This is the information page about the shipwreck U 156 (possibly), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 59 44.21 N,1 55.9 E (59.736833333333, 1.9316666666667)

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: U 156 (POSSIBLY)

Length 64.9 meter, width: 8.8 meter, tonnage 1875 ton

Cause: mined in northern barrage.

Year of registration: 1974

Water depth above wreck: 120 meter

Known since: 1974, last detected: 2020

Details measurements/cartography: 4.7.74 LOSS POSN 594500N, 020000E. (U BOAT INTELLIGENCE, E GILES). NCA. H1271/83 23.3.83 NDW SHOWN IN 594415N, 015600E [EUR] ON NORWEGIAN 307 [1982 EDN]. BR STD. H1310/84/8 2.3.84 NORWEGIAN HYDROGRAPHER REPORTS POSN OBTAINED FROM TRAWLERS. (A CROTHALL, LTR DTD 2.3.84). NCA. HH100/351/13 18.9.97 FROM GERMAN SOURCES U-156 SHOULD, ON 25.9.18, PASS FROM 595700N, 013000E TO 592100N, 024200E. NEARLY ON THIS SUPPOSED LINE LIES [637] AS THE ONLY MARKED WRECK. THIS WK IS ALMOST FOUND ON THE SPOT WHERE THE FIRST LINES OF MINES, DANGEROUS FOR SUBMARINES PASSING BETWEEN 90 AND 160 FEET, IN THE NORTHERN BARRAGE, WAS LAID ON 30.7.18. IT IS KNOWN FROM THE BRITISH SUBMARINE L-8, ON PATROL, THAT U-156 PUSHED ON UNDERWATER. THUS THIS WRECK MIGHT BE U-156. (C H ANKARBERG, LTR DTD 13.9.97). RECORD AMENDED TO U-156 (POSSIBLY) AND RECORD [670] AMENDED DEAD. NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 59 44.21 N,1 55.9 E

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