This is the information page about the shipwreck Lakme, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 46 27.273 N,2 40.08 W (46.2828, -2.9175)

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: LAKME

Length 100.6 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 3117 ton
Load: stone

Cause: vessel, built 1896 by a stephen & sons, struck a mine & sank in the bay of biscay. owned at the time of loss by cie des bateaux a vap du nord. (dods). sunk while on passage from la rochelle to dunkirk. (ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1919

Water depth above wreck: 76 meter

Known since: 1919, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: 7.7.19 SHOWN AS WK IN 462700N, 024030W ON FRENCH WK CHART 10104. BR STD. H2966/22 18.5.22 AMEND TO DW (1918). (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). BR STD. H1009/26 6.5.26 AMEND TO NDW. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 2648. H5350/53 25.4.69 NDW PA IN 462700N, 024000W. (PARIS NM 54 08 15). 12.12.84 SHOWN AS NDW IN 462720N, 024000W ON FRENCH 6990 [1984 EDN]. 28.3.88 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 60MTRS IN 462720N, 024000W ON FRENCH 7069 [1986 EDN]. POSN ACCURACY 1M [=PA]. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987, NO.14562035). CHART AS WK USC PA 60MTRS IN 462720N, 024000W. NC 2663.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 46 27.273 N,2 40.08 W

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