This is the information page about the shipwreck Athenic, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 32 N,20 13 W (58.43595, -2.5026666666667)

 

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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.

 

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60. Viking (probably)

 

Name: ATHENIC

Length 125.9 meter, width: 17.4 meter, draught: 8.2, tonnage 5351 ton

Cause: built 1937 by w grey & co. owned at time of loss by sir walter h cockerline. triple expansion engine of 400nhp. torpedoed & sunk by u-46 & u-73. (dods & axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 2600 meter

Known since: 1941, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 583200N, 201300W (D.S.N.E. 578.579). 27.7.87 SINKING POSN AS ABOVE PLOTS IN APPROX 2500 MTRS. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 32 N,20 13 W

 

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