This is the information page about the shipwreck Athelcrest, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 24 N,11 25 W (58.4, -11.416666666667)

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: ATHELCREST

Length 129.8 meter, width: 18 meter, draught: 10.4, tonnage 6825 ton
Load: flammable liquids and gases,oil

Cause: built in 1940 by sir j laing & sons. owned at time of loss by united molasses. passage aruba for london. torpedoed u 48. later sunk as a derelict by gunfire from hm ship. (llww2 & dods).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 1800 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: 9.2.78 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS APPROX 170M W OF LEWIS, HEBRIDES. (DODS). 28.7.87 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 582400N, 112500W. (WW2SL, AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES & LLWW2). PLOTS IN APPROX 1800MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 24 N,11 25 W

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