This is the information page about the shipwreck Yorkshire, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 44 52 N,14 31 W (44.866666666667, -14.516666666667)

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: YORKSHIRE

Length 146.9 meter, width: 17.7 meter, draught: 12.2, tonnage 10184 ton
Load: personnel,flammable liquids and gases,general and mixed goods

Cause: built in 1920 by harland & wolff. owned at time of loss by bibby line. turbine engines of 946nhp for 15 knots. passage rangoon for liverpool in convoy hg3. torpedoed by u-46 and u-37. considerable loss of life in spite of being attended to by other vessels. 58 lost from complement of 278. (dods, lloyds war losses wwii, axis submarine successes 1939-45).

Year of registration: 1939

Water depth above wreck: 3900 meter

Known since: 1939

Details measurements/cartography: H095/39 5.1.40 H095/39 5.1.40 VESSEL SUNK IN 445200N, 143100W APPROX. (LL, NID). NCA.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 44 52 N,14 31 W

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