This is the information page about the shipwreck Zaanstroom, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 39.142 N,0 36.971 W (50.6523667, -0.6161833)

 

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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.

 

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8. Arno (possibly)
9. Atlas (probably)
10. Axwell
11. Basil-2
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13. Cambrian princess (probably)
14. Candia
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24. Germa geisha
25. Glenlee
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36. Hmsm a1
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57. Stavros (possibly)
58. Teelin head
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60. U 86 (possibly)
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62. Vigda
63. War helmet
64. Zaanstroom

 

Name: ZAANSTROOM

Length 65.1 meter, width: 9.8 meter, draught: 5.1, tonnage 990 ton
Load: clay products

Cause: Built in 1895 by huygens & van gleder, amsterdam. owned at time of loss by hollandsche stoomb maats, amsterdam. passage fowey for amsterdam. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 108hp, single shaft. cargo of china clay. foundered due to a leak near the tail shaft. one man lost.

Year of registration: 1975

Water depth above wreck: 28 meter, Height above seabed: 82 cm

Known since: 1975, last detected: 20180206

Details measurements/cartography: H1286/75/290 24.7.75 WK LOCATED BY DIVERS IN 503900N, 003900W [OGB] USING DECCA. ESTABLISHED THAT WK IS OF A SMALL COASTER, WITH CENTRE WHEELHOUSE WHICH WAS CONSTRUCTED OF TIMBER, ONE HOLD FORWARD OF WHEELHOUSE, BOILER & ENGINE ROOM AFT. HULL INTACT, ANCHORS STILL IN POSN. HOLE APPROX 5FT DIAMETER IN HULL APPROX MIDSHIPS ON STARBOARD SIDE. NAME NOT KNOWN. (T F BARWICK, 23.7.75). CHART AS USC 15MTRS. BR STD. H2318/74 18.9.75 WK EXAM'D 8.7.75 IN 503907N, 003654W [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 19.8MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 28MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 29MTRS. WK IS APPROX. 80MTRS IN LENGTH. LIES 085/265DEGS. THE HIGHEST POINT WAS FOUND AT THE EASTERN END, THIS IS THE POSN QUOTED ABOVE. (SCES, HI 62/75). AMEND TO WK 19.8MTRS [10FMS 5FT] IN REVISED POSN.

- NM BLOCK 980/76. H1310/80/24 2.7.80 POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS THE 'ZAANSTROOM'. BUILT AMSTERDAM 1895. (T F BARWICK, WALTHAM ABBEY). H1310/84/6 9.3.84 HULL & DECKS REMAIN UPRIGHT. WHEELHOUSE COLLAPSED. FORWARD SECTION GENERALLY IN POOR CONDITION. LEAST DEPTH 22 TO 25MTRS. (M J BURPITT, 28.2.84). NCA. H1310/85/26 23.8.85 AN SS LESS THAN 200FT LONG, UPRIGHT AND INTACT. HEIGHT 25 IN GEN DEPTH 110FT. (M WALSH, 19.8.85). NCA. HH091/002/01 22.10.02 EXAM'D 26.7.02 IN 5039.137N, 0036.987W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 20.6 IN GEN DEPTH 30MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 23.3 IN GEN DEPTH 30MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 30MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. DCS3 HT 3.0MTRS. LIES 100/280DEGS. MODERATE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT AND UPRIGHT. (NP 1016, HI 1002). DCS3 LENGTH PROBABLY IN ERROR. BR STD. 17.12.04 DIVED JULY '04. REMAINS OF CARGO IN HOLDS AND VISIBLE AS WHITE STREAKS ON SANDY SEABED. LIES UPRIGHT, SIDES OF HULL ROTTED IN MANY PLACES AND MAIN DECK MOSTLY COLLAPSED. CARGO-HANDLING CRANES LOCATED ON EITHER SIDE OF HOLDS. SPARE PROPELLER & SECTION OF SHAFT ON STERN. PHOTOS OF PROPELLER & CARGO CRANE BASE. (DIVER MAGAZINE DEC'04) SEP 2018/000198963 13.08.18 EXAM'D 06.02.18; IN 5039.142N, 0036.971W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 19.89MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 28MTRS, LENGTH 67MTRS, WIDTH 10.8MTRS, HEIGHT 6.6MTRS, ORIENTATION 082/262 DEGS. LINEAR STRUCTURES LYING ON BOTH SIDES, EXTEND THE OVERALL WIDTH. SITS UPRIGHT BUT SEVERELY DEGRADED WITH ONLY THE LOWER PARTS OF THE HULL PRESENT &TWO PROMINENT KEEL FEATURES AT THE BOW &STERN. BOW ENE. THE SECTION FORWARD OF THE SINGLE IDENTIFIABLE BOILER &ENGINE HAS COLLAPSED MORE THAN THAT TOWARDS THE AFT. ON THE COLLAPSED FORWARD SECTION ARE THE REMAINS OF FOUR CARGO HANDLING CRANES. (MMT, HI 1498). AMEND DW 19.8MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: SITS UPRIGHT BUT SEVERELY DEGRADED.

Position: 50 39.142 N,0 36.971 W

 

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