This is the information page about the shipwreck Dicto, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 47 52.967 N,4 59.949 W (48.0231, -4.7596166666667)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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: DICTO
Length 89.9 meter, width: 13.7 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 2363 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore
Cause: built 1904 by short bros. owned at the time of loss by b stolt-nielsen. sunk by a german submarine off ushant. (dods) sunk while on passage aquilas for heysham. (ll ww1).
Year of registration: 1919
Water depth above wreck: 61 meter
Known since: 1919, last detected: 2019
Details measurements/cartography: H1691/19 11.7.19 WK IN 475300N, 050000W. (PARIS NM). CHART AS WK [OLD SYMBOL]. BR STD. H444/445/31 28.1.31 AMEND TO NDW PA. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H939/57 18.10.57 DELETED. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. 29.3.76 SHOWN AS NDW IN 475304N, 050000W ON FRENCH 6030. NE 2351. 23.5.84 NDW PD IN 475302N, 045952W [EUR]. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1984). NC 2351. 22.2.88 SHOWN AS WK PD ON FRENCH 7067 [1987 EDN]. 16.5.88 WK, CLEARANCE UNKNOWN BUT OVER 20MTRS, IN 475302N, 045952W [EUR]. POSN ACCURACY 1M. GEN DEPTH 70MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987, NO.14574093). INS AS NDW PA. 7.8.01 SHOWN AS NDW PD IN 4753.033N, 0459.867W [EUR] ON FRENCH 7147 [1988 EDN]. SHOWN ON BA 2819 [2000 EDN]. SEP 2008/000048875 10.9.08 SHOWN AS WK USC PA 20MTRS ON FRENCH 7076 [1ST EDN 2008, 1:350,000]. AMEND WK USC PD 20MTRS. BR STD. [WGD] POSN: 4752.968N, 0459.952W. SEP 2015/000257549 20.1.16 SHOWN AS NDW IN 4752.967N, 0459.949W [WGD] ON FR370660. (EDN 5.0, DTD 5.11.15). AMEND NDW.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 47 52.967 N,4 59.949 W