This is the information page about the shipwreck Accra, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 40 N,16 28 W (55.716666666667, -16.416666666667)

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: ACCRA

Length 137.5 meter, width: 18.9 meter, draught: 9.4, tonnage 9337 ton
Load: personnel,personnel

Cause: built in 1926 by harland & wolff. owned at time of loss by elder dempster line. oil engines of 1700nhp for 14.5 knots. passage for west africa in convoy. torpedoed by u-34. 19 lost. (dods & axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 450 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 554300N, 162500W. H01001/40 18.11.40 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 554000N, 162800W. (O.U.6353/40). NO ACTION. 6.8.87 SINKING POSN AS ABOVE PLOTS IN APPROX 450MTRS. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 55 40 N,16 28 W

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