This is the information page about the shipwreck Padua, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 43 16.938 N,4 29.933 E (43.2823, 4.4988833333333)

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: PADUA

Length 53 meter, width: 9.1 meter, tonnage 665 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: passage lisbon for marsailles. possibly sunk by a mine whilst carrying 11,000 p.o.w. parcels for geneva. of 21 crew, six were lost. (ww2sl, ll ww2).

Year of registration: 1943

Water depth above wreck: 48 meter

Known since: 1943, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: 14.4.77 NDW SHOWN IN 431700N, 043000E ON FRENCH 2474 [1977 EDN]. NE 1705. 15.9.81 NDW PD SHOWN IN 431654N, 043000E IN FRENCH 1303 [1981 EDN]. 2.6.86 USC 28MTRS, SHOWN IN 431703N, 043003E ON FRENCH 6693 [1985 EDN]. [FRENCH WK RECORD NO. 18034053]. R/P. HH354/790/02 1.5.96 USC 28MTRS SHOWN IN 431700N, 043000E ON FRENCH 7507 [1996 EDN]. [FRENCH WK RECORD NO.18034053 GIVES NAME 'PADUA']. POSN ACCURACY BETWEEN 500MTRS TO 1M IN GEN DEPTH 48MTRS]. (FRENCH HO FAX DTD 30.4.96).

- NM 1830/96 [WGD] POSN: 4316.938N, 0429.933E.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 43 16.938 N,4 29.933 E

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