This is the information page about the shipwreck Viken (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 55.86 N,1 57.065 W (58.931, -1.9510833333333)

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: VIKEN (POSSIBLY)

Length 79.9 meter, width: 13.1 meter, draught: 5.5, tonnage 1825 ton
Load: chemicals

Cause: built in 1916 by lindholmes mek verkstad. owned at time of loss by j m dannberg. passage freeport, texas for gothenburg. triple expansion engine of 214nhp. torpedoed 20 miles e of the orkneys. (ll ww1, ww1sl & dods).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 86 meter, Height above seabed: 39 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 2008

Details measurements/cartography: H3039/26 APPROX SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 585700N, 015600W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). INS AS NDW (1917) (PA). H1357/62 27.3.62 AMEND TO NDW PA. NC 1942. 6.9.78 AMEND TO WK USC PA 77MTRS. (TONNAGE KNOWN). NC 1942. HH091/137/01 - SEP 2009/000003219 24.12.08 EXAM'D 11.8.08 IN 5855.8599N, 0157.0652W [WGD] USING DGPS. LEAST M/B DEPTH 77.8 IN GEN DEPTH 86.4MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 81MTRS, WIDTH 18MTRS, HT 8.6MTRS. LIES 039/219 DEGS WITH BOWS SSW. INTACT, UPRIGHT. LIMITED DETAIL DUE TO DEPTH. (NETSURVEY, HI 1137). AMEND WK 77MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: INTACT, UPRIGHT, BOWS SSW

Position: 58 55.86 N,1 57.065 W

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