This is the information page about the shipwreck Santos, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 59 16.975 N,0 42.116 W (59.366216666667, -0.8686)

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: SANTOS

Length 110 meter, width: 15.6 meter, draught: 6.9, tonnage 3840 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1925. owned at time of loss by rederi-a/b nordstjernan. oil engines of 564 nhp. torpedoed and sunk by u-63. passage buenos aires for kirkwall and gothenburg. 12 surviviors from crew of 50. (llww2, dods & axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 118 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1978

Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 POSN 591700N, 004200W. (NID). 11.5.72 INS AS NDW. BR STD. 27.9.78 AMENDED TO WK USC PA 104MTRS. (TONNAGE KNOWN). NC 1942.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 59 16.975 N,0 42.116 W

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