This is the information page about the shipwreck Invershannon, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 40 N,22 4 W (55.666666666667, -22.066666666667)

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: INVERSHANNON

Length 146.3 meter, width: 19.2 meter, draught: 10.7, tonnage 9154 ton

Cause: 20.9.40 built in 1935 by bremer vulkan. owned at time of loss by inver tankers. oil engine of 1001nhp for 12 knots. torpedoed by u-99 on 20.9.40 and sank the following day. 17 men lost. (dods & axis submarine successes).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 1300 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1987

Details measurements/cartography: H01001/40 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 554000N, 220400W. 7.8.87 SINKING POSN AS ABOVE PLOTS IN APPROX 1300 MTRS. (WW2SL & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). SUNK APPROX 800 MILES W OF SCOTLAND. (DODS).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 55 40 N,22 4 W

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