This is the information page about the shipwreck Afrika (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 60 34.062 N,6 55.536 E (60.5677, 6.9256)

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: AFRIKA (POSSIBLY)

Length 146 meter, width: 18.9 meter, draught: 10.1, tonnage 8597 ton

Cause: built 1915 by akt. ges. weser with quadruple expansion engines of 750nhp. owned at time of loss by atlas reederei akt. ges. sprang a leak during heavy weather & sank off halten banks, norway. (dods).

Year of registration: 1936

Water depth above wreck: 21 meter

Known since: 1936, last detected: 2016

Details measurements/cartography: 10.11.54 WK SHOWN IN 603357N, 065600E ON NORWEGIAN 208 [1954 EDN]. NCA. H7059/54 3.5.57 REMAINS OF "AFRIKA" IN 603406N, 065540E. (OSLO NM 207/57). NCA, BA 2291 STS. 12.8.99 SHOWN AS NDW IN 6034.100N, 0655.667E [EUR]. NC 288. 7.4.05 NO LONGER CHARTED, AREA BLUED OUT. NE 288. EXISTING SCALES TOO SMALL. 9.8.08 NDW SHOWN IN 6034.070N, 0655.557E [WGD] ON NORWEGIAN 118 [JUL '06 EDN, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NC 3565. SEP 2015/000016087 28.2.16 NDW SHOWN IN 6034.062N, 0655.536E [WGD] ON NORWEGIAN 118. [ED DEC 2015, CORR TO 18.12.15]. AMEND TO REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 60 34.062 N,6 55.536 E

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