Wreck: Solferino (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Solferino, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 38.983 N,5 0.082 W (48.649717, -5.001367)
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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.
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Shipwreck details
Name: SOLFERINO
Length 65.8 meter, width: 9.7 meter, draught: 6.5, tonnage 1155 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,wine
Cause: vessel, built 1900 by fevigs jernskibs, owned by otto thoresen at the time of loss. torpedoed by german submarine off ushant. (dods). sunk whilst on passage lisbon for norway. (ll ww1).
Year of registration: 1978
Water depth above wreck: 103 meter
Known since: 1978, last detected: 2021
Details measurements/cartography: H1690 11.9.19 WK REPD. (PARIS NM). INS AS WK [OLD SYMBOL]. BR STD. H1291/28 [NO DATE] AMEND SYMBOL TO NDW PA (1919). BR STD. 23.6.76 NOT SHOWN ON FRENCH 6031 [1975 EDN]. 24.8.77 'SOLFERINO' IN APPROX 483900N, 050000.6W [EUR], MEAN DEPTH 108MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS DTD 18.10.76). 9.9.77 SHOWN AS NDW ON FRENCH 6680 [INT 1708]. 23.1.78 SHOWN AS NDW IN 483900N, 050000.6W [EUR] ON FRENCH 6680. LISTED IN FRENCH WK RECORDS. INS AS NDW PA IN 483900N, 050000W. BR STD. 13.11.87 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 85MTRS ON FRENCH 6680 [1986 EDN]. 25.2.88 SHOWN AS WK USC PD 85MTRS IN 483900N, 050000W [EUR] ON FRENCH 7067 [1987 EDN]. ALSO LISTED IN FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987 NO.14585026. NC 2644. 2.3.09 SHOWN IN 4838.940N, 0500.090W [WGD] ON FRENCH 6680 [3RD EDN 2003, CORRECT TO NM 42 29 08, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NC 2647. SEP 2009000084718 25.11.09 SHOWN IN 4838.983N, 0500.082W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7066 [INT 1800] [3RD EDN 2006 CORRECT TO 25-37-09, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE]. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Position: 48 38.983 N,5 0.082 W
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