This is the information page about the shipwreck Silesia (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 45.46 N,4 52.81 E (58.757666666667, 4.8801666666667)

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: SILESIA (POSSIBLY)

Length 81.7 meter, width: 11.6 meter, draught: 5.2, tonnage 1839 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,wood: unprocessed and products

Cause: built in 1923 by j. crown & sons with triple expansion engines of 200nhp. owned at time of loss by rederi a/b sylvia. torpedoed and sunk by u-boat whilst on passage gothenburg for hull. (dods).

Year of registration: 1939

Water depth above wreck: 207 meter

Known since: 1939, last detected: 2016

Details measurements/cartography: H1819/40 SINKING POSN GIVEN AS 584500N, 045200E APPROX. H4147/82 5.9.83 WK REPD IN 584530N, 045254E [EUR], STANDING ABOUT 10MTRS ABOVE SEABED. (NORWEGIAN NM 1268/83). NCA, TOO DEEP TO CHART. 11.11.91 NDW, LOCATED BY FV ELDJARN, WHILST TRAWLING. NETS SNAGGED. HEIGHT ABOVE SEABED 10MTRS. (NORWEGIAN WRECK RECORDS). NCA. 20.9.04 NOT SHOWN ON NORWEGIAN 306 [OCT 2002 REPRINT]. NCA. 17.2.05 SHOWN AS NDW IN 5845.460N, 0452.810E [WGD]. (CHART BRANCH DECISION) NC 281. 7.7.11 NOT SHOWN ON NO2B0408 [EDN 2.1]. AMEND DEAD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 58 45.46 N,4 52.81 E

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