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 (53.7402833, 0.2099667)

 

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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. Arctic viking
4. Bellerophon
5. Brema
6. Bur
7. Cadmus
8. Cap palos (part of)
9. Caroline
10. Chant 63
11. Chloris (possibly)
12. Corinth (possibly)
13. Cyclope
14. Dana (possibly)
15. Diana
16. Diana
17. Dryade
18. Elfrida
19. Eli
20. Empress (probably)
21. Feltre
22. Forest queen
23. Hannah louisa
24. Helmsman (probably)
25. Hms dirk
26. Hms fairy
27. Hms falcon (stern section)
28. Hms garmo (probably)
29. Hms silicia
30. Holmar i
31. Hornsund (probably)
32. Horsted
33. Houghton
34. Hugh taylor
35. Ida
36. J b paddon
37. Jane
38. John rettig (probably)
39. Kalo (probably)
40. Kilrea (probably)
41. Kingston cameo
42. Knuthenborg
43. Lady ann
44. Lady anstruther (probably)
45. Landport (possibly)
46. Lifeguard (possibly)
47. Lyra (bow section)
48. M c holm
49. Madame renee
50. Magdalyn ann
51. Manchester engineer (probably)
52. Manx queen
53. Marian francis
54. Markersdall (probably)
55. Meeuw
56. Modig
57. Modiva (possibly)
58. Nitedal
59. Norenda (possibly)
60. Norhilda
61. Onward (possibly)
62. Orsa
63. Otis tetrax
64. Our lorraine
65. Paraciers
66. Peebles (possibly)
67. Phare (probably)
68. Portia
69. Sixty-six
70. Sna iii
71. Sota eduardo
72. Stanburn
73. Storm drift
74. Tees
75. Togston (possibly)
76. Uc 39
77. Uc 75
78. Umbe
79. Upminster (possibly)
80. Uralar segundo (cargo debris)
81. Varangmalm (possibly)
82. Victo (bow section)
83. Victo (stern section)
84. Ville de valenciennes
85. Violet (probably)
86. Wayside flower (possibly)
87. 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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