This is the information page about the shipwreck Maipu, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 54.758 N,7 52.274 E (53.672066666667, 8.0892166666667)

 

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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.

 

1. Adele ohlrogge
2. Angela
3. Bewerwyk
4. Birgit
5. Bjorko
6. Boor
7. Breda
8. Cholmogory (or kholmogory)
9. Cribo
10. Dw 07
11. Elbe (possibly)
12. Ety danielson
13. Franciska
14. Friedel
15. Gerhardus
16. German empire
17. Grete hauschildt
18. Habvorg
19. Harborough
20. Heinrich gunther
21. Johann schulte
22. Johanna
23. Kapa trader
24. Karla sorensen
25. Kellerwald
26. Kirkwood
27. Kjobenhavn
28. Konigsberg-preussen
29. Lenas
30. Limsund (fore-part)
31. Limsund (stern part)
32. Lune ii
33. M 383
34. Maipu
35. Marianne wear
36. Marko
37. Memelland
38. Merkur
39. Merlin
40. Minsener sand ltv (possibly)
41. Miranda
42. Narvik
43. Neubau
44. Nordenham
45. Ocean king
46. Orient
47. Ottar harmstorf ix
48. Peter deuss
49. Piteaelf
50. Rosafred
51. Saltborn
52. Santos
53. Sperber
54. St christoph
55. Stieg gorthor
56. Tannhauser
57. Tjalk
58. Tjalk christen
59. Trondheim
60. U 51 (probably)
61. Vp-boat 1101
62. Waldo
63. Widar (or wides)
64. Wilhelm 3
65. Yorck

 

Name: MAIPU

Length 149.4 meter, width: 19.5 meter, draught: 10.7, tonnage 11515 ton

Cause: vessel, built 1951 by n.v. konink. maats "de schelde", with oil engines. sank following collision with mv general m.l. hearsey in fog, while on passage buenos aires for hamburg. owned at time of loss by cia. arg. de nav. dodero. (dods)

Year of registration: 1951

Water depth above wreck: 17 meter

Known since: 1951, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: H6779/51 20.11.51 DANGEROUS WK IN 535438N, 075206E, WITH BUOYS E & W. (ADMIRALTY SIGNAL DTD 05.11.1951)

- NM 2154/51. H6779/51 22.1.54 LEAST DEPTH NOW 5.5MTRS [3FMS]. (HAMBURG NM 4151/53)

- NM 172/53. H6779/51 23.12.55 NOW SWEPT CLEAR AT 7.5MTRS [4FMS]. (HAMBURG NM 3931/55)

- NM 3084/55. H4507/61 21.9.64 NOW CLEAR AT 5.5MTRS [3FMS]. (HAMBURG NM'S 2953 & 4115/64)

- NM 1669/64. H6779/51 22.1.65 SWEPT CLEAR AT 17.5MTRS & BUOYS REMOVED. (HAMBURG NM 5124/64).

- NM 80/65. H3150/69 5.8.81 CLEAR AT 17.5MTRS IN 535448N, 075218E. (HAMBURG NM 2469/81). 1.9.87 SHOWN AS WK SW 17.5MTRS ON GERMAN 87D [REPRINT 1986]. NC 3761. H3164/87 11.10.88 POSN NOW 535448N, 075221E. (HAMBURG NM (21)2/38/88). NCA. 9.3.94 WK SW 17.5MTRS SHOWN IN 535446N, 075221E ON GERMAN 2D [18TH EDN 1993]. BR STD. 13.8.15 SHOWN AS DISTRIBUTED REMAINS OF WRECK 15.6MTRS IN 5354.758N, 0752.274E [WGD] ON DE 421030. (EDN 25.3, DTD 7.8.15). AMEND FOUL 15.6MTRS IN REVISED POSN. SEP 2016/000181723 8.11.16 SHOWN AS SW 17.1MTRS IN 5354.758N, 0752.274E [WGD] ON GERMAN 87 (ED 7, COR TO 15.4.16). AMEND TO SW 17.1MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: DISTRIBUTED REMAINS OF WRECK

Position: 53 54.758 N,7 52.274 E

 

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