This is the information page about the shipwreck Heemskerk, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 43 N,16 7 W (53.766666666667, -16)

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: HEEMSKERK

Length 133.5 meter, width: 17.4 meter, draught: 9.1, tonnage 6516 ton

Cause: 21.1.41 built in 1919 by neptunwerft. owned at time of loss by vereenigde nederlandsche scheepvaart maats. quarduple expansion engine. passage rangoon for liverpool. bombed & set on fire by german aircraft on 21.1.41. finally sunk by torpedo from u-105 on 26.1.41. 8 men lost. (dods & axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 2500 meter

Known since: 1941

Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 534300N, 160700W. 12.8.87 SINKING POSN AS ABOVE PLOTS IN APPROX 2500MTRS. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). SUNK APPROX 200 W OF IRELAND. (DODS).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 53 43 N,16 7 W

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