This is the information page about the shipwreck Holmelea, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 24 N,17 25 W (54.4, -17.416666666667)

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: HOLMELEA

Length 111.3 meter, width: 15.5 meter, draught: 7.6, tonnage 4223 ton

Cause: built in 1928 by sir john priestman & co. owned at time of loss by cliffside shipping co. triple expansion engine of 375nhp for 10 knots. torpedoed and sunk. 28 men lost. (dods). missed by 1 torpedo from u-99 & sunk by gunfire by u-47. (axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 2300 meter

Known since: 1941, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 542400N, 172500W. 11.8.87 SINKING POSN AS ABOVE. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). SUNK APPROX 280 MILES DUE W OF ERRIS HEAD, COUNTY MAYO. (DODS).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 24 N,17 25 W

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