92. V 201 (possibly)
93. Vecht (probably)
94. Vlaanderen (probably)
95. West-hinder
96. Wielingen ii (possibly)
97. Wielingen ltv
98. Wolf
99. 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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