This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms racoon, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 20 N,9 30 W (54.598166666667, -9.389)

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: HMS RACOON

Length 81.1 meter, width: 8.5 meter, draught: 2.4, tonnage 920 ton

Cause: built in 1910 by cammell laird & co ltd, birkenhead. steam turbine engines of 12,500 hp, twin shaft. wrecked in a snowstorm. no surviviors, but out of complement of 100 nine ratings had been left behind at last port of call. (dods).

Water depth above wreck: 43 meter

Known since: 1918

Details measurements/cartography: SINKING POSN GIVEN AS INSTRAHULL SOUND, NEAR GARRIVES ROCKS, CO DONEGAL. (SII). POSN 542000N, 093000W. FOR FILING ONLY.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 20 N,9 30 W

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