This is the information page about the shipwreck Chateau lafite, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 47 44.969 N,4 39.971 W (47.499, -4.5013333333333)

 

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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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Name: CHATEAU LAFITE

Length 83.5 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 1913 ton

Cause: built 1914 by atel & ch de la loire. owned at the time of loss by worms & cie. passage bordeaux for dunkirk. torpedoed & sunk by german submarine u84 in the bay of biscay. (dods & ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1919

Water depth above wreck: 90 meter

Known since: 1919, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: H1691/19 11.7.19 NDW PD IN 474500N, 044000W. (PARIS NM). BR STD. H444/445/31 28.1.31 NOW CHARTED AS NDW. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 2351. H4737/63 19.12.63 NOT SHOWN ON FRENCH 6377. BR STD. 17.5.79 SHOWN AS NDW PD ON FRENCH CHARTS. NE 2351. 23.5.84 NDW PD IN 474502N, 043952W. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1984). NC 2351. 20.1.87 SHOWN AS WK USC PA 45MTRS ON FRENCH 6989 [1986 EDN]. NC 2643. 18.5.88 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 45MTRS ON FRENCH 7067 [1987 EDN]. NCA. H1271/88 19.5.88 WK USC 45MTRS IN 474502N, 043952W [EUR]. POSN ACCURACY 1M. GEN DEPTH 65MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987, NO.14574035). BR STD. 18.5.00 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 45MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 90MTRS ON FRENCH 7147 [1988 EDN]. NC 2819. 29.10.09 SHOWN IN 4744.969N, 0439.971W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7147 [2ND EDN 2008, 1:50,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NE 2819.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 47 44.969 N,4 39.971 W

 

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