Wreck: Dettifoss (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Dettifoss, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 5.351 N,5 32.663 W (55.089183, -5.544383)
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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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Shipwreck details
Name: DETTIFOSS
Length 72.2 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 1564 ton
Load: general and mixed goods
Cause: built in 1930 by frederikshavns vaerft & flydedok a/s, frederikshavn. owned at time of loss by iceland ss co. passage new york via belfast lough for iceland. torpedoed and sunk by german submarine u-1064. (wrecksite.eu)
Year of registration: 1945
Water depth above wreck: 115 meter, Height above seabed: 120 cm
Known since: 1945, last detected: 2020
Details measurements/cartography: H0109/45 22.2.45 WK IN 550500N, 053312W. (WESTERN APPROACHES LIST, WAGO 524, SIGNAL 22.2.45). 21.2.45 GOOD SONAR CONTACT, GOOD POSN 550530N, 053312W. LENGTH 270FT, HEIGHT 40FT, LYING 105/285DEGS. GAVE OFF OIL AND WRECKAGE. (AUBD 318/58, ESCORT GROUP 19). [NO DATE] POSITION 550500N, 053312W. (AUBD 318/60, C IN C, WESTERN APPROACHES). 25.7.69 SHOWN ON NC 2724. INS ON 2199. BR STD. H3671/72 21.7.72 LOCATED IN 550521N, 053236W [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 93 IN GEN DEPTH 115MTRS. (HMS FAWN, HN). H3671/72 20.2.73 LEAST DEPTH 93MTRS IN 115 MTRS. SEABED HARD, SMOOTH SAND. LIES 300/120 DEGS. NO SCOUR BUT RIPPLES RUN AWAY NNE/SSW OVER OTHERWISE SMOOTH BOTTOM. (HMS FAWN H525, 1972). INS AS WK 51FMS. BR STD. H3671/72 12.3.73 INS WK 51FMS IN 550521N 053236W, 2199 2724. DELETE NDW PA 0.5M TO SW & NDW 0.5M N.
- NM 658/73. H2265/73 13.6.73 AMEND TO WK 93MTRS. NC 2199. H5982/82 8.11.82 WK SHOWN IN 550530N, 053233W ON KINGFISHER TRAWLING PLOTS A-PLOT 6, [1982].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: RIPPLES RUN NE/SW FROM WK
Position: 55 5.351 N,5 32.663 W
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