This is the information page about the shipwreck British gunner, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 61 9 N,12 4 W (61.15, -12.066666666667)

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: BRITISH GUNNER

Length 134.1 meter, width: 17.4 meter, draught: 10.1, tonnage 6894 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: built in 1922 by swan, hunter & wigham richardson. owned at time of loss by british tanker co. turbine engines of 642nhp. passage swansea to aruba. torpedoed & sunk by u-97. (dods & axis submarine successes) 3 of 47 crew lost. (ll ww2)

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 1309 meter

Known since: 1941, last detected: 2004

Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 600900N, 120400W. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED) 24.7.87 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 610900N, 120400W. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES) PLOTS IN OVER 1300MTRS. 10.7.04 MASTER'S POSN: 6109.0N, 1204.0W. POSN ALSO GIVEN AS 6107.0N, 1310.0W, AND PRESUMED SUNK, ABANDONED & LAST SEEN IN 6116.0N, 1220.0W. (LL WW2)
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 61 9 N,12 4 W

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