This is the information page about the shipwreck El zorro, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 43.23 N,8 20.24 W (51.768116666667, -8.2951166666667)

 

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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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3. Carrabin (possibly)
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5. Carrigrenan outfall
6. Chiapas (probably)
7. City of chicago
8. Earl of lathom
9. East wales
10. El zorro
11. Gafsa (possibly)
12. Ghislaine renee
13. Hms bredah (possibly)
14. Hms morocoala
15. Irish plane
16. Joseph mitchell
17. Killarney
18. Kinsale western bridge
19. Kinsale western bridge
20. Kinsale western bridge
21. Kinsale western bridge
22. Kinsale western bridge
23. Kinsale western bridge
24. Lusitania
25. Santo (sento or sente)
26. Star immaculate
27. Tallygross (possibly)
28. U 58 (probably)
29. U58 (possibly)
30. Uc 42
31. Westwick

 

Name: EL ZORRO

Length 128 meter, width: 16.6 meter, draught: 9.8, tonnage 5989 ton
Load: oil

Cause: built 1914 by swan, hunter & wigham richardson, newcastle upon tyne. owned at time of loss by lobitos oilfields ltd. three boilers, triple expansion engine of 513 nhp, single shaft. passage port arthur for dartmouth. torpedoed by u-24. 2 of 35 crew lost. (sii). 28.12.1915 torpedoed near old head of kinsale on 28.12.1915. taken in tow next day but tow parted and vessel was washed ashore at man o' war cove, where she later broke in two. (shipwrecks of the irish coast vol.1 1994 edn).

Year of registration: 1915

Water depth above wreck: 2 meter

Known since: 1915, last detected: 1994

Details measurements/cartography: [NO DATE] SUNK 10M S OF OLD HEAD OF KINSALE. (WW1SL). 13.3.78 INS AS WK USC PA 65MTRS IN 5126.333N, 0831.917W. NC 2049. 19.9.94 WAS TAKEN IN TOW, BUT TOW PARTED ON 29.12.1915. VESSEL WASHED ASHORE IN MAN O' WAR COVE [5143.2N, 0820.2W] AND SHORTLY AFTERWARDS BROKE IN TWO. COPPER AND BRASS RECOVERED AND LATER THE STEEL. (SHIPWRECKS OF THE IRISH COAST, 1994 EDN). DELETE WK USC PA 65MTRS IN 5126.333N, 0831.917W, AND AMEND TO LIVE UNCHARTED RECORD POSN 5143.2N, 0820.2W. NCA. NE 1765.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 43.23 N,8 20.24 W

 

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