This is the information page about the shipwreck Orinon, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 43 55.755 N,1 28.949 W (43.665116666667, -1.6013)

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: ORINON

Length 91.4 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 2571 ton

Cause: built 1895 by ropner & son, with triple expansion engines of 224hp. owned at time of loss by cia. de nav. olazarri. passage barcelona for bilbao. torpedoed and sunk by a german submarine in the bay of biscay. (ll ww1, dods)

Year of registration: 1919

Water depth above wreck: 45 meter

Known since: 1919, last detected: 2009

Details measurements/cartography: H1302/19 4.1.19 H1302/19 4.1.19 WRECK LIES 197DEGS, 11M FROM CONTIS LT, OR IN 435508N, 012331W. (PARIS NM). H1135/21 22.2.21 H1135/21 22.2.21 POSN AMENDED TO 435600N, 034830W [PARIS DATUM] [012816W FROM GREENWICH]. (PARIS NM 14/293/21).

- NM 406/21. H801/61 28.2.61 H801/61 28.2.61 DELETED. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NE 2665. 1.5.74 1.5.74 NDW SHOWN IN 435536N, 012830W ON FRENCH 6571 [RECEIVED 27.3.74]. NCA. 16.10.78 16.10.78 NDW SHOWN IN 435551N, 012848W [EUR] ON FRENCH 6786 [1978 EDN]. BR STD.. 17.8.00 17.8.00 NDW PA SHOWN ON FRENCH 6991[2ND EDN 2000, 1:368,000]. NCA, AWAIT LARGER SCALE FRENCH CHART. 17.12.08 17.12.08 SHOWN AS WK USC 20MTRS ON FRENCH 7211 [4TH EDN 2008, 1:1,000,000]. NCA. 11.8.09 SEP 2009/000085522 11.8.09 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 20MTRS IN 4355.755N, 0128.949W [WGD] ON FRENCH 6786 [2ND EDN 2009, 1:130,000]. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 43 55.755 N,1 28.949 W

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