This is the information page about the shipwreck Pontoporos (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 47 32.773 N,3 14.488 W (47.546217, -3.241467)

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: PONTOPOROS (PROBABLY)

Length 117.3 meter, width: 15.8 meter, draught: 6.7, tonnage 4049 ton
Load: coal

Cause: vessel, built 1913 by w doxford & sons, was torpedoed and sunk by a german submarine in the bay of biscay. owned at the time of loss by the national steam navigation co of greece. (dods). sunk while on passage from the tyne to la spezia. (ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 27 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: H7343/17 SUNK IN 473236N, 031518W APPROX. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). - FNM 519/17. HH353/351/01 4.4.90 WK, LEAST DEPTH 23.5MTRS, IN 473250N, 031424.5W. (BREST NM 90 09 26). WK LOCATED IN 473250N, 031424.5W USING TRIDENT III. POSN ACCURACY 20MTRS. LEAST DEPTH 23.8MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 27MTRS BY E/S. (FR WK RECORDS 1990, NO.14573293). PROBABLY WK OF 'PONTOPOROS' CHART AS WK 23.5MTRS IN 473250N, 031424.5W. BR STD. HH353/351/02 28.4.92 DATA RE-ASSESSED. CHART AS WK 23.5MTRS IN 473250N, 031424.5W.

- NM 1370/92.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 47 32.773 N,3 14.488 W

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