This is the information page about the shipwreck Creekirk, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 57 30 N,11 10 W (57.466666666667, -11.166666666667)

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: CREEKIRK

Length 107.6 meter, width: 15.5 meter, draught: 7.3, tonnage 3917 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore

Cause: built 1920, was torpedoed & sunk by german submarine u 101 whilst en-route from sydney, nova scotia to workington when she straggled from the convoy. owned at time of loss by muir young.

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 600 meter

Known since: 1940

Details measurements/cartography: SANK IN POSN 573000N, 111000W. 30.7.87 30.7.87 SINKING POSN AS ABOVE PLOTS IN APPROX 600MTRS. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES, LL WW2). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 57 30 N,11 10 W

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