Wreck of Hirano Maru (ship, 1908)
United Kingdom
- Position
- About 51.4° N, 5° W (within about 10 km)
- Sank
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- Cause
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- Depth
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Protection status
Location generalised to protect a protected site
The position shown is generalised to within about 10 km. The exact position is not published.
Officially designated: protected shipwreck (Section 1).
Legal basis: protected shipwreck (Section 1).
How this was decided: Voydar's protection rules, from the sources we hold, confidence 90%. When in doubt, Voydar generalises the position.
Hirano Maru was a Japanese transport ship operated by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha shipping line. She was built by the Mitsubishi Dockyard and Engine Works in Nagasaki, Japan, and operated on the Yokohama-Liverpool route from 1908. On 4 October 1918 she was travelling through the Celtic Sea, having just left Liverpool, when she was torpedoed by the German submarine UB-91. She sank with the loss of 291 of her 320 passengers and crew. Memorials to those who died were erected in Welsh churchyards where some of the dead were buried.
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