This is the information page about the shipwreck Klearchos, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 40 53.728 N,9 43.59 E (40.895466666667, 9.7265)

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: KLEARCHOS

Length 74.1 meter, width: 11 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1354 ton
Load: containers,chemicals,gas

Cause: built in 1962 by ateliers duchense & bossiere, le havre. owned at time of loss by math marcantonakis & sons ltd. passage marseilles for piraeus. abandoned by crew. sank six days after catching fire off travolara island. the vessel contains dangerous chemicals. (msd & ll).

Year of registration: 1979

Water depth above wreck: 70 meter

Known since: 1979, last detected: 2023

Details measurements/cartography: H4644/74 24.9.79 SALVAGE WORK, PRESUMABLY OF CARGO, BEING CARRIED OUT IN 405357N, 094344E USING SMALL SUBMERSIBLE & PONTOONS. (LL 237). H4644/74 7.3.80 REPD THAT DRUMS (CONTAINING DANGEROUS CHEMICALS) ARE TO BE SALVED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AS THEY ARE IN DANGER OF SPILLING. (LL 239). H3091/79 28.8.80 NDW IN 405337N, 094345E. (GENOA NM 13.2/80). NE 163. H3091/79 19.12.80 SUB SEA OIL SERVICES TO RECOVER DANGEROUS CHEMICALS, SOME OF WHICH HAVE DISSOLVED. SARDINIAN AUTHORITIES HAVE PROHIBITED FISHING IN THE AREA. (LL 242). H2343/81 20.2.81 SALVAGE BEGAN 20.1.81 BY VESSEL 'CAPALONGA' & SUB PC-82 TO RECOVER CARGO. RADIUS OF 1100MTRS PROHIBITED FOR NAVIGATION, ANCHORING & FISHING FOR 6 MONTHS. (GENOA NM 2.48/81). - TNM 585/80 ISSUED. 4.6.86 [MOD] POSN: 405337N, 094342E. NC 1211. 13.2.95 NDW SHOWN IN 405333N, 094348E ON ITALIAN 43 [1994 EDN]. BR STD. 12.4.05 NDW SHOWN IN 4053.61N, 0943.71E [MOD] ON ITALIAN 322 [RISTAMPA OCT'01]. NE 1211. [WGD] POSN: 4053.651N, 0943.699E.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 40 53.728 N,9 43.59 E

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