This is the information page about the shipwreck Apapa, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 34 N,16 47 W (54.633333333333, -16.666666666667)

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: APAPA

Length 137.5 meter, width: 18.9 meter, draught: 9.4, tonnage 9333 ton

Cause: built in 1927 by harland wolff. owned at time of loss by elder dempster line. oil engine of 1651 nhp for 14.5 knots. bombed & sunk by german aircraft. 23 lost. (dods).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 2200 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 543400N, 164700W. 11.8.87 SINKING POSN AS ABOVE PLOTS IN APPROX 2200MTRS. (WW2SL). SUNK APPROX 200 MILES W OF ACHILL HEAD, COUNTY MAYO. (DODS).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 34 N,16 47 W

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