This is the information page about the shipwreck Oropesa, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 56 28 N,12 0 W (56.5, -12)

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: OROPESA

Length 161.5 meter, width: 20.1 meter, draught: 12.5, tonnage 14118 ton

Cause: pacific steam navigation co. built 1920. was serving as an auxiliary transport when torpedoed & sunk by u 96 with over 100 lives lost.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 2500 meter

Known since: 1941

Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 H01001/40 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 562800N, 120000W. 4.8.87 4.8.87 SINKING POSN AS ABOVE PLOTS IN APPROX 2500 MTRS. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). SUNK APPROX 100 MILES NW OF BLOODY FORELAND, N IRELAND. (DODS).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 56 28 N,12 0 W

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