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S/S Denia

Location: Kattegatt

Depth: 15-20 m

Length x Width: 32×7 m

Weight: 145 dwt

Lost: 1967

Cause: Stranding

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Cargoship

Cargo: Paper

Launched: 1923

The ship was on its way from Halden to Kiel with a cargo of paper when it ran aground at Lekskär lighthouse outside Marstrand due to rough seas.

It is standing upright on the clay bottom. The hull is completely intact. The wheelhouse, which was likely made of wood, is completely gone and the spaces under the wheelhouse are almost entirely filled with silt. The cargo of rolls of paper in the open cargo hold is partially decayed. The rolls are approximately one meter wide and one meter in diameter.

The visibility in the water at the wreck site has, during the two times we have been there, been no more than 3-4 meters, which is significantly worse than what it usually is further out in the Gothenburg archipelago.