A submersible which takes tourists to see the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing, Sky News understands.

It is not clear how many people, if any, were on board at the time, and it is understood that coastguards are looking for the vessel in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Sky News has located the Polar Prince tugboat that is on the water around 700m away from the Titanic wreck site, via MarineTraffic.

The tugboat is used to transport submersibles.

Tourists sometimes pay to be taken to the wreckage of the liner – 12,500ft under water.

The Titanic sank into the Atlantic on 15 April 1912 during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York after hitting an iceberg, with some 1,500 people dying in the disaster.

The wreck – discovered 37 years ago – is in the Atlantic about 400 nautical miles from Newfoundland in Canada.