This is the information page about the shipwreck Akaroa, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 20.94 N,4 24.09 W (49.132383333333, -4.3681)

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: AKAROA

Length 67.4 meter, width: 11.3 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 1348 ton
Load: oil

Cause: passage philadelphia for rouen. sunk by submarine 70m w of the casquettes. (ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 85 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 70M W OF THE CASQUETTES. (LL WW1). H1690/19 16.7.19 H1690/19 16.7.19 WK IN 492100N, 042400W. (PARIS NM). INS AS WK [OLD SYMBOL]. BR STD. H1291/28 H1291/28 AMEND SYMBOL TO NDW (1917). BR STD. 9.1.78 9.1.78 NOT SHOWN ON FRENCH 6680 [INT 1708] BUT LISTED IN FRENCH WRECK RECORDS. NCA. 7.1.82 7.1.82 AMENDED TO WK USC 71MTRS. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NC 2655. 10.8.87 10.8.87 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 62MTRS ON FRENCH 6680 [1986 EDN]. WAS NOT FOUND BY LA MOA IN 1974. (FRENCH WK RECORDS). 8.8.89 8.8.89 AMENDED TO WK USC PD 62MTRS. NC 2664 & NC 2668. 8.8.89 8.8.89 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 492300N, 041900W. (NORWEGIAN WW1 LOSSES). NCA. 21.5.09 21.5.09 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 62MTRS IN 4920.940N, 0424.096W [WGD] ON FRENCH 2647 [INT 1708] [4TH EDN 2008, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION) NE 2647.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 20.94 N,4 24.09 W

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