This is the information page about the shipwreck Norhilda, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 16.391 N,0 17.089 W (54.2731833, -0.2848167)

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: NORHILDA

Length 70.1 meter, width: 11.3 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1175 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Torpedoed and sunk by german submarine while on passage harwich to tyne.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 32 meter, Height above seabed: 74 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 20160220

Details measurements/cartography: SANK 5M SE FROM SCARBOROUGH. (WW1SL). H5106/17 INS WK IN 541500N, 001000W. - FNM 537/17. H124/19 3.1.19 NO OBSTN FOUND. (VAEC). H3752/26 11.6.26 INS AS NDW (PA) (1917) ON 1191. H4593/59 10.11.59 AMEND TO NDW (PA). NC 1200. 5.12.74 AMEND TO USC PA 28MTRS. NC 129. H1310/84/22 1.8.84 LOCATED AND DIVED ON. POSN FIXED BY RADAR. IDENTIFIED AS NORHILDA. STANDS 6MTRS HIGH IN GEN DEPTH 36MTRS [HWS]. (P J LASSEY, 19.7.84). AMEND TO WKPA 28MTRS. BR STD. H1310/86/34 16.12.86 CONFIRMED AS WK OF NORHILDA - NAME ON WHEELBOSS. LIES UPRIGHT IN 541624N, 001700W, WITH BOWS AND STERN INTACT. BOILERS AND ENGINE EXPOSED. LEAST DEPTH 28 IN GEN DEPTH 38MTRS [MHWS]. (G WADSWORTH, 13.11.86). TIDAL REDUCTION 6MTRS. NCA. HH100/351/06 5.3.93 LOCATED IN 541623.5N, 001658W USING GPS. STANDS 2MTRS HIGH. (A C JACKSON, 9.2.93). AMEND TO WK 24MTRS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. HH090/730/01 18.11.97 EXAM'D 8.7.98 IN 541623.1N, 001706.3W [WGD] USING DGPS. SWEPT CLEAR 24.7, FOUL 25.0MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 26.2 IN GEN DEPTH 32MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 1.0MTR. DCS3 HT 4.0MTRS. LENGTH 75MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS. LIES 070/250 DEGS. WELL PRESERVED WK. UPRIGHT. SLIGHT SCOUR TO NE AND S. COLLAPSED SUPERSTRUCTURE EVIDENT ON DCS3 RECORDS. (GARDLINE, HI 730). BR STD. SEP 2016/000007250 07.06.16 EXAM'D 22.02.16 IN 5416.391N, 0017.089W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 21.49MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 32MTRS. LENGTH 71.1MTRS, WIDTH 12.9MTRS, HT 11.6MTRS, ORIENTATION 074/254. SCOUR LENGTH 81.9MTRS, 3.6MTRS DEEP TOWARDS 074DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY, MAINLY INTACT. (EGS, HI 1472). AMEND DW 21MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: Mainly intact.

Position: 54 16.391 N,0 17.089 W

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