This is the information page about the shipwreck Achille adam, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 23.448 N,0 51.918 E (50.6952667, 0.5621167)

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: ACHILLE ADAM

Length 57.9 meter, width: 8.2 meter, draught: 3.7, tonnage 460 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Channel steamship, built in 1887 by samuda bros. and owned at the time of loss by south eastern and chatham railway co., was captured and scuttled by german submarine 31m se by s of beachy head. 6 lives lost. (ww1sl & dods).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 33 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 1999

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 31M SE BY S FROM BEACHY HEAD. (DODS) 2.10.81 2.10.81 DW PD SHOWN IN 502330N, 005200E ON FRENCH 6824 [1981 EDN]. NC 2451. H3197/76 3.6.87 H3197/76 3.6.87 NOW SHOWN AS USC PD 20MTRS IN 502336N, 005154E [EUR] ON FRENCH NM BLOCK 87 18 15 FOR FRENCH 6824.

- NM BLOCK 2075/87. HH100/351/07 8.10.93 HH100/351/07 8.10.93 NOT FOUND DURING SEVERAL SEARCHES. MAY BE WK LOCATED IN 502041.5N, 004057.5E [SEE 20716]. (C MARTIN, TELECON 8.10.93). NCA YET. 30.3.99 30.3.99 SHOWN AS USC PD 20MTRS IN 5023.500N, 0052.000E [EUR] ON FRENCH 6824. OGB POSN: 5023.409N, 0052.018E. NC 2451. 4.1.11 4.1.11 [WGD] POSN: 5023.448N, 0051.918E.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 50 23.448 N,0 51.918 E

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