This is the information page about the shipwreck Argonaut (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 8.569 N,4 17.306 W (48.915666666667, -4.3681666666667)

 

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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. Adieu-va
2. Akaroa
3. Amina
4. Anna
5. Argonaut
6. Argonaut (possibly)
7. Barbro (possibly)(or hovde)
8. Batavia
9. Bellamy
10. Castro
11. Christina coast
12. Cornelis b
13. Crane barge
14. Danevirke
15. Eumaeus
16. Fremona
17. Garthelyde
18. Golden dawn
19. Hovde (possibly) or barbro
20. Kristina coast
21. Lagardere
22. Moroe (or horde)
23. Mount carmel
24. No. 487
25. Norma
26. Oswald
27. Rene marthe
28. Setubal
29. Tanio (bow only)
30. Welsh princess
31. Zelza
32. Zh 1

 

Name: ARGONAUT (POSSIBLY)

Length 121.2 meter, width: 14.5 meter, draught: 8.4, tonnage 4826 ton

Cause: built in 1893 by harland & wolff, with triple expansion engines of 483nhp. owned at time of loss by jason navigation corporation. torpedoed and sunk by a german submarine. (dods). passage norfolk, virginia for ?. (ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 92 meter

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: 5.6.18 SUNK IN 490800N, 042400W. (U BOAT FILE). SUNK IN 491200N, 064500W. (LL WW1). 14.4.78 SHOWN AS UNKNOWN WK 90MTRS IN 490837.8N, 041712W IN GEN DEPTH 92MTRS. (AUTHORITY NOT KNOWN, ?FRENCH CHART). INS AS WK 49FMS. 10.8.87 SHOWN AS WK 90MTRS ON FRENCH 6680 [1986 EDN]. HEIGHT ABOVE SEABED 2MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS). 28.6.99 EUR POSN: 4908.629N, 0417.216W. NOTED AS DIFFUSION LIMITEE. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1999). AMENDED TO CINC. AMEND POSN. BR STD. 24.2.09 SHOWN IN 4908.569N, 0417.306W [WGD] ON FRENCH 6680 [3RD EDN 2003, CORRECT TO NM 42 29 08, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NC 2647.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 8.569 N,4 17.306 W

 

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