This is the information page about the shipwreck Embassage, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 0 N,13 0 W (54, -13)

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: EMBASSAGE

Length 124.7 meter, width: 17.4 meter, draught: 7.3, tonnage 4954 ton
Load: vehicles,aircraft,general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1935 by j l thompson & sons. owned at time of loss by hall bros ss co. triple expansion engine of 1700ihp for 10 knots. passage hull for bathurst & pepel. torpedoed by u 557. 39 men lost. (lloyds ww2 sea losses).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 750 meter

Known since: 1941

Details measurements/cartography: 12.3.42 SUNK IN 540000N, 130000W APPROX. (LL WW2 LOSSES). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 0 N,13 0 W

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