This is the information page about the shipwreck Empire path, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 21.601 N,2 50.405 E (51.3816333, 2.6202333)

 

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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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2. A-15 (possibly)
3. Apache
4. Ardmount
5. Auretta
6. Birkenfels
7. Bourrasque
8. Bowsprite (bow section)
9. Cmb 1
10. Cmb 71a
11. Dawdon
12. Dortmund
13. Emeraude
14. Empire path
15. Fl5
16. G 96
17. Harpalyce
18. Heinkel 111
19. Hm motor launch 561
20. Hms basilisk
21. Hms brilliant
22. Hms colsay
23. Hms gracie fields
24. Hms grafton
25. Hms grafton
26. Hms plumpton (probably)
27. Hms sirius
28. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
29. Hms wakeful
30. Hms waverley
31. Hms whitley
32. Jeannine andre
33. John mahn
34. Keulse vaart iv
35. Lct(r) 457
36. Lst 420 (stern section)
37. Lst 80
38. M 3610
39. Marie
40. Marie
41. Maurice
42. Mont louis
43. Nashaba
44. Nautica ena
45. Neutron
46. Neutron
47. Nippon
48. P 319
49. Putten
50. Queen of the channel (possibly)
51. Quo vadis
52. Ra.2 (possibly)
53. Rijnstroom
54. Rita
55. Robert l vann
56. S 168
57. Sampa
58. Samsip
59. Samvern (w part)
60. Senator holthusen
61. Sigurds faulbaums
62. Slera ventana
63. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
64. Torpilleur branlebas
65. U 11
66. Ub 13
67. Ub29

 

Name: EMPIRE PATH

Length 123.7 meter, width: 16.2 meter, draught: 10.1, tonnage 6140 ton

Cause: H1310/88/46 28.8.88 mined 8m off ostend, in ballast. 3 killed. (r verpoorte, 28.8.88).

Year of registration: 1945

Water depth above wreck: 20 meter

Known since: 1945, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: 17.2.45 DW, 2 MASTS VISIBLE ABOVE HIGH WATER, IN 512118N, 025106E. (NOI/C OSTENDE 18.1.45)

- NM 515/45. H0619/45 2.4.45 G CONL LT BUOY, GPFL(3)G.10S LAID 1C N OF WK. (ADMIRALTY)

- NM 966/45. 8.8.45 POSN NOW 512142N, 025022E. (ADMIRALTY)

- NM 2323/45. H3697/52 10.10.53 DRIFT SWEEP 28.8.53. CLEAR AT 28FT, FOUL AT 29FT, LEAST E/S 33FT IN GEN DEPTH 66FT. WK IS 37FT ABOVE SEABED IN 512142N, 025022E AND LIES 150DEGS, 500YDS FROM BUOY MARKING IT. FIXED BY HSA. WK IS OF SMALL EXTENT, AND THERE IS NO SCOUR. SEABED EVEN SAND. (HMS SHACKLETON, 10.9.53)

- NM 2342/53. H0619/45 20.5.57 RAREFL ADDED TO BUOY. (OSTEND NM 6/35/57)

- NM 1084/57 & NM 1745/57. H7262/55 3.3.60 BUOY MOVED TO 1C N OF WK. (OSTEND NM 3/31/60) R/S. H7262/55 6.3.61 SALVAGE OPS COMPLETED. SWEPT CLEAR AT 15MTRS. BUOY WITHDRAWN. (OSTENDE NM 2/24/61)

- NM 571/61. 12.1.73 SW 15.0MTRS SHOWN IN 512139N, 025029E ON BELGIAN 101. HH342/710/03 31.7.96 NOW IN TWO PORTIONS IN 512142N, 025031E AND 512138.5N, 025030.5E. DEPTH UNCHANGED. (BELGIAN NM 15/121/96) AMEND POSN TO 512140N, 025031E. BR STD. 17.12.02 SHOWN AS WKS SW 15.0MTRS, WITH D/L EXTENDED TO N, IN 5121.617N, 0250.420E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 101 [INT 1474] [2002 EDN, ADOPTION]. NE 1874. SEP 2010/000138707 17.9.10 SHOWN AS SW 14.9MTRS [LAT] IN 5121.601N, 0250.405E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 102 [NE DTD 6.10, 1:60,000].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 21.601 N,2 50.405 E

 

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