This is the information page about the shipwreck Ciscar, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 10 N,17 40 W (49.166666666667, -17.666666666667)

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: CISCAR

Length 80.8 meter, width: 12.5 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 1809 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,personnel

Cause: built in 1919 by h & c grayson with triple expansion engine of 271nhp for 10.5kts. machinery by rollo & sons. owned at time of loss by macandrews & co. passage bristol for gibraltar in convoy. torpedoed by u-201. (dods & axis submarine successes, wartime standaed ships, ll ww2, ww2sl).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 4000 meter

Known since: 1941, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: 10.4.72 SINKING POSN 491000N, 174000W. (WARTIME STANDARD SHIPS VOL 3). 7.7.87 SINKING POSN AS ABOVE. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES), OR 600M W OF USHANT. (DODS). FOR FILING ONLY.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 10 N,17 40 W

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