This is the information page about the shipwreck Wavecrest, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 40.55 N,6 9.498 W (48.675833333333, -6.1583)

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: WAVECREST

Length 59.4 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 4, tonnage 770 ton
Load: scrap metal,metal: concentrate and products

Cause: 26.4.85 reported to have developed a list and making water. later abandoned by crew and eventually sank. vessel was on passage lancaster for passajes. (ll 25 & 26.4.85).

Year of registration: 1985

Water depth above wreck: 116 meter

Known since: 1985, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: H2302/84 7.5.85 SANK IN 484036N, 060902W [EUR]. (CROSS CORSEN, TELEX DTD 24.4.85). INS AS WK USC PA 90MTRS. BR STD. H5844/83 24.7.85 WK 85.0MTRS IN 484036N, 060924W [EUR]. (FRENCH NM 85 26 30). NCA. H5844/83 21.10.85 NOW WK USC 85MTRS IN 484036N, 060924W [EUR]. (FRENCH NM 85 38 27). NCA. 22.2.88 NOW WK USC PA 85MTRS IN 484036N, 060902W [EUR]. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987 & FRENCH 7067 [1987 EDN]). BR STD. 15.2.99 NOTED AS 'DIFFUSION LIMITEE'. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1999). AMENDED TO CINC. SEP 2007/000004861 22.2.07 SHOWN AS WK 110MTRS IN 4840.105N, 0609.858W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7066 [INT 1800] [3RD EDN '06, 1:150,000]. RETAIN CINC. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 48 40.55 N,6 9.498 W

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