This is the information page about the shipwreck Neptunian, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 27 N,17 27 W (58.45, -17.45)

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: NEPTUNIAN

Length 121.9 meter, width: 16.8 meter, draught: 8.2, tonnage 5155 ton
Load: granular or powdery material

Cause: built in 1925 by swan, hunter & wigham richardson. owned at time of loss swan, hunter & wigham richardson (w a souter & co). oil engine of 598nhp. passage santiago for liverpool. torpedoed by u-47 after joining a convoy at sydney, nova scotia. (dods & axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 1030 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: 28.7.87 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 582700N, 172700W. (WW2SL). PLOTS IN APPROX 2000 MTRS. POSN GIVEN AS 582700N, 171700W. (AXIS SUBMARNIE SUCCESSES). STATED TO HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM CONVOY IN POSN 583000N, 161000W. (DODS).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 27 N,17 27 W

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