This is the information page about the shipwreck Athenia, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 44.348 N,14 22.507 W (56.5, -14.166666666667)

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: ATHENIA

Length 160.3 meter, width: 20.1 meter, draught: 11.6, tonnage 13581 ton

Cause: built in 1923 by fairfield co. owned at time of loss by the donaldson line. turbine engines for 15.5kts. passage glasgow for montreal. torpedoed and sunk by u-30. 1418 passengers and crew. 128 lives were lost. was sunk within a few hours of the declaration of ww2.

Year of registration: 1939

Water depth above wreck: 189 meter, Height above seabed: 45 cm

Known since: 1939, last detected: 2005

Details measurements/cartography: H034/39 3.9.39 REPORTED SUNK IN 564200N, 140500W. (TELEGRAM). 3.8.87 SANK IN 564400N, 140500W. (WW2SL; AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). IN ABOUT 225MTRS. SUNK APPROX 250 MILES WEST OF INISHTRAHULL, CO DONEGAL. (DOD). 21.5.07 SEP 2007/000038416 21.5.07 WK OF ATHENIA LOCATED IN 5644.348N, 1422.507W [WGD] USING DGPS. GEN DEPTH 189MTRS. LENGTH 139MTRS, WIDTH 29MTRS, HT 19.3MTRS. (INSS SURVEY 1999-2005). LIES 045/215 DEGS. BROKEN UP WITH SW END DETACHED. SCOUR CLOSE TO WK. INS AS WK 178MTRS.

- NM 3178/07.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: BROKEN UP, SW END DETACHED, SCOUR AROUND WK

Position: 56 44.348 N,14 22.507 W

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