This is the information page about the shipwreck Zeeland (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 56.223 N,1 9.782 W (54.937050, -1.163033)

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: ZEELAND (POSSIBLY)

Length 70.4 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 1293 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built in 1970 by v/h rijkee & co., rotterdam, with triple expansion engines of 147np, single shaft. owned at time of loss by scheepvaart-en-steenkolen maats nv. passage methil for rouen. captured by ub 39 and sunk by gunfire. (sibi)

Year of registration: 1959

Water depth above wreck: 51 meter, Height above seabed: 5 cm

Known since: 1959, last detected: 1988

Details measurements/cartography: H7018/58 12.11.59 H7018/58 12.11.59 WK LOCATED IN 545612N, 010944W. LEAST E/S DEPTH 148 IN GEN DEPTH 173FT. PARTIALLY CLEARED BY OPOPESA SWEEP TO 14FMS. (HMS SCOTT). INS AS NDW. BR STD. H2433/71 21.4.71 H2433/71 21.4.71 THREE CONTACTS OBTAINED OFF THIS WK DURING AREA SONAR SEARCH. (ISS, ROS DTD 31.12.70). NCA. 8.6.72 8.6.72 SHOWN AS WK 24FMS. NE 1192. 15.5.73 15.5.73 SHOWN AS WK 45MTRS. NC 152. 3.12.75 3.12.75 NOW SHOWN AS WK 44MTRS [LAT]. (CHANGE OF DATUM). NC 152. H4871/68 12.10.78 H4871/68 12.10.78 WK LIES N/S. STANDS 10MTRS ABOVE SEABED IN GEN DEPTH 54MTRS. LENGTH 25MTRS. POSN 545613N, 010941W. (E MARGRETT, WIMPEY LAB LTD 11.9.78). AMEND POSN. BR STD. H4908/79 9.7.80 H4908/79 9.7.80 SS ZEELAND SANK IN 545525N, 010950W APPROX. (A C CROTHALL) LATER: WRECK IN THIS POSN NOW IDENTIFIED AS HOGARTH [SEE 5708]. H6330/87 14.11.88 H6330/87 14.11.88 EXAMINED 28.5.87 IN 545613N, 010941W [OGB] USING TRISPONDER [7 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 42.7 IN GEN DEPTH 51.4MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 51.9MTRS. DCS3 HT 9.4MTRS, LENGTH 92MTRS, WIDTH 10MTRS. LIES, PROBABLY ON ITS SIDE, 005/185DEGS. (GARDLINE, HI 414A). AMEND TO WK 43MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: PROBABLY ON ITS SIDE

Position: 54 56.223 N,1 9.782 W

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