This is the information page about the shipwreck Keelung, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 0 N,7 22 W (48.288133333333, -7.1788833333333)

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: KEELUNG

Length 136.9 meter, width: 17.4 meter, draught: 9.4, tonnage 6672 ton

Cause: built in 1914 by earle's co. owned at time of loss by ellerman & bucknall ss co. triple expansion engines of 641nhp for 14 knots. torpedoed and sunk. 6 killed. (dods).

Year of registration: 1918

Water depth above wreck: 162 meter

Known since: 1918, last detected: 2001

Details measurements/cartography: 2.7.18 M011760 2.7.18 TORPEDOED IN 474000N, 373000W AND AFTER BEING TOWED SOME DISTANCE SANK IN 474000N, 073000W WITH THE LOSS OF SIX MEN. (RA FALMOUTH REPORT). 22.7.18 M34897 22.7.18 SANK IN 480000N, 072200W. (BOT W.R 9/1956) SANK 110M W 1/4 S FROM USHANT. (B.M.V.S). 27.11.79 27.11.79 SHOWN AS NDW ON FR 4735. NOT IN FR WK RECORDS. H4226/85 10.1.89 H4226/85 10.1.89 FR WK RECORD NO.14587050 REFERS. (EPSHOM 10.6.88). 15.2.01 15.2.01 SHOWN AS NDW PA IN 4800.000N, 0722.000W [EUR] ON FR 6989 [2ND EDN 1992]. CHART AS NDW. NE 1104. [STS FOR PA].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 48 0 N,7 22 W

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