This is the information page about the shipwreck Black osprey, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 61 30 N,18 10 W (61.5, -18.166666666667)

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: BLACK OSPREY

Length 124.7 meter, width: 16.5 meter, draught: 8.2, tonnage 5589 ton

Cause: built in 1918 by skinner & eddy corp. owned at time of loss by ministry of shipping (cairn line of steamships). turbine engine of 508nhp for 10.5 knots. passage halifax for newport in convoy. developed engine trouble & straggled from convoy when funnel caught fire. torpedoed by u-96. 25 men lost. (dods & axis submaribne successes).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 2330 meter

Known since: 1941

Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 611300N, 181000W. 23.7.87 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 613000N, 181000W. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 61 30 N,18 10 W

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