This is the information page about the shipwreck Ajax, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 47 52.711 N,4 32.206 W (47.79905, -4.4180666666667)

 

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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.

 

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Name: AJAX

Length 64 meter, width: 9.1 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1018 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore

Cause: vessel, built 1889 by w dobson & co, was torpedoed & sunk by a german submarine in the bay of biscay. owned at the time of loss by dampskibsselskabet ajax. (dods). sunk while on passage from bilbao to cardiff. (ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1919

Water depth above wreck: 58 meter

Known since: 1919, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: H1691/19 11.7.19 WK 64MTRS IN 475300N, 043300W. (PARIS NM). BR STD. 5.9.23 LEAST DEPTH 70MTRS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H6457/23 19.9.23 WK 54MTRS [29FMS] (1919) IN 475244N, 043216W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H444/31 28.1.31 NOW CHARTED AS NDW. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 2351. H939/57 18.10.57 SHOWN AS WK 54MTRS ON FRENCH 5316. BR STD. 23.5.84 WK 54MTRS IN 475246N, 043207W. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1984). 16.5.88 WK 54MTRS IN 475246N, 043207W [EUR]. POSN ACCURACY 500MTRS. GEN DEPTH 58MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987, NO.14574018). 18.5.00 SHOWN AS WK PA 54MTRS ON FRENCH 7147 [1998 EDN]. NC 2819. SEP 2009/000006389 2.2.09 WK PD 54MTRS SHOWN IN 4752.711N, 0432.206W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7147 [2ND EDN 2008, 1:50,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 47 52.711 N,4 32.206 W

 

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