This is the information page about the shipwreck Thornfield, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 54 10.009 N,5 10.066 W (54.003633333333, -4.95295)

 

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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.

 

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Name: THORNFIELD

Length 48.8 meter, width: 8 meter, draught: 2.9, tonnage 488 ton

Cause: built in 1913 by ramage & ferguson ltd, leith. owned at time of loss by zillah shippin g & carrying co ltd. one boiler, compund expansion engine of 56 nhp, single shaft. machinery aft. passage london for peel. captured and sunk by u-38. (sibi).

Water depth above wreck: 115 meter

Known since: 1915

Details measurements/cartography: SINKING POSN GIVEN AS PD 54100N, 051000W. (NAVAL STAFF MONOGRAPHS, VOL 14). FOR FILING ONLY. AMENDED TO DEAD.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 54 10.009 N,5 10.066 W

 

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