This is the information page about the shipwreck Germania, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 45.977 N,1 6.113 W (58.770716666667, -1.3808333333333)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English ๐ฌ๐ง, 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: GERMANIA
Length 71 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1064 ton
Cause: built in 1908 by rotterdam droogdok maats. owned at time of loss by h. metcalfe. triple expansion engines of 127nhp. passage gothenburg for hull. torpedoed and sunk by german submarine. (ll ww1, dods).
Year of registration: 1917
Water depth above wreck: 120 meter
Known since: 1917, last detected: 1976
Details measurements/cartography: H3875/26 18.6.26 INS NDW PA (1917) IN 584600N, 010600W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H1357/62 27.3.62 AMEND TO NDW PA. NC 1942. 20.11.75 AMEND TO WK USC PA 109MTRS (TONNAGE KNOWN). NC 291. 5.9.78 AMEND TO WK USC PA 109MTRS. (TONNAGE KNOWN). NOT SHOWN ON BA 291 [PLOTS IN TITLE]. NC 1942. 22.2.80 NDW PA IN 590000N, 011030W. (US P/O DTD 16.10.76). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 58 45.977 N,1 6.113 W