SMS Yorck

Type:
Cruiser
Class:
Roon
Builder:
Blohm & Voss GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Launched:
May 14, 1904
Keel Laid:
April 25, 1903
Completed:
November 21, 1905
Fate:
Sunk Nov. 4, 1914 by a German mine. Sections of the wreck have been raised and scrapped.

Location: North Sea, Jade Estuary, 10 miles north of Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
(53.40N - 08.05E)

336 crewmen killed, unknown number of survivors.


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Page published Sept. 5, 2011