This is the information page about the shipwreck Stancliffe, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 61 21.22 N,0 18.14 E (61.45, -5.8)

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: STANCLIFFE

Length 117.3 meter, width: 16.2 meter, draught: 7.6, tonnage 4511 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore

Cause: vessel, built 1936, was captured & torpedoed by german submarine u-37, 45m ne of uist, shetland. owned at time of loss by stanhope steamship co. on passage from narvik for middlesbrough.

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 187 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1975

Details measurements/cartography: 4.8.72 4.8.72 SANK 45M NE OF UIST, IN POSN APPROX 612115N, 001815E. (WW2SL). 23.6.75 23.6.75 CHART AS USC PA 127MTRS. BR STD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 61 21.22 N,0 18.14 E

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