This is the information page about the shipwreck Huntingdon, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 25 N,20 23 W (58.416666666667, -20.383333333333)

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: HUNTINGDON

Length 158.5 meter, width: 19.5 meter, draught: 11.6, tonnage 10946 ton

Cause: built in 1920 by bremer vulkan. owned at time of loss by federal steam navigation co. triple expansion engine & lp turbine for 14 knots. passage the clyde for freetown and brisbane. torpedoed by u-96. no men lost. (dods & axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 2300 meter

Known since: 1941, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 582300N, 212300W. (LLOYDS). 29.7.87 29.7.87 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 582500N, 202300W. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). PLOTS IN OVER 2200MTRS. STATED TO HAVE SUNK APPROX 500 MILES W OF THE HEBRIDES. (DODS).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 25 N,20 23 W

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