This is the information page about the shipwreck Gafsa (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 29.43 N,8 19.44 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.

 

1. Ardent ii
2. Bell rose
3. Caliph
4. Carrabin (possibly)
5. Carrabin (possibly)
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 morocoala
14. Irish plane
15. Juliet (possibly)
16. Kilgerran castle
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. Lilian h
25. Lusitania
26. Santo (sento or sente)
27. Star immaculate
28. Tallygross (possibly)
29. U 58 (probably)
30. U 772
31. U58 (possibly)
32. Uc 42
33. Westwick

 

Name: GAFSA (POSSIBLY)

Length 106.7 meter, width: 15.2 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 3974 ton
Load: flammable liquids and gases,oil

Cause: ex- dominion. built in 1902. owned at time of loss by bowring & co. lt. an admiralty oiler. four boilers, 3 cylinder triple expansion engine, single shaft. 1 x 12 pdr stern gun. passage port arthur, texas for queenstown for orders. torpedoed by german submarine u 57. 7 of 39 crew lost. (llww1, ww1sl, sii).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 86 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2005

Details measurements/cartography: SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 10M SE HALF S FROM KINSALE HEAD. (WW1SL). SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 8M S BY E OF OLD KINSALE HEAD. (LL WW2). H0109/45 POSN 512924N, 081924W. GAVE OFF OIL. (W APP LIST). AUBD W1123/106 WRECK PA. 5.2.71 INS AS NDW PA IN 512924N, 081924W [OSI]. NE 1824B. 2.6.05 EUT POSN: 5129.430N, 0819.440W. NE 1765.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 29.43 N,8 19.44 W

 

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