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 (51.381633333333, 2.6202333333333)

 

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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.

 

1. "t" vliegent hart
2. A 10 (possibly)
3. A-15 (possibly)
4. Aloha
5. Anton hammerbacher
6. Apache
7. Ardmount
8. Auretta
9. Birkenfels
10. Bourrasque
11. Bowsprite (bow section)
12. Bowsprite (bow section)
13. Charles d mciver
14. Cmb 1
15. Cmb 71a
16. Croxteth hall
17. Dawdon
18. Dortmund
19. Eleftheria
20. Emeraude
21. Empire path
22. Fl5
23. Francis asbury
24. G 96
25. Gold shell
26. Harpalyce
27. Heinkel 111
28. Hm motor launch 561
29. Hms basilisk
30. Hms brilliant
31. Hms colsay
32. Hms gracie fields
33. Hms grafton
34. Hms grafton
35. Hms hayburn wyke
36. Hms maori
37. Hms plumpton (probably)
38. Hms polly johnson
39. Hms sirius
40. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
41. Hms wakeful
42. Hms waverley
43. Hms whitley
44. Hoop op vrede (n 741)
45. Jeannine andre
46. John mahn
47. Kap arkona
48. Keulse vaart iv
49. Kompas
50. Lct(r) 457
51. Lst 420 (bow section)
52. Lst 420 (stern section)
53. Lst 80
54. Lucy jenny ii
55. M 3610
56. Marie
57. Marie
58. Marie
59. Maurice
60. Mont louis
61. Msc alyssa
62. Mts vector
63. Nashaba
64. Nautica ena
65. Neutron
66. Neutron
67. Nippon
68. P 319
69. Putten
70. Queen of the channel (possibly)
71. Quo vadis
72. Ra.2 (possibly)
73. Rijnstroom
74. Rita
75. Robert l vann
76. Robert-clara
77. S 168
78. S 220
79. S.192 (possibly)
80. Saint therese de jesus
81. Sampa
82. Samselbu (after part)
83. Samsip
84. Samvern (e part)
85. Samvern (w part)
86. Senator holthusen
87. Senator sthamer
88. Sigurds faulbaums
89. Slera ventana
90. Sperrbrecher 170 (probably)
91. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
92. Torpilleur branlebas
93. U 11
94. Ub 13
95. 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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