This is the information page about the shipwreck Manchester brigade, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 53.01 N,10 22.04 W (54.8335, -10.667333333333)

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: MANCHESTER BRIGADE

Length 127.4 meter, width: 16.3 meter, draught: 10.2, tonnage 6042 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,personnel

Cause: built in 1918 by irvine's sb & dd co, west hartlepool. owned at time of loss by manchester lines ltd. three boilers, triple expansione engine of 690nhp, single shaft. passage manchester for montreal in convoy. torpedoed by u 137. 62 men lost, 4 rescued. (ww2sl, llww2, dods, axis submarine successes, sii).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 300 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2000

Details measurements/cartography: 21.3.78 21.3.78 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS OFF CO MAYO. (DODS) 14.10.00 14.10.00 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 5453.00N, 1022.00W. (WW2SL, LL WW2, & AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 53.01 N,10 22.04 W

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