This is the information page about the shipwreck Chrisso, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 40 52.68 N,9 39.72 E (40.966666666667, 9.9666666666667)

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: CHRISSO

Length 91.4 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1929 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: vessel, built 1958 by heinrich brand, oldenburg. owned at time of loss by hero shipping co. ltd. on passage from skikda for spezia. ran aground during storm force winds & sank. crew of 18 safe. (msd).

Year of registration: 1974

Water depth above wreck: 3 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1974, last detected: 2023

Details measurements/cartography: 2.1.75 GROUNDED ON NE COAST SARDINIA, AT PORTO CAVERNA (?TAVERNA), NEAR THE ISLANDS OF TAVOLARA & MOLARA. SHOWS AT ALL STATES OF TIDE. (LL 219). H4644/74 2.11.87 RUSTED STRANDED WK, APPARENTLY BROKEN IN TWO BUT WITH MASTS & SAMPSON POSTS STILL STANDING, OBSERVED IN ESTIMATED POSN 405237N, 093937E IN SEP 1987. (J A CRILL, 20.10.87). CHART AS ST. BR STD. HH368/350/01 18.12.91 ST IN TWO PARTS, WHICH BOTH SHOW, IN 405236N, 093948E [MOD]. SUPERSTRUCTURE & CARGO DERRICKS CONSTITUTE A DANGER. UNLIKELY TO BE SALVAGED. (GENOA NMS 23.1 & 23.24/91).

- NM 106/92. HH372/420/01 12.8.92 REPEAT OF ABOVE. (ITALIAN NM 13.3/92). NFA. [WGD] POSN: 4052.638N, 0939.780E. SEP 2015/000236338 2.11.15 ST WK IN 4052.68N, 0939.72E [WGD]. (ITALIAN NM 20/6/15). MOVE TO REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: IN TWO PARTS

Position: 40 52.68 N,9 39.72 E

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