This is the information page about the shipwreck Ville de bordeaux, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 41.716 N,0 33.727 E (50.717333333333, 0.60878333333333)

 

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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. Achille adam
2. Actuality
3. Alan dean
4. Alaunia
5. Albuera
6. Alice (possibly)
7. Amsterdam
8. Argonaut
9. Ash
10. Barn hill
11. Bernicia
12. Branksome chine (possibly)
13. Broderick (probably)
14. Caleb sprague
15. Carlisle castle
16. Carrie dingle
17. Caterham
18. Ceta (stern section)
19. Charles m
20. Clara
21. Corinia (possibly)
22. D144 (possibly).
23. Davenport
24. Dona isabel (probably)
25. Duchess (possibly)
26. Eagle (possibly)
27. Ella sayer
28. Emerald (possibly)
29. Emma
30. Enero (probably)
31. Euphorbia
32. Evg(no rx152)?
33. F d lambert (possibly)
34. Frockner
35. Glenartney (possibly)
36. Gold coin
37. Harold
38. Heathpool
39. Heathpool
40. Hms anne
41. Hms ariadne
42. Hms balfour
43. Hms caulonia
44. Hms gambri (possibly)
45. Hms resolution (possibly)
46. Hms taipo
47. Hoheweg
48. Holland v
49. Irisbrook
50. James groves
51. Jan brons
52. Kingfisher (probably)
53. Lady alice
54. Lalen mendi
55. Lepanto/le panto/panta/panto
56. Lisbon
57. Lullington
58. Ma monette
59. Maxwell
60. Mohlenpris (possibly)
61. Mount stuart
62. Mv adur valley?
63. My astor
64. Newent
65. Noordster
66. Oceana
67. Pontos
68. Robin hood
69. Roecliff
70. Rushing water
71. Rydal hall (possibly)
72. Rytoner
73. Saint emilion (probably)
74. Samwake
75. Seaford
76. Seven seas (possibly)
77. Sir robert wigham
78. Sitakund (part of)(possibly)
79. Skerryvore
80. Sparta (possibly)
81. St rogatien (possibly)
82. Startled fawn (possibly)
83. Storaa
84. Swale (probably)
85. U 671
86. Umba (probably)
87. Veerman
88. Ville de bordeaux
89. Ville de dunkirk (stern) (possibly)
90. War monarch
91. Waterland (possibly)
92. Wittering

 

Name: VILLE DE BORDEAUX

Length 82.3 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1393 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: ex-antilles. built in 1881 by napier shanks & bell, glasgow. owned at time of loss by cie de bateaux a vapeur nord. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 151 nhp, single shaft. passage brest for dunkirk. sank following collision with ss irisbrook of glasgow, which was also lost. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1964

Water depth above wreck: 35 meter, Height above seabed: 165 cm

Known since: 1964, last detected: 20150607

Details measurements/cartography: H658/64 21.1.64 STRONG SONAR CONTACT IN 504154N, 003348E. CLASSIFIED AS POSSIBLE WK. LEAST E/S DEPTH 19 IN GEN DEPTH 20FMS. ORIENTATED 250/070DEGS. CONTACT HELD OUT TO MAX. RANGE 2,100FT. (HMS LYNX, 25.7.63). H4959/73 5.5.75 EXAM'D 24.10.74 IN 504142N, 003348E [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 27.2 IN GEN DEPTH 38MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR DEEP. LENGTH 230-250FT. FAINT E/S RETURNS. (HMS BEAGLE, 1.1.75). INS AS WK 14FMS 5FT. BR STD. 12.9.73 SANK 10M ESE OF ROYAL SOVEREIGN LTV. (TELECOM 12.9.73, WKS/LLOYDS INTELLIGENCE). H4121/76 28.7.76 WK SWEPT CLEAR AT 22.7MTRS. (SOISS, SIGNAL DTD 14.6.76). H4121/76 4.8.76 EXAM'D IN LISTED POSN. SWEPT CLEAR AT 22.7, FOUL AT 23.1MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 27.2MTRS. DIVERS REPORT WK TO BE A 2-3000 TONS FREIGHTER WITH STERN BLOWN OFF. UPRIGHT WITH TOP OF MAST ABOUT 14MTRS ABOVE SEABED. PROBABLY A WW1 SINKING. (HMS ECHO, HI 41/76). AMEND TO SW 22.5MTRS.

- NM 1547/76. 27.6.77 AMEND TO SW 22.5MTRS. NC 2451. HH100/351/08 29.1.94 TWO WRECKS LOCATED AT 504144N, 003345.4E WITH A SCOUR BETWEEN THEM. ONE WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE 'VILLE DE DUNKIRK' - BELL RECOVERED. THE OTHER IS THOUGHT PROBABLY TO BE THE 'IRISBROOK' [SEE WK 20428]. (S HOWLAND/E CHALLANS, 22.1.94). INS LEGEND 'WKS'. 9.6.09 THIS IS THE VILLE DE BORDEAUX, THE BOW STILL BEING IN THE STERN OF IRISBROOK. UNABLE TO LOCATE ANY RECORD OF 'VILLE DE DUNKERQUE' FOR THAT ERA. CONSIDER THAT THE BELL MAY HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE EXTRA PART OF THE NAME TO BE ENGRAVED, OR THAT THE NAME WAS ERODED. (D RONNAN, EMAIL DTD 9.6.09). NCA. SEP 2015/000083464 10.2.16 EXAM'D 7.6.15; IN 5041.716N, 0033.727E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 29.24MTRS, GEN DEPTH 35MTRS. LENGTH 85MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS, HT 4MTRS, ORIENTATION 165/345. SCOUR 230MTRS TOWARDS 045, SCOUR DEPTH 6MTRS. WK INTACT, UPRIGHT, STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (HI 1475, GARDLINE GEOSURVEY). AMEND NDW 29MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: See Also: 20428

Position: 50 41.716 N,0 33.727 E

 

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