This is the information page about the shipwreck Jonkoping i (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 1.513 N,1 16.173 W (54.93705, -1.1630333333333)
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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: JONKOPING I (POSSIBLY)
Length 78.3 meter, width: 10.7 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 1519 ton
Load: natural fibres and materials in general: unprocessed and products,wood: unprocessed and products,ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined
Cause: built in 1881. one boiler triple expansion engine, single shaft. passage gothenburg for hull. torpedoed by ub-104. (sibi & der krieg zur see).
Year of registration: 1971
Water depth above wreck: 49 meter, Height above seabed: 257 cm
Known since: 1971, last detected: 2019
Details measurements/cartography: H2433/71 21.4.71 POSSIBLE WK LOCATED IN 550130N, 011600W [OGB] DURING AREA SONAR SEARCH. TO BE EXAMINED 1971. (ISS ROS DTD 31.12.70). NCA. HH090/796/01 6.1.98 EXAM'D 4.7.98 IN 550130.7N, 011610.8W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 43.5 IN GEN DEPTH 49MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 49.5MTRS. DCS3 HT 5.5MTRS. LENGTH 78MTRS, WIDTH 25MTRS. LIES 075/255 DEGS. LYING ON ITS SIDE. GENERALLY GOOD CONDITION BUT SOME DAMAGE TO BOW (AT E END) WITH DEBRIS IN VICINITY. (GARDLINE, HI 796). PROBABLY JONKOPING 1, SEE [4260]. INS AS WK 43MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2019/000043627 28.2.19 EXAM’D 28.2.19 IN 5501.513N, 0116.173W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 43.61MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 49MTRS. LENGTH 61.8MTRS, WIDTH 10.2MTRS, HT 5.5MTRS, ORIENTATION 257/077DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 1.5MTRS, WIDTH 62.7MTRS, 1.0MTRS DEEP TOWARD 257DEGS. LARGELY INTACT, LYING ON SIDE, BOW TOWARDS E. (MERITAITO, HI 1513). AMEND NDW 43MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: LARGELY INTACT, LYING ON SIDE, BOW TOWARDS E
Position: 55 1.513 N,1 16.173 W