This is the information page about the shipwreck Pyrrhus, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 44 0 N,11 0 W (44, -11)

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: PYRRHUS

Length 138.7 meter, width: 17.1 meter, draught: 9.8, tonnage 7418 ton

Cause: built in 1914 by workman clarke & co. owned at time of loss by ocean ss co. triple expansion engines of 572nhp for 13.3 knots. passage the clyde for manila. torpedoed and sunk. the ship broke in two. the aft part sank, but the fore part floated for two days. 8 of the 85 crew were lost. (dods).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 4600 meter

Known since: 1940

Details measurements/cartography: 26.3.40 26.3.40 SANK IN 440000N, 110000W APPROX. NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 44 0 N,11 0 W

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