This is the information page about the shipwreck Orania (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 62 16 N,0 7.45 E (62.026083333333, -6.7493833333333)

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: ORANIA (POSSIBLY)

Length 79.9 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1854 ton
Load: foodstuffs: solid

Cause: vessel built in 1919 by lindholmens vaw, with triple expansion engines. torpedoed and sunk by german submarine, u-50. owned at time of loss by rederi-a/b fredrika. 14 crew lost. (dods & axis submarine successes). passage from buenos aires for malmo. cargo maize and bran. crew of 24. 14 lost (ll ww2).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 780 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1998

Details measurements/cartography: SUNK ABOUT 60 MILES NE OF THE SHETLANDS. (DODS) PLOTS IN 614000N, 001400E. NCA, POSN TOO VAGUE TO CHART. HH335/430/02 15.9.98 HH335/430/02 15.9.98 WK LOCATED IN 621600N, 000727E [WGD] USING TOBI [TOWED OCEAN BOTTOM INSTRUMENT]. LENGTH 100MTRS, WIDTH 16MTRS. HEIGHT 10MTRS. GEN DEPTH 780MTRS. (DR T LE BAS, SOUTHAMPTON OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE, LTR DTD 9.98). NCA, TOO DEEP TO CHART.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 62 16 N,0 7.45 E

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