This is the information page about the shipwreck Laconia, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 4 N,13 41 W (51.942783333333, -13.948333333333)

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: LACONIA

Length 182.9 meter, width: 21.6 meter, draught: 12.2, tonnage 18099 ton
Load: armament,non-ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,metal: concentrate and products

Cause: built in 1912 by swan, hunter & wigham richardson, newcastle-upon-tyne. onwed at time of loss by the cunard ss co ltd. six boilers, twin quadruple expansion engines of 2170nhp, twin shaft. passage new york for liverpool. torpedoed and sunk by u-50. cargo included 852 silver ingots, 132 boxes of fine silver, 4,545,738 lbs of empty brass shell cases, 3000 tons of steel, 2843 bales of cotton and 5400 sacks of mail. 6 crew and six passengers lost. (sii).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 431 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 1986

Details measurements/cartography: SINKING POSN APPROX. 160 MILES NW BY W FROM FASTNET. (DODS & WW1SL). PLOTS IN 520000N, 134000W, APPROX. DEAD RECKONING POSN FOR LOSS 520000N, 134100W. (MASTER). H1279/86 14.7.86 POSN OF 515600N, 140000N (SUPPLIED FROM OTHER SOURCES). AREA HAS BEEN CLOSELY EXAM'D USING E/S. NOTHING FOUND. HOWEVER FISHERMAN REPORTS FASTENER IN 520400N, 134100W IN GEN DEPTH 431MTRS. (SWIRE PACIFIC OFFSHORE, TELEX 1.7.86). 18.7.86 LACONIA FOUND. IDENTIFIED BY RECOVERED COPPER-BOTTOMED BAKING POT BEARING NAME. POSN NOT YET AVAILABLE. (J THOROGOOD, SWIRE PACIFIC OFFSHORE, TELECON 18.7.86).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 4 N,13 41 W

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