This is the information page about the shipwreck City of tampico, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 47 42.966 N,4 18.969 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.

 

1. Ajax
2. Amzer zo
3. Arthemis
4. Berwind
5. Cardiff (possibly)
6. Cilurnum
7. City of tampico
8. Cote de grace (possibly)
9. Dagny
10. Domino
11. Drade
12. Equebouille
13. Falk
14. Fleur de lisieux
15. Gerfaut
16. Harry luckenbach
17. Henri le cour
18. Kanaris
19. Kong inge
20. L'entente
21. La marie simone (possibly)
22. Lake portage
23. Lapous moor
24. Le roger
25. Les enfants de la cote
26. Ma colombe
27. Mai deut
28. Mascaret
29. Melrose abbey
30. Myrdal
31. Noble art
32. Nomade
33. Notre dame
34. P.l.m 9
35. Pampero
36. Papillon des mers
37. Pourquoi pas
38. Saint guenael
39. Sea breeze
40. Theodore botrel
41. Vp 720
42. War captain
43. War patrol
44. War song (possibly)

 

Name: CITY OF TAMPICO

Length 78 meter, width: 11.3 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1513 ton
Load: coal

Cause: built 1905 by bergens mek verks. owned at the time of loss by harloff & rodseth. passage from manchester to nantes. sunk by a german submarine in the bay of biscay. (dods & ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 84 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: H1691/19 11.7.19 NDW PD IN 474300N, 041900W. (PARIS NM). BR STD. 19.12.63 NOT SHOWN ON FRENCH 6377. DELETE. BR STD. 17.5.79 SHOWN AS NDW PD IN 474300N, 041900W ON FRENCH 6791 [1979 EDN]. NE 2351. 23.5.84 NDW PD IN 474302N, 041853W. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1984). NC 2351. 20.1.87 SHOWN AS NDW PA ON FRENCH 6989 [1986 EDN]. NC 2643. 24.5.88 SHOWN AS NDW PD ON FRENCH 7067 [1987 EDN]. NCA. 25.5.88 WK, CLEARANCE UNKNOWN BUT OVER 20MTRS, IN 474302N, 041852.5W [EUR]. POSN ACCURACY 1M [=PA]. GEN DEPTH 90MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987, NO.14574045). NCA. HH353/351/01 16.2.89 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 55MTRS ON FRENCH 7146 [1988 EDN]. INS AS WK USC PA 55MTRS. BR STD. 13.8.01 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 55MTRS IN 4743.033N, 0418.883W [EUR] ON FRENCH 7146 [1993 EDN]. SHOWN ON BA 2820 [2000 EDN]. 29.10.09 SHOWN IN 4742.966N, 0418.969W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7146 [3RD EDN 2009, 1:50,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NE 2820.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 47 42.966 N,4 18.969 W

 

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