This is the information page about the shipwreck Akassa, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 27.864 N,8 47.228 W (51.300333333333, -9.084)

 

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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.

 

1. Akassa
2. Alliance ii
3. Ardent ii
4. Bell rose
5. Caliph
6. Carol anne
7. City of chicago
8. Cliftonian
9. Counsellor
10. Dinah b
11. Earl of lathom
12. Faulconnler
13. Gafsa
14. Ghazee
15. Hms alyssum (probably)
16. Hms mignonette
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18. Iwate
19. Juliet (possibly)
20. Kayside
21. Kilgerran castle
22. Kinsale western bridge
23. Kinsale western bridge
24. Kinsale western bridge
25. Kinsale western bridge
26. Kinsale western bridge
27. Kinsale western bridge
28. Ludgate
29. Lusitania
30. Norwegian
31. Pegu
32. Rosses morn
33. Spectator (probably)
34. U 260

 

Name: AKASSA

Length 109.7 meter, width: 15.2 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 3919 ton
Load: personnel,general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1910 by irvine's shipbuilding & drydock co ltd, west hartlepool. owned at time of loss by elder lines ltd. three boilers, triple expansion engine of 370 nhp, single shaft. passage liverpool for sierra leone. torpedoed in the engine room without warning by uc-33, all 7 seven on watch below being lost. (sii).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 93 meter, Height above seabed: 13 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2014

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK 8M SE OF GALLEY HEAD. GIVES POSN 512745N, 084600W APPROX. NCA. H6907/29 POSN APPROX ONLY IN ABOUT 50FMS. NCA. 5.2.71 INS AS NDW PA IN 512745N, 084600W. NE 1824B. 30.6.76 AMEND TO WK USC PA 65MTRS. NC 2092. H1310/85/27 10.9.85 WK LOCATED IN 512749N, 084705W [OSI]. POSN BY DECCA. (G WILLIAMS, 17.8.85). AMEND POSN. BR STD. SEP 2014/000158197 7.8.14 EXAM'D 15.7.13 IN 5127.864N, 0847.228W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 82.41 IN GEN DEPTH 93.7MTRS. SCOUR 11.3MTRS DEEP. LENGTH 105MTRS, WIDTH 22MTRS, HT 10.2MTRS. LIES 013/193 DEGS. WK IS PARTIALLY BROKEN DOWN. (RV CELTIC VOYAGER, CV02_13, INFOMAR). SCOUR AT ENDS. AMEND WK 82MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, GENERALLY BROKEN DOWN, SCOUR AT ENDS

Position: 51 27.864 N,8 47.228 W

 

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