Wreck: Empire kingsley (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Empire kingsley, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 50 8.103 N,5 51.028 W (50.135050, -5.850467)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.
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Shipwreck details
Name: EMPIRE KINGSLEY
Length 132 meter, width: 17.1 meter, draught: 10.4, tonnage 6996 ton
Load: ballast
Cause: built in 1941 by greenock dockyard co. owned at time of loss by the ministry of war transport. triple expansion engine of 320 nhp, single shaft. machinery by d rowan & co ltd, glasgow. passage ghent for manchester. torpedoed by u-315 while part of convoy tbc 103. 47 men lost. (sibi, dods, wwsl & bot).
Year of registration: 1945
Water depth above wreck: 56 meter, Height above seabed: 129 cm
Known since: 1945, last detected: 2013
Details measurements/cartography: H0113/45 4.7.45 SUNK IN 500800N, 053100W (SIC). (PLYMOUTH LIST 840/2). 22.3.45 22.3.45 GOOD SONAR CONTACT. (CINC PLYMOUTH, AUBD301/260). H48 JULY 1945 GOOD SONAR CONTACT IN 500824N 055030W. L 400FT, H48FT. (CINC PLYMOUTH, AUBD 301/258). 12.7.76 12.7.76 WK LOCATED IN 500802N, 055100W USING DECCA. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NCA. H2613/78 10.3.78 H2613/78 10.3.78 LOCATED 1.8.77 IN 500804N, 055058W [OGB] USING HF/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 51MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 57MTRS. SCOUR 1MTR. LIES ROUGHLY NW/SE & APPEARS BROKEN UP. DIFFICULT TO DETECT ON DCS3 TRACE. ROCKS SHOALER THAN WK WITHIN 400MTRS. (HMS FOX, HI42A/77). CHART AS WK 51MTRS. BR STD. 7.2.14 7.2.14 EXAM'D 8.12.13 IN 5008.103N, 0551.028W [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 49.7 IN GEN DEPTH 56.5MTRS. NO SCOUR. LENGTH 140MTRS, WIDTH 27MTRS, HT 6.8MTRS. LIES 129/309 DEGS WITH BOWS WNW. STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY. (MMT, HI 1405). GENERALLY COLLAPSED. TWO BOILERS. LIES AMONGST ROCK OUTCROPS. AMEND WK 49MTRS.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: MAINLY COLLAPSED, BOWS NW, AMONGST OUTDROPS
Position: 50 8.103 N,5 51.028 W
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