SS Thistlegorm
SS Thistlegorm was a British cargo steamship that was built in Sunderland, North East England in 1940 and sunk by German bomber aircraft in the Red Sea in 1941. Her wreck near the Ras Muhammad National Park is now a well-known diving site.
- Scuba diving
- Description: British armed Merchant Navy ship built in 1940
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Latitude
27.81409° or 27° 48′ 51″ north
Longitude
33.92005° or 33° 55′ 12″ east
Open location code
7GVMRW7C+J2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic = wreck
OpenStreetMap feature
sport = scuba_diving
Wikidata ID
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“SS Thistlegorm” goes by many names.
سفينة زيستل جورمArabic
SS ThistlegormBasque
SS ThistlegormCatalan
SS ThistlegormDanish
ThistlegormDanish
ThistlegormDutch
SS ThistlegormIrish
ThistlegormItalian
ティッスルゴーム号Japanese
SS ThistlegormOccitan (post 1500)
اساس تستلگرمPersian
SS ThistlegormPolish
ThistlegormPolish
SS ThistlegormRussian
ТистлегормRussian
SS ThistlegormUkrainian
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