This is the information page about the shipwreck Mohamed ali el-kebir, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 22 N,13 18 W (55.366666666667, -13.3)

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: MOHAMED ALI EL-KEBIR

Length 128.6 meter, width: 17.1 meter, draught: 9.1, tonnage 7527 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,personnel

Cause: built in 1922 by scott's shipbuilding & engineerring co ltd. owned at time of loss by pharaonic mail line. turbine engines of 1469nhp. passage avonmouth for gibraltar. torpedoed by u-38. some 120 lost from complement of 860. (dods & axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 2785 meter

Known since: 1940

Details measurements/cartography: SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 552200N, 131800W. 7.8.87 7.8.87 SINKING POSN AS ABOVE PLOTS IN 2785MTRS. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 55 22 N,13 18 W

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