This is the information page about the shipwreck Cree, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 39 N,18 50 W (54.65, -18.833333333333)

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: CREE

Length 113.4 meter, width: 16.5 meter, draught: 7.6, tonnage 4791 ton

Cause: built in 1920 by commonwealth naval dockyard. owned at time of loss by muir young. triple expansion engine of 311nhp. torpedoed by u-123. all 43 men lost. (dods & axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 1223 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 543900N, 185000W. 11.8.87 SINKING POSN AS ABOVE PLOTS IN 1223 MTRS. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). SUNK APPROX 400 MILES W OF IRELAND. (DODS).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 39 N,18 50 W

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