This is the information page about the shipwreck Terra (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 8.16 N,17 46.69 E (55.125516666667, 17.703083333333)

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: TERRA (PROBABLY)

Length 74.1 meter, width: 11.3 meter, draught: 4.6, tonnage 1533 ton

Cause: torpedoed and sunk by russian submarine lembit.

Year of registration: 1955

Water depth above wreck: 44 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1955, last detected: 2023

Details measurements/cartography: H5323/55 17.9.55 WK 30MTRS, IN 550742N, 174730E APPROX. (POLISH NM 164/55). INS AS WK PA 16FMS. BR STD. H4140/59 15.9.59 NOW SHOWN AS NDW ON POLISH 104. AMEND TO NDW. NE 2368. 17.10.89 WK 30MTRS SHOWN IN 550742N, 174730E ON POLISH 201 [1967 EDN]. BR STD. HH100/351/06 20.11.92 WK OF M TANKER TERRA DIVED ON IN 550822N, 174654E. POSN BY GPS. STANDS UPRIGHT IN GEN DEPTH 44MTRS, WITH LEAST DEPTH ABOUT 34MTRS. BELL RECOVERED WITH ENGRAVED NAME "OELSCHINDLER", VESSEL'S ORIGINAL NAME. LIES ON W'LY HEADING. (J COULON, 14.10.92). PRESUMABLY THIS WK.POSITIONS BELOW THIS POINT ARE IN DEGREES, MINUTES AND DECIMALS HH165/410/02 13.4.99 DELETED. (POLISH NM 13/214/99). BR STD. HH165/410/02 13.4.99 WK PA 34.8MTRS IN 5508.200N, 1746.700E [WGD]. (POLISH NM 11/215/99). BR STD. 30.9.04 SHOWN AS WK 34.8MTRS ON BA 2369 [SEP'04 EDN]. AUTHORITY FOR DELETION OF PA REQUESTED FROM CHART BRANCH. SEP 2011/000025787 15.3.11 SHOWN AS WK 34MTRS IN 5508.160N, 1746.690E [WGD] ON PL2MP500 [EDN 5.2].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 55 8.16 N,17 46.69 E

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