This is the information page about the shipwreck Oakcrest, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 0 N,17 0 W (53, -17)

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: OAKCREST

Length 122.8 meter, width: 15.8 meter, draught: 8.2, tonnage 5407 ton

Cause: built in 1929 by r duncan & co. owned at time of loss by crest shipping co. triple expansion engine of 512nhp. passage liverpool for new york. torpedoed by u-123. 35 men lost. (dods & axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 3550 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 530000N, 170000W. 12.8.87 SINKING POSN AS ABOVE PLOTS IN OVER 3000MTRS. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 0 N,17 0 W

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