Wreck: Pizarro (Motor vessel)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Pizarro, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 30 N,19 40 W (49.5, -19.666666666667)
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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.
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Shipwreck details
Name: PIZARRO
Length 73.5 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1367 ton
Cause: built in 1923 by w beardmore & co. owned at time of loss by macandrews & co. oil engine of 347nhp for 12ktrs. passage for gibraltar with an outward bound convoy. torpedoed and sunk by a german submarine. (dods & ww2 br msl).
Year of registration: 1941
Water depth above wreck: 3900 meter
Known since: 1941
Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 6.3.41 H01001/40 6.3.41 VESSEL SANK IN 493000N, 194000W APPROX. NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 49 30 N,19 40 W
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