This is the information page about the shipwreck Snestad, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 40 N,13 40 W (58.666666666667, -13.666666666667)

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: SNESTAD

Length 114.9 meter, width: 16.5 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 4114 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1926 by kockums mek vaerks. owned at time of loss by skins a/s snestad (a f klaveness & co a/s). oil engine of 439nhp. passage bergen for philadelphia. torpedoed and sunk by u-boat. 2 men lost. (dods).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 1200 meter

Known since: 1940

Details measurements/cartography: H1819/40 12.6.40 H1819/40 12.6.40 SANK IN 584000N, 134000W APPROX.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 40 N,13 40 W

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