This is the information page about the shipwreck Veghtstroom (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 16.075 N,5 35.101 W (50.267917, -5.585017)

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.

Name: VEGHTSTROOM (POSSIBLY)

Length 70.1 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1353 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1901 by rijkee & co., rotterdam and owned at time of loss by hollandsche stoomboot maats. two boilers, triple expansion engine, single shaft. machinery by maats feyenoord, rotterdam. passage penarth for le havre. cargo coal. torpedoed and sunk by uc47. five lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 28 meter, Height above seabed: 114 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2011

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 7M NW OF GODREVY LIGHTHOUSE. (LL WW1 & DODS). CHARTED AS DW PA IN 501745N, 053325W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). H2326/75 1.10.76 WK, ASSUMED TO BE VEGHTSTROOM, LOCATED USING MAGNETOMETER IN 501600N, 053500W USING DECCA. REPORTED BY DIVERS TO LIE NE/SW WITH BOWS TO NE IN GEN DEPTH 90 - 100FT. WELL BROKEN AND ONLY STANDING ABOUT 8FT HIGH WITH DEBRIS SCATTERED ON BOTH SIDES. BOILERS, AT CENTRE, HIGHEST PART. (E GILES,18.5.76). INS AS WK 25MTRS. BR STD. APPLICATION BY WESTERN OIL SERVICES TO PURCHASE THIS WK. (N/CS111/1842). HH100/351/04 18.3.91 DIVED IN 501602.5N, 053503W APPROX USING DECCA. STANDS 3MTRS HIGH. (R A MAPPLEBECK, 6.1.91). NCA. HH100/351/15 17.9.99 DIVED IN 5015.974N, 0535.158W [WGD] USING DGPS. LENGTH 50MTRS, HT 2-3MTRS APPROX. NO SCOUR. STRONG MAGENTIC ANOMALY. SEABED SAND AND ROCK RIDGES. LOCATED WITH MAGNETOMETER, VERY LITTLE SHOWS ON E/S. WELL FLATTENED AND SPREAD OUT. TWO BOILERS AND THE ENGINE ARE THE HIGHEST PART. PROPELLER SHAFT INTACT. PROPELLER AND SPARE SEEN AND FOUR ANCHORS. (G J LOCKETT, 17.9.99). RETAIN AS WK 25MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. 2.7.01 DIVED IN 5016.046N, 0535.051W [WGD] USING DGPS. LIES 030/210 DEGS. UPRIGHT BUT WELL DECAYED. BOW COLLAPSED, STERN IS THE HIGHEST PART. ENGINE BLOCK AND TWO BOILERS NOTED. (J ROSEVEARE, TELECON). AMEND POSN. BR STD. 15.12.11 LOCATED 13.10.11 IN 5016.075N, 0535.101W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 25.63 IN GEN DEPTH 28.3MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 16.3MTRS, WIDTH 11.2MTRS, HT 2.67MTRS. LIES 114/294 DEGS WITH BOWS SE. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (FUGRO OSAE, HI 1157). FOUR MAJOR CONTACTS. AMEND WK 25.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, WELL DECAYED

Position: 50 16.075 N,5 35.101 W

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