This is the information page about the shipwreck Chicaco, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 13.86 N,6 36.82 E (56.37155, 6.6903333)

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: CHICACO

Length 68 meter, width: 22.9 meter

Cause: 5.10.96 got into difficulties while on tow and subsequently capsized about 50 miles w of exbjerg on 5.10.96. sank on 13.10.96. passage copenhagen to bilbao.

Year of registration: 1996

Water depth above wreck: 40 meter, Height above seabed: 135 cm

Known since: 1996, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: HH331/500/01 16.10.96 SUNK IN 561400N, 063600E. DEPTH OVER WK IS UNKNOWN. (LYNGBY NAV WARNING 290/96). NCA YET. HH331/500/01 25.10.96 SUNK IN 561354N, 063654E. DEPTH OVER WK IS 24MTRS. MARKED BY MOORING BUOY. (LYNGBY NAV WARNING 302/96).

- NM 3860/96. HH331/500/01 6.11.96 ABOVE DETAILS REPEATED. SALVAGE OPERATIONS IN PROGRESS. (DANISH NM 43/1529(T)/96). NCA. HH331/500/01 12.11.96 DW PA IN 561400N, 063600E. (GERMAN NM 43/T(20)1001/96). NCA. HH331/500/01 24.10.97 WK IN 561354N, 063654E [WGD] APPROX. LIES NW/SE. LEAST DEPTH 24MTRS. (DANISH NM 41/1206/97). NCA. 24.5.99 REPORTED AS RAISED AND TOWED TO FLEKKEFJORD IN INVERTED POSN. PARTLY BLOWN UP IN SPRING 1988. (LLOYDS MONTHLY TOTAL LOSSES, APRIL 1999). NCA. 26.6.01 SHOWN AS WK PA 24MTRS ON DANISH 93 [INT 1044] [3RD EDN FEB'01, 1: 375,000]. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 56 13.86 N,6 36.82 E

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