This is the information page about the shipwreck Rfa bacchus, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 49 52.957 N,2 7.38 W (50.167166666667, -11.000666666667)

 

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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.

 

1. Agrion
2. Antonis g lemos (probably)
3. Armas
4. Baden
5. Badger (probably)
6. Beatrice maud
7. Belle colombe
8. Bissen
9. Bohera
10. Bonafide
11. Bremenry
12. British influence
13. Bronte (ex-war coney)
14. Buchanness
15. Cab
16. Calvados
17. Cap horn des mers
18. Carrouest one (possibly)
19. Carrouest one (possibly)
20. Cathrine
21. Centurion
22. Cid
23. Citta de bari
24. Constantia s (after part)(possibly)
25. Constantia s (after part)(possibly)
26. Constantia s (fwd part)
27. Dallas city (possibly)
28. Deucalion
29. Discovery
30. Edirne
31. Eika
32. Eleni stathatou
33. Emily eveson
34. Empress
35. Etoile des ondes
36. Felix de abasolo
37. Finnborg
38. G-bagh
39. Gairsoppa
40. Gallia
41. Gaspard de la nuit
42. Ginette
43. Girnigoe
44. Guilding star
45. Hms courageous
46. Hms dark gladiator
47. Hms dragon
48. Hms gossamer
49. Hms viper
50. Ice prince
51. Ievoli sun
52. Ioannis fafalios
53. Jeanne
54. Johan (possibly)
55. Josef joham (bow section) (probably)
56. Josef joham (stern half) (probably)
57. Karen folmer
58. Komet
59. Le nord
60. Lenda
61. Leticia
62. Linn o dee (or linn o dec)
63. Liverpool
64. Mahenge (possibly)
65. Makeshift (possibly)
66. Malka
67. Marie mashman
68. Meknes
69. Mera 1
70. Mersey
71. Mimosa
72. Motorola
73. Mount myrto
74. Nyarlathotep
75. Oiekast (probably)
76. Pan
77. Pembroke
78. Pendragon b
79. Peras
80. Perra (possibly)
81. Phoenix c1/131
82. Point law
83. Portsea
84. Progress
85. Pruthree
86. Psi
87. Rabbi
88. Rap
89. Rfa bacchus
90. Rhenania
91. Rombo
92. Saint antoine
93. Solway prince (possibly)
94. Spolanda
95. Stade (after part)
96. Stade (possibly)
97. Stanley force
98. Stella (probably)
99. Terra
100. Theodoros t
101. Tipasa
102. Tracys dawn
103. Tyne
104. U 672 (possibly)
105. Uffe
106. Ville de malaga
107. Xania

 

Name: RFA BACCHUS

Length 89.9 meter, width: 13.4 meter, tonnage 4000 ton

Cause: used as bombing target and later sunk by gunfire from hms dunedin.

Year of registration: 1938

Water depth above wreck: 95 meter

Known since: 1938, last detected: 1980

Details measurements/cartography: H3655/37 6.12.38 SUNK IN 495256N, 020718W OR 018DEGS, 10.4 MILES FROM ALDERNEY LT. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). 5.2.80 SHOWN AS NDW PA ON FR 878 [DEC 79 EDN]. 4.3.80 INS AS USC PA 73MTRS IN 495256N, 020718W. BR STD. 29.9.88 POSN AMENDED TO 495301N, 020718W [EUR]. NC 2669. 26.2.90 LOOKED FOR ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. NOT FOUND. (D WOODHAMS, TELECON). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 49 52.957 N,2 7.38 W

 

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