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.Photo: Woodym555, CC BY-SA 3.0.
SS Thistlegorm
- Type: Scuba diving
- Description: British armed Merchant Navy ship built in 1940
- Categories: cargo ship, shipwreck, recreational dive site, historic site, disaster remains, and sports location
- Location: South Sinai, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
27.81409° or 27° 48′ 51″ northLongitude
33.92005° or 33° 55′ 12″ eastOpen location code
7GVMRW7C+J2OpenStreetMap ID
node 255316037OpenStreetMap feature
historic=wreckOpenStreetMap feature
sport=scuba_divingWikidata ID
Q32276
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“SS Thistlegorm” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سفينة زيستل جورم”
- Basque: “SS Thistlegorm”
- Catalan: “SS Thistlegorm”
- Danish: “SS Thistlegorm”
- Danish: “Thistlegorm”
- Dutch: “Thistlegorm”
- French: “SS Thistlegorm”
- French: “Thistlegorm”
- German: “SS Thistlegorm”
- German: “Thistlegorm”
- Irish: “SS Thistlegorm”
- Italian: “Thistlegorm”
- Japanese: “ティッスルゴーム号”
- Occitan (post 1500): “SS Thistlegorm”
- Persian: “اساس تستلگرم”
- Polish: “SS Thistlegorm”
- Polish: “Thistlegorm”
- Russian: “SS Thistlegorm”
- Russian: “Тистлегорм”
- Spanish: “SS Thistlegorm”
- Spanish: “Thistlegorm”
- Ukrainian: “SS Thistlegorm”
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