This is the information page about the shipwreck Geierfels, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 43 28.85 N,10 3 E (43.267600, 10.265300)

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: GEIERFELS

Length 153.3 meter, width: 18.9 meter, draught: 8.2, tonnage 7605 ton

Cause: built 1931 by deutsche schiffs-u. maschinbau. owned at time of loss by deutsche dampfs. ges. hansa. sunk by mine or torpedo near leghorn. (dods).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 50 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: H464/51 25.1.51 NDW IN 432840N, 100300E. (ITALIAN NM 51/3/50). NE 3900. 19.3.91 COVERED BY NOTE ON NC 1998. [WGD] POSN: 4328.705N, 1002.981E.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 43 28.85 N,10 3 E

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