This is the information page about the shipwreck Gartavon, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 47 4 N,11 32 W (46.85, -11.6)

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: GARTAVON

Length 80.5 meter, width: 12.5 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1777 ton

Cause: built in 1921 by h & c grayson. owned at time of loss by gart line. triple expansion engine of 252nhp. passage cette for the clyde. sunk by gunfire from u-47. (axis submarine successes). torpedoed. (dods).

Year of registration: 1939

Water depth above wreck: 4700 meter

Known since: 1939, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: H034/39 7.9.39 H034/39 7.9.39 SINKING POSN 470400N, 113200W. (TELEGRAM). 17.7.87 17.7.87 SINKING POSN AS ABOVE PLOTS IN DEPTHS OVER 4600MTRS. (AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES & WW2SL).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 47 4 N,11 32 W

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