This is the information page about the shipwreck U 260, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 18.02 N,9 5.04 W (51, -8.8333333333333)

 

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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: U 260

Length 67.1 meter, width: 6.1 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 871 ton

Cause: struck a mine 50miles sw of kinsale. (german submarines, vol 1). scuttled using explosives in glandore bay.

Year of registration: 1945

Water depth above wreck: 48 meter

Known since: 1945, last detected: 1997

Details measurements/cartography: SANK IN APPROX POSN 511500N, 090500W (BR 1736 (S1)(1A), APP 2). 23.6.97 LOCATED AND DIVED. LIES IN 46MTRS ON ROCKY BED. LIES ON PORT SIDE WITH BOW DAMAGE. TORPEDO TUBES AND SEVERED HYDROPLANE REVEALED. ONE PERISCOPE IS STILL EXTENDED AND WATERTIGHT. SOME OUTER HULL PLATING HAS FALLEN OFF AND THE DECK PLANKING NO LONGER EXISTS. THE NOSE OF ONE TORPEDO CAN BE SEEN IN ONE TUBE AND A FIFTH TUBE IS VISIBLE BETWEEN THE TWIN STEEL PROPS. SNORKEL FITTED AND FOLDED. (DIVER, JULY 1997). RECORD POSN AMENDED.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 18.02 N,9 5.04 W

 

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