This is the information page about the shipwreck Addah, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 47 22.94 N,4 59.25 W (47.207333333333, -5.0263333333333)

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: ADDAH

Length 106.7 meter, width: 14.6 meter, draught: 6.1, tonnage 4397 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: vessel, built 1905 by palmer & co, was torpedoed & sunk by a submarine 35m sw of penmarc'h. vessel was abandoned & the submarine surfaced & began sheling the 2 lifeboats, 1 boat was sunk. 9 were killed & several injured. owned at the time of loss by elder dempster line. (dods). sunk while on passage from montreal to cherbourg. (ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 130 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: 19.9.72 WK REPD 35M SW OF PENMARCH. (DODS). NCA. 20.5.80 NDW PA IN 472257N, 045912W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 2645. 20.1.87 SHOWN AS NDW PA IN 472300N, 045910W ON FR 6989 [1986 EDN]. NC 2643. 15.6.88 SHOWN AS NDW PD ON FR 7067 [1987 EDN]. NCA. 20.6.88 CLEARANCE UNKNOWN BUT OVER 20MTRS, IN 472300N, 045910W [EUR]. POSN ACCURACY 1M. GEN DEPTH 130MTRS. (FR WK RECORDS 1987, NO.14574103). NCA. HH175/400/03 4.9.03 NOW WK USC PD 105MTRS. (FRENCH NM 03 35 08). BR STD. 30.9.08 SHOWN AS WK USCPD 100MTRS ON FRENCH 7076 [NC 2008, 1:350,000]. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 47 22.94 N,4 59.25 W

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