This is the information page about the shipwreck Aepos, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 44.866 N,1 45.322 W (55.747767, -1.755367)

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: AEPOS

Length 51.9 meter, width: 8 meter, draught: 4.1, tonnage 519 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined

Cause: ex-tokel '19, ex-uman. built in 1873 by w lindbergs warfs & werkstads ab, stockholm. owned at time of loss by pappalas & collakis. one boiler, compound expansion engine of 100nhp, single shaft. passage rotterdam for borrowstoutness, firth of forth. sprang a leak 25 miles off the longstone lt, farne islands. was abandoned and left drifting in a westerly direction 15 miles e of holy island.

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 60 meter, Height above seabed: 232 cm

Known since: 1918, last detected: 20200326

Details measurements/cartography: H2392/33 4.5.33 SWEPT TO LEAST DEPTH OF 95 FT IN GEN DEPTH 180-190 FT. POSN 544420N, 014318W. (HMS FITZROY). H3018/54 18.2.65 INS AS NDW PA. NC 1192. H4622/71 14.9.72 AMEND TO WK USC PA 28MTRS. NC 160. H4271/71 3.8.77 AMEND TO WK USC PA 40MTRS. BR STD. 19.1.00 PA DELETED. POSN WAS SURVEYED. BR STD. 18.6.01 WK LOCATED IN 5544.857N, 0145.338W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 48.4 IN GEN DEPTH 60MTRS. HT 7.1MTRS. CONSIDERED TO BE NETTED. (GARDLINE, HN DTD 16.6.01). BR STD. HH090/915/01 18.1.02 EXAM'D 31.5.01 IN 5544.857N, 0145.339W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 48.4 IN GEN DEPTH 60MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 46MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS. DCS3 HT 7.1MTRS. LIES 040/220DEGS WITH BOWS 220DEGS. POOR MAGNETIC ANOMALY. DEBRIS EXTENDS 10MTRS TOWARDS 040DEGS FROM THE STERN. INTACT AND UPRIGHT. (GARDLINE, HI 915). BR STD. 14.12.11 WAS DIVED 8.8.03 BY THE DARKSTAR TEAM. HAS BEEN POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS SS AEPOS. (M DIXON, EMAIL DTD 14.12.11). NCA. SEP 2021/000090526 1.4.21 EXAM'D 26.3.20 IN 5544.866N, 0145.322W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 55.79MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 60MTRS, LENGTH 46MTRS, WIDTH 8MTRS, HT 5.1MTRS, ORIENTATION 232/052 DEGS. WK UPRIGHT AND MOSTLY INTACT WITH STERN BROKEN UP. (MERITAITO, HI1591). AMEND NDW 55MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, BOWS SW

Position: 55 44.866 N,1 45.322 W

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