This is the information page about the shipwreck Avelona star, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 46 46 N,12 17 W (47, -12)

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: AVELONA STAR

Length 155.4 meter, width: 20.7 meter, draught: 13.1, tonnage 13376 ton
Load: foodstuffs: solid,foodstuffs: preserved

Cause: built in 1927 by j borwn & co. owned at time of loss by blue star line. turbine engines of 1842nhp for 16 knots. passage buenos aires for london. torpedoed by u-43 and sank the following day. 4 men lost. (ll ww2, dods, axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 4400 meter

Known since: 1940

Details measurements/cartography: 24.2.96 24.2.96 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 464600N, 121700W. (NO AUTHORITY STATED ON CARD BUT ALL REFERENCE BOOKS AGREE).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 46 46 N,12 17 W

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