Wreck: Alkmini (Carrier)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Alkmini, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 36.807 N,3 40.183 W (49.4055, -3.5834166666667)
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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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Shipwreck details
Name: ALKMINI
Length 126.1 meter, width: 17.1 meter, draught: 9.7, tonnage 5476 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,scrap metal,ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined
Cause: built in 1967 by hashihama zosen, imabari. owned at time of loss by alkmini shipping co. passage antwerp for oran. sank following a collision with spanish mv 'duro seis'. crew recovered. (msd).
Year of registration: 1981
Water depth above wreck: 73 meter, Height above seabed: 154 cm
Known since: 1981, last detected: 2006
Details measurements/cartography: H4287/77 2.6.81 H4287/77 2.6.81 WK 33MTRS IN 493648N, 034015W [OGB]. BUOYS REMOVED. (TH, 1.6.81).
- NM 1349/81. 8.5.84 8.5.84 WK IN ABOVE POSN REPORTED BY FISHERMAN USING DECCA. SAID TO BE SMALL, BUT EASY TO LOCATE. (E GILES, TELECON). NCA. H1311/88/60 15.12.88 H1311/88/60 15.12.88 POSN CONFIRMED, STANDING VERY HIGH. (T ALLEN, 14.11.88). NCA. HH091/059/01 9.5.05 HH091/059/01 9.5.05 EXAM'D 14.4.04 IN 4936.807N, 0340.183W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 56.8 IN GEN DEPTH 73.7MTRS. SCOUR <0.5MTR DEEP EXTENDS 15MTRS TOWARDS 180 DEGS. LENGTH 120MTRS, WIDTH 24MTRS, HT 16.9MTRS. LIES 154/334 DEGS WITH BOWS TOWARDS 154 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. INTACT, COLLAPSED. (GARDLINE, HI 1059). AMEND WK 56MTRS. BR STD. 26.7.06 26.7.06 DCS3 SHOWS MODERN WK. LARGE, SOME 100-125MTRS. QUITE BROKEN UP. (ODYSSEY MARINE INTERNATIONAL). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, COLLAPSED, BOWS SSE
Position: 49 36.807 N,3 40.183 W
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