This is the information page about the shipwreck Castro, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 54.442 N,4 0.086 W (48.915666666667, -4.2681666666667)

 

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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.

 

1. Aboukir bay
2. Adieu-va
3. Alcide
4. Alppi
5. Argonaut (possibly)
6. Barbro (possibly)(or hovde)
7. Batavia
8. Bjerko
9. Bjerko (possibly)
10. Castro
11. Christina coast
12. Crane barge
13. Fremona
14. Germania
15. Henry r james
16. Holly branch
17. Hovde (possibly) or barbro
18. Kristina coast
19. Manchuria
20. Midland
21. Moroe (or horde)
22. No. 487
23. Nymphe de granville
24. Oswald
25. Petit metier
26. Plougasnou
27. Tanio (bow only)
28. Wilfried
29. Zelza

 

Name: CASTRO

Length 85.3 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 1994 ton

Cause: built 1897 by r napier & sons. owned at the time of loss by p d coruissiano. torpedoed & sunk by a german submarine. (dods). passage weymouth for barrow. (ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1919

Water depth above wreck: 81 meter

Known since: 1919, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: H1690/19 16.7.19 WK IN 485430N, 040000W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). INS AS WK [OLD SYMBOL]. BR STD. H1291/28 [NO DATE] AMEND TO NDW (1917). BR STD. H1128/63 12.3.63 INS AS NDW. NC 2644. 23.6.76 SHOWN AS NDW PA IN 485430N, 035954 [EUR] ON FRENCH 6031 [1975 EDN]. NCA. 26.8.77 SS 'CASTRO' LOCATED IN 485430N, 040000W [EUR]. GEN DEPTH 81MTRS BY V/S. (FRENCH WK RECORDS DTD 18.10.76). 2.9.77 SHOWN AS NDW ON FRENCH 6680 [1977 EDN]. 20.11.78 SHOWN AS NDW PA. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED) NE 2644. 11.4.80 SHOWN AS NDW ON FRENCH 970. NE 2644. 20.10.87 SHOWN AS WK USC 61MTRS ON FRENCH 6680 [1986 EDN]. ALSO LISTED IN FRENCH WK RECORDS, NO.14584006. HH351/353/01 16.5.89 SHOWN AS WK USC 61MTRS IN 485430N, 040000W [EUR] ON FRENCH 7151 [1988 EDN]. ALSO LISTED IN FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987. BR STD. 26.2.09 SHOWN IN 4854.442N, 0400.086W [WGD] ON FRENCH 6680 [3RD EDN 2003, CORRECT TO NM 42 29 08, 1:150,000, 2ND SCALE ADOPTION]. NC 2647.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 48 54.442 N,4 0.086 W

 

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