Wreck: Tarragona (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Tarragona, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 45 36.304 N,1 16.376 W (45.605067, -1.272933)
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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: TARRAGONA
Length 55.2 meter, width: 8.5 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 825 ton
Load: minerals
Cause: vessel, built 1920 by v de kuy & v de rees, sank after an explosion in the engine room near royan in the gironde estuary. 13 of her 20 crew were lost. owned at the time of loss by naviera del nalon, vessel was on passage from gijon to bordeaux. (dods).
Year of registration: 1959
Water depth above wreck: 7 meter
Known since: 1959, last detected: 2018
Details measurements/cartography: H311/60 10.2.60 DW IN 453619N, 011624W. (PARIS NM 59 49 25(T) & NM 59 50 10).
- NM 149/60. H311/60 27.6.63 STATED AS DW (DRIES). (PARIS NM 63 18 14).
- NM 1291/63. 2.12.65 NOW CHARTED AS DW (AWASH). (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NC 2910. H311/60 18.3.75 DW (AWASH) IN 453624N, 011618W. (BREST NM 75 08 18). NFA. 23.1.84 SHOWN AS WK 0.0MTRS, INTER-TIDAL TINT, IN 453625N, 011620W ON FRENCH 6336 [1983 EDN]. LARGE CARGO SHIP 'TARRAGONA' IN 453622N, 011617.6W [EUR]. GEN DEPTH BY E/S 7MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1983). CHART AS DW (AWASH AT LW). NC 2910. 29.10.86 SHOWN AS ST ON FRENCH 7070 & FRENCH 7028 [1985 EDN]. NE 2910. 13.3.90 CONFIRMATION OF ABOVE. POSN ACCURACY 20MTRS. (FRENCH WK RECORDS 1988, NO.14551092). 22.11.02 SHOWN AS ST, DRIES 0.0MTRS, IN 4536.308N, 0116.377W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7425 [INT 1849] [1ST EDN 2002, 1:25,000, LARGEST SCALE]. BR STD. 27.2.06 SHOWN IN 4536.311N, 0116.377W [WGD] ON FRENCH 7425 [INT 1849] [2ND EDN 2005, 1:25,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NE 3058.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: UK NM 3563/18
Position: 45 36.304 N,1 16.376 W
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