This is the information page about the shipwreck Makedonia, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 34 50 N,33 45 E (34.8977, 33.65735)

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: MAKEDONIA

Length 61 meter, width: 9.4 meter, draught: 5.8, tonnage 859 ton
Load: foodstuffs: solid

Cause: built 1938 by ind masts de noord, amsterdam. onwed at time of loss by e papadimitriou. sank about 7m off cape kiti, cyprus, after being ordered out of larnaca roads by local authority, when she developed a severe list in bad weather. passage larnaca for jounieh, lebanon. (msd & ll).

Year of registration: 1979

Water depth above wreck: 400 meter

Known since: 1979, last detected: 1984

Details measurements/cartography: 5.10.79 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS ABOUT 7M OFF CAPE KITI, CYPRUS. (LL, 1.10.79). POSN APPROX 345000N, 334500E FOR FILING ONLY. PLOTS IN 400MTRS. 27.1.84 ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN DELIBERATELY SUNK FOR THE INSURANCE ON HER 'ROTTEN WORM-EATEN CARGO'. (LL, 27.1.84). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 34 50 N,33 45 E

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