This is the information page about the shipwreck Laurits, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 35.25 N,8 9.5 W (58.679516666667, -8.2808833333333)

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: LAURITS

Length 32.7 meter, width: 7.6 meter, draught: 3.4, tonnage 183 ton

Cause: built in 1907 by j.ph. jorgneson, thuro. owned at time of loss by r.w. rasmussen, thuro. passage barcelona for copenhagen. captured & sunk by gunfire or scuttling charges by german submarine off nw scotland. (ww1sl,llww1 & sibi).

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 300 meter

Known since: 1917, last detected: 1976

Details measurements/cartography: 22.2.80 NDW PA IN 583515N, 080930W [UND]. (US P/O DTD 16.10.76). PLOTS IN 300MTRS. 2.5.91 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 25M NW OF FLANNAN ISLES. (LLWW1). NCA, TOO DEEP AND POSN TO VAGUE TO CHART.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 35.25 N,8 9.5 W

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