This is the information page about the shipwreck Argonaut, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 7.94 N,4 24.09 W (48.915666666667, -4.3681666666667)

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: ARGONAUT

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 from norfolk, virginia. (ll ww1). torpedoed and sunk by german submarine u-82. (der krieg zur see).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 77 meter

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: 5.6.18 SUNK IN 490800N, 042400W. (U BOAT FILE). [SEE ALSO WK 22751]. H1271/80 9.6.80 SHOWN AS NDW IN 490800N, 042400W [EUR] ON FRENCH 6680D [1980 EDN]. BR STD. 10.8.87 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 50MTRS ON FRENCH 6680 [1986 EDN]. NCA. 22.11.94 SHOWN AS WK USC 50MTRS IN 490800N, 042400W [EUR] ON FRENCH 7311 [1994 EDN, 1:345,0000]. BR STD. 24.2.09 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 50MTRS IN 4907.940N, 0424.090W [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

Commentaar onderzoeker: See Also: 22751

Position: 49 7.94 N,4 24.09 W

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