This is the information page about the shipwreck Tarapaca, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 45 59.94 N,3 0.08 W (46.2828, -2.9175)

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: TARAPACA

Length 93 meter, width: 13.6 meter, draught: 7.1, tonnage 2506 ton

Cause: vessel, built 1886 by w b thompson, was sunk by a german submarine in the bay of biscay. owned at the time of loss by ant dom bordes & fils. (dods). sunk while on passage from iquique to brest. (ll ww1).

Year of registration: 1919

Water depth above wreck: 120 meter

Known since: 1919, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H2474/19 7.7.19 SHOWN AS WK IN 460000N, 030000W ON FRENCH WK CHART 10104. CHART AS WK [OLD SYMBOL]. BR STD. H2967/22 18.5.22 AMEND SYMBOL TO NDW (1918). BR STD. H5245/51 14.9.51 DELETE. (HYDRO). NC 1104. 22.3.88 SHOWN AS NDW PD IN 460000N, 030000W [EUR] ON FRENCH 7069 [1986 EDN]. POSN ACCURACY 1M [=PA]. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1987, NO.14563003). INS AS NDW PA. NC 2663.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 45 59.94 N,3 0.08 W

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