This is the information page about the shipwreck Napier star, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 58 N,23 13 W (58.966666666667, -23.216666666667)

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: NAPIER STAR

Length 156.4 meter, width: 20.4 meter, draught: 11, tonnage 10116 ton

Cause: built in 1927 by lightgows. owned at time of loss by blue star line. turbine enngines for 15 kts. torpedoed & sunk by u-100. (dods & axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 2600 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 H01001/40 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 585800N, 231300W. 27.7.87 27.7.87 SINKING POSN AS ABOVE PLOTS IN OVER 2300 MTRS. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). SINKING POSN 500 MILES SSW OF THE VESTMANN ISLANDS. (DODS).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 58 N,23 13 W

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