This is the information page about the shipwreck Z 28, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 30.273 N,13 39.115 E (54.50455, 13.6519167)

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: Z 28

Length 127.1 meter, width: 11.9 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 2603 ton

Cause: Built 1940 at bremen. five 5.9inch guns, turbine engines of 55,000nhp. bombed and sunk by allied aircraft. (german surface vessels, vol 1, dods).

Year of registration: 1946

Water depth above wreck: 10 meter

Known since: 1946, last detected: 2016

Details measurements/cartography: H2403/46 5.6.46 STRANDED WK MARKED BY LT BUOY GP FL G, IN 543027N, 133915E. (LENINGRAD NM 142/46).

- NM 1808/46. H1832/51 24.4.51 BELL REMOVED FROM LT BUOY. (GERMAN NM 658/51).

- NM 783/51. H1832/51 1.1.52 GREEN CONL BUOY, OCC G, LAID CLOSE S OF WK. (GER. NM 3957/51).

- NM 2424/51. 20.5.52 4 TORPEDOES SALVAGED BY RUSSIANS. (N.I.D. 04261/52). NCA. H1832/51 13.9.52 POSN NOW 543021N, 133915E. BELL INSTALLED ON N LT BUOY. (GER NM 2785/52).

- NM 1774/52. H1832/51 23.12.52 BUOY CLOSE S WITHDRAWN. (GERMAN NM 3898/52).

- NM 2643/52. H1832/51 28.10.53 LT ON N BUOY NOW FL G.5S. (GERMAN NM 3312/53).

- NM 2477/53. H1832/51 14.6.55 LT ON N BUOY NOW GPFL[2] G 9S. (GERMAN NM 1369/55).

- NM 1384/55. H1832/51 2.11.55 AMENDED TO FOUL IN 543021N, 133915E. (GERMAN NM 3341/55).

- NM 2552/55. H757/57 24.6.57 BUOY WITHDRAWN. (E GER NM 3662/56).

- NM 1419/57. 3.11.76 SHOWN AS OBSTN 9MTRS ON GERMAN 40 [NOV 1969 EDN]. BR STD. HH327/530/01 13.8.92 AMENDED TO WK SW 9.1MTRS, IN 543018N, 133906E. (HAMBURG NM (16)40/30/92). BR STD. 19.4.16 SHOWN AS WK SWEPT 9.3MTRS IN 5430.273N, 1339.115E [WGD] ON GERMAN 1516. [ED7 COR 3.7.15]. AMEND SW 9.3MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 30.273 N,13 39.115 E

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