This is the information page about the shipwreck Achaios (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 34 36.283 N,32 55.733 E (34.58945, 32.933333333333)

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: ACHAIOS (POSSIBLY)

Length 77.7 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 6.1, tonnage 1545 ton
Load: timber

Cause: built in 1932 by a/s porsgrunn m/v, porsgrunn. owned at time of loss by akarnania maritime co ltd. passage yugoslavia for jeddah. cargo timber. ran aground in heavy seas. no lives lost.

Year of registration: 1976

Water depth above wreck: 3 meter

Known since: 1976, last detected: 2001

Details measurements/cartography: 10.12.76 AGROUND IN 343700N, 325500E, APPROX. LIKELY TO BREAK UP. (LL 6.12.76). 5.1.77 STRANDED ON W SIDE AKROTIRI PENINSULA ABOUT 0.5 MILE N OF WK OF SS THREE STARS. (LL 24.12.76). 22.3.77 STILL AGROUND. NO SALVAGE PLANNED. (LL 22.3.77). 11.8.78 NO SALVAGE ATTEMPT YET MADE. (LL 12.8.78). HH395/421/01 13.3.91 WK STRANDED IN 343610N, 325542E IS CONSPICUOUS AT A DISTANCE OF 5 MILES. (HMS CHARYBDIS, HN 14.2.91). NCA. HH180/351/01 26.3.91 POSN CORRECT. DETECTED BOTH VISUALLY AND BY RADAR. OBSERVED TO BE INTACT WITH ACCOMMODATATION, MAST AND PART FORECASTLE REMAINING. (RFA OLMEDA, HN 16.2.91). HH395/421/01 5.4.91 REPORTED AS CONSPICUOUS. PHOTO CONFIRMS WK COVERED AMIDSHIPS BUT FO'C'SLE AND ACCOMMODATION WELL CLEAR. (HMS ARK ROYAL, HN 20.2.91). HH180/351/01 23.7.91 WK VERY CONSPICUOUS. PHOT INDICATES VESSEL WITH STBD LIST, STERN AND ACCOMMODATION, INTACT MAST AND STUMP OF SAMSOM POST FORWARD OF BRIDGE SHOWING CLEARLY. (HMS HUNTER, HN 18.6.91). 13.3.91 ST SHOWN IN 343608N, 325542E [UND] ON 850. (REPORTED PRIOR TO AUGUST 1964). HH180/351/01 23.7.91 ADD LEGEND (CONSPIC).

- NM 2233/91. 28.1.92 SHOWN AS ST (CONSPIC) IN 343617N, 325544E [WGD] ON NC F6149. HH090/916/01 7.8.02 NOTED AS BEING CLEARLY VISIBLE AT ALL STATES OF THE TIDE. POSN CONFIRMED BY COMPASS INTERSECTION FROM 1.5 MILES OFFSHORE. (HMS HERALD, HI 916). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 34 36.283 N,32 55.733 E

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