This is the information page about the shipwreck Viking (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 58 26.157 N,2 30.16 W (58.43595, -2.5026666666667)

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: Viking (Probably)

Length 70.4 meter, width: 10.4 meter, draught: 4.3, tonnage 1153 ton

Cause: single boiler, triple expansion engine, single shaft. torpedoed and sunk by u 19. passage frederikshavn for blyth. only two crew survived.

Year of registration: 2012

Water depth above wreck: 63 meter, Height above seabed: 110 cm

Known since: 2012, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: 8.10.12 EXAM'D 20.5.12 IN 5836.157N, 0230.160W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 60.29 IN GEN DEPTH 63MTRS. NO SCOUR. AREA OF DEBRIS WITH LENGTH 94MTRS, WIDTH 32MTRS, HT 3.9MTRS. LIES 110/290 DEGS. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. IN SEVERAL PIECES. (NETSURVEY, HI 1372). FULLY COLLAPSED AND BROKEN UP. INS AS WK 60MTRS. SEP 2013/000130682 1.7.13 INS BY NM.

- NM 3187/13. 29.11.21 A DIVER SURVEY AND RESEARCH INCLUDING A STUDY OF THE KTB (LOGBOOK) OF U-19 THIS IS PROBABLY THE SS VIKING (1940). (E-MAIL DTD 25/11/21 FROM KEVIN HEATH). AMEND OBJNAM VIKING (PROBABLY).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: FULLY BROKEN UP

Position: 58 26.157 N,2 30.16 W

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