This is the information page about the shipwreck Gafsa, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 32.387 N,8 57.507 W (51.300333333333, -9.084)

 

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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. Akassa
2. Alliance ii
3. Asian
4. Carol anne
5. Cliftonian
6. Counsellor
7. Dinah b
8. Faulconnler
9. Gafsa
10. Ghazee
11. Hms alyssum (probably)
12. Hms mignonette
13. Iceland
14. Iwate
15. Joan patricia
16. Kayside
17. Kowloon bridge
18. Ludgate
19. Miami (probably)
20. Norwegian
21. Otronto
22. Pegu
23. Rona or arona
24. Rosses morn
25. Spectator (probably)
26. Spes nova
27. Tit bonhomme
28. U 260

 

Name: GAFSA

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, triple exapansion engine, single shaft. 1 x 12 pdr stern gun. passage port arthur, texas for queenstown for orders. torpedoed by u-57. 7 men lost. (llww1, ww1sl, sii).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 5 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 1972

Details measurements/cartography: 3.3.71 MAY BE UNKNOWN IN 512924N, 081924W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). 3.3.71 TORPEDOED 10 MILES SE HALF S OF KINSALE HEAD. (WW1SL). 25.2.72 AFTER BEING TORPEDOED WAS TURNED TOWARDS COAST AND STRUCK IN 513222N, 085728W [OSI] AT HW JUST N OF GALLERY HD ON W SIDE JUST BELOW THE RUINS OF CASTLE STRIPPED BY LOCAL SALVAGE COMPANY. ONLY PART OF KEEL AND STERN REMAINS. (UNDERMARINE OPERATIONS LTD). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 32.387 N,8 57.507 W

 

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