This is the information page about the shipwreck Amerika (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 39.128 N,5 18.256 E (53.41665, 5.0193833)

 

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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. Alexandra (possibly)
2. Amerika (possibly)
3. Ansi
4. Aqueity (possibly)
5. Arad
6. Aurora (lo 2)
7. Brittannia
8. Carona
9. Ecuador
10. Edmi (possibly)
11. Edorado
12. Elsie
13. Euroland
14. Garnes
15. Hansa
16. Heimdal
17. Heinrich onnen
18. Heinz otto
19. Hms lutine
20. Hmsm e3
21. Holland 8
22. Ilona
23. Iraja
24. Katowice
25. Kutahya
26. Leda
27. Maria johanna
28. Minister achenbach
29. Mula
30. Nobis
31. Oka 18
32. Otto
33. Panagathos
34. Peto
35. Ra
36. Sierra umbria
37. Sizilien (probably)
38. Sonnin
39. Steinbutt
40. Stolzenfels
41. Svanen
42. Thasos
43. Walsum 10
44. West aleta
45. West arvada (probably)
46. West falia
47. Westland
48. Wieringen 93
49. Wilfried

 

Name: AMERIKA (POSSIBLY)

Length 142.6 meter, width: 17.7 meter, draught: 9.8, tonnage 7463 ton

Cause: Built 1911 by swan hunter & wigham richardson. owned at time of loss by "atlas" reederei a.g. mined off terschelling. (dods).

Year of registration: 1942

Water depth above wreck: 26 meter

Known since: 1942, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: H01451/42 30.4.42 DW PA IN 533915N, 051554E. (ADMIRALTY). - FNM 886/42. H03017/44 24.8.44 DW SHOWN IN 533916N, 051830E ON GERMAN CHART. - FNM 1735/44. H3150/69 9.2.70 AMENDED TO WK 23.5MTRS IN 533910N, 051824E. [NETH 1969 POST NEW BROOM SURVEY]. BR STD. H2820/71 20.1.77 WK 25.6MTRS [14FMS], SHOWN IN 533910N, 051824E ON NETH SURVEY [K7626/3] MAY'76. 6.4.82 STILL SHOWN AS WK 23.5MTRS [12FMS 5FT], ON NETH 1352. NE 2593. H2114/83 14.5.86 SHOWN AS WK 24MTRS [13FMS] ON BLOCK CORR'N. (NETH NM 240/86 & NM 207/86). BR STD. 16.8.89 WK 24MTRS IN 533911.7N, 051825.5E. (NETH WK RECORDS, JAN'88 EDN, NO.M7 1105). BR STD. HH340/630/03 31.12.97 AMENDED TO WK 23MTRS IN 533912N, 051824E [EUR]. (NETH NM 52/583/97).

- NM 439/98. 13.10.05 SHOWN IN 5339.161N, 0518.327E [WGD] ON NETH 1633 [INT 1417] [OCT 05 EDN, CO-PRODUCTION]. NE 1633. 7.4.11 SHOWN AS WK 23.5MTRS IN 5339.137N, 0518.277E [WGD] ON BA 1633 [EDN 2 DTD 23.12.10].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 39.128 N,5 18.256 E

 

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