This is the information page about the shipwreck Skagerak, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 57 31.67 N,9 39.91 E (57.577, 9.4098833333333)

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: SKAGERAK

Length 87.2 meter, width: 16.8 meter, draught: 4, tonnage 2750 ton
Load: railway: stock and construction materials,vehicles

Cause: built in 1965 by aaloborg vaerft a/d, aalborg. owned at time of loss by kristiansands dampskipsselskap. passage kristiansand, norway, for hirtshals, denmark. carrying 98 passengers, 47 crew, 30 cars and 7 railway carriages. heavy seas stove in the side car ports, the engine stopped and the vessel took on a heavy list. abandoned with only one man lost. capsized and sank. abandoned as ctl. (msd).

Year of registration: 1966

Water depth above wreck: 25 meter

Known since: 1966, last detected: 2019

Details measurements/cartography: H2216/66 6.10.66 INS DW IN 573100N, 094030E WITH G CON BUOY FL.G CLOSE W. (DANISH NM 1349/66).

- NM 1890/66. H2216/66 11.5.67 AMEND POSN TO 573142N, 094000E. (DANISH NM 667/67). BR STD. H2216/66 10.11.67 AMEND TO WK 18.0MTRS & DELETE LT BUOY. (DANISH NM 1562/67).

- NM 2077/67. 19.10.76 SHOWN AS WK 18.0MTRS ON GER 63 [1971]. 28.7.88 WK 18.0 MTRS SHOWN ON DANISH 92 [1980]. NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 57 31.67 N,9 39.91 E

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