This is the information page about the shipwreck Ville de valenciennes, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 1.782 N,0 2.981 E (53.740283, 0.209967)

 

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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. Agnes
2. Airdrie (possibly)
3. Albatross
4. Amsteldam
5. Angelo rose
6. Appolonia
7. Arctic viking
8. Ardens (probably)
9. Avance (probably)
10. Ballogie
11. Beaconsfield
12. Bellerophon
13. Biesbosch
14. Birtley
15. Bonhomme richard
16. Boys own
17. Brabant
18. Brema
19. Cadmus
20. Cambrai
21. Caroline
22. Chant 63
23. Charing cross (possibly)
24. Chicago
25. Chloris (possibly)
26. Commonwealth
27. Corinth (possibly)
28. Cyclope
29. Dana (possibly)
30. Deptford
31. Diana
32. Diana
33. Dryade
34. Dunstaffnage
35. Elfrida
36. Empress (probably)
37. Feltre
38. Forest queen
39. Frithof eide
40. G.3
41. Gem (bow section)
42. Gem (stern section)
43. Girl ita
44. Glamorganbrook
45. Goodwood
46. Graafjeld
47. Greltoria (probably)
48. Hannah
49. Hannah louisa
50. Helmsman (probably)
51. Hercules
52. Hms akranes
53. Hms banyers
54. Hms desire (possibly)
55. Hms dirk
56. Hms fairy
57. Hms falcon (stern section)
58. Hms falmouth
59. Hms thalia
60. Hms thomas cornwall
61. Holmar i
62. Horsted
63. Hugh taylor
64. Ida
65. J b paddon
66. Jerv
67. John rettig (probably)
68. Kalo (probably)
69. Kernoozer
70. Kilrea
71. Kilrea (probably)
72. Kingston cameo
73. Knuthenborg
74. Laconia (possibly)
75. Lady anstruther (probably)
76. Lady josyan
77. Landport (possibly)
78. Leander
79. Leersum (probably)
80. Lifeguard (possibly)
81. Linaria (probably)
82. Lindum
83. Longbenton (probably)
84. Lyra (bow section)
85. Magdalyn ann
86. Malvina (fwd part)
87. Manchester engineer (probably)
88. Marian francis
89. Markersdall (probably)
90. Mazeppa
91. Middlesborough
92. Modig
93. Modiva (possibly)
94. Mongolian
95. Nitedal
96. Onward (possibly)
97. Orsa
98. Otis tetrax
99. Our lorraine
100. Paddington (possibly) & unknown
101. Paraciers
102. Peebles (possibly)
103. Portia
104. Potomac
105. Riviere
106. Rosa
107. Runswick
108. Sapphire (probably)
109. Seistan
110. Sirajah
111. Sna iii
112. Sota eduardo
113. Sote (aft part)
114. Stanburn
115. Storm drift
116. Tangistan
117. Tees
118. Thea
119. Togston (possibly)
120. Tredegar hall
121. Trongate
122. Ub 107 & malvina (after part)
123. Uc 39
124. Uc 75
125. Umbe
126. Upminster (possibly)
127. Vaaren
128. Vaaren (possibly)
129. Varangmalm (possibly)
130. Ville de valenciennes
131. War crocus (possibly)
132. Wayside flower (possibly)
133. Whitemantle (possibly)

 

Name: VILLE DE VALENCIENNES

Length 83.5 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1734 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1897 by j readhead & sons, south shields. owned at time of loss by cie des bateaux a vapeur du nord. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 234hp, single shaft. passage the tyne for bordeaux. cargo coal. torpedoed and sunk.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 37 meter, Height above seabed: 112 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 20160310

Details measurements/cartography: H5848/17 28.9.17 POSN 540030N, 000450E OR 0.75 MILES W OF A BUOY. (VAEC). 10.4.24 AMEND OLD WK SYMBOL IN 540030N, 000450E TO DW. BR STD. H3752/26 11.6.26 AMEND TO NDW. POSN 535900, 000400E. SANK IN 2MIN. (PILOT'S REPORT). H5084/77 21.3.80 WK EXAM'D 28.11.79 IN 540145.6N, 000306.0E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 32 IN GEN DEPTH 38.7MTRS. SCOUR 0.5MTR DEEP. DCS3 HT 5.1MTRS, LENGTH 80MTRS. LYING 120/300DEG. IN TWO MAIN SECTIONS. (HMS ECHO, HI 64/79). BR STD. H2534/74 9.1.80 WK REPD IN 540142N, 000259E. POSN BY DECCA. (KINGFISHER BOOK OF TOWS, VOL I). NCA. HH100/351/17 30.8.01 THIS IS THE VILLE DE VALENCIENNES. HER BELL WAS RECOVERED RECENTLY. (R YOUNG, EMAIL DTD 6.8.01), NCA. HH100/351/18 8.4.02 WELL BROKEN UP. ENGINE AND TWO BOILERS MIDSHIPS. GUN ON STERN WAS RECOVERED IN 1985. BOWS S. SEABED SAND AND GRAVEL. IDENTIFIED FROM BELL INSCRIBED: VILLE DE VALENCIENNES, DUNKIRK, 1897. (A C JACKSON & C A RACEY). NCA. SEP2016/000053291 10.3.16 EXAM'D 10.3.16; IN 5401.782N, 0002.981E [WGD]. LEAST WCD DEPTH 30.53MTRS, GEN DEPTH 37MTRS. LENGTH 101.8MTRS, WIDTH 18.7MTRS, HT 5.09MTRS, ORIENTATION 112/292 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY, WK PARTIALLY INTACT. (MMT, HI 1473, H525_6469). AMEND NDW 30.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: PARTIALLY INTACT

Position: 54 1.782 N,0 2.981 E

 

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