Wreck of HMS Polyanthus
Shipwreck site
- Position
- 57.0000° N, 31.1000° W
- Sank
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HMS Polyanthus was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 30 November 1940 from Leith Docks on the Firth of Forth, at an estimated cost of £55,000. Polyanthus was sunk by the German submarine U-952 using new German weapons technology on 20 September 1943 about 1,000 miles southwest of Reykjavík during convoy escort duty in the Battle of the North Atlantic.
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About this wreck
HMS Polyanthus is a recorded shipwreck site at 57.0000° N, 31.1000° W. Seadar tracks wreck locations alongside live vessel traffic — free, with sources from Wikidata and public hydrographic records.