This is the information page about the shipwreck Empress (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 45.384 N,0 9.335 E (53.569150, 0.093600)

 

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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. Ac 9
2. Acklamd (possibly)
3. Airdrie (possibly)
4. Amenity
5. Arcona champion
6. Audacity
7. Avalon
8. B o borjesson
9. Beaconsfield
10. Bellerophon
11. Biesbosch
12. Box hill
13. Boys own
14. Brabant
15. Breitenburg
16. Brema
17. British councillor
18. British prince
19. Briton (possibly)
20. Cadmus
21. Canada
22. Chant 63
23. Chloris (possibly)
24. City of birmingham
25. Coastal fort no 1 (part of)(possibly)
26. Coastal fort no-1
27. Corhampton
28. Corinth (possibly)
29. Cramlington (possibly)
30. Cyclope
31. Dana (possibly)
32. Daphne ii
33. Dayrian
34. Deerpool (after section)
35. Deerpool (for'd section)
36. Diana
37. Diana
38. Dido
39. Dryade
40. Dryburgh (part of)(possibly)
41. Dunsany
42. Empress (probably)
43. Ethel (possibly)
44. Exmoor
45. Faunus
46. Feltre
47. Femke
48. Fermo
49. Forest queen
50. Fowberry tower (part)
51. Fowberry tower (part)
52. Francis
53. Fryken
54. Georgie
55. Georgios
56. Gerhardt (possibly)
57. Girl kitty (possibly)
58. Giuseppe
59. Gothic
60. Grangemouth
61. Harlech
62. Harnis (probably)
63. Helmsman (probably)
64. Hms benvolio
65. Hms botanic
66. Hms calverton
67. Hms corfield
68. Hms cortina
69. Hms dervish
70. Hms egret
71. Hms fairy
72. Hms falcon (stern section)
73. Hms falmouth
74. Hms lormont
75. Hms mistletoe
76. Hms othello
77. Hms princess victoria
78. Hms remillo
79. Hms st cyrus
80. Hms strathborve (part)
81. Hms susarion
82. Hms yorkshire belle
83. Horsted
84. Hugh taylor
85. Ida
86. Ightham (possibly)
87. Ionic (probably)
88. J b paddon
89. Janet helen (possibly)
90. John and thomas
91. John mowlem
92. John rettig (probably)
93. Kalo (probably)
94. Kimberley (possibly)
95. Kingston cameo
96. Knuthenborg
97. Kyma
98. Ladas (possibly)
99. Lady anstruther (probably)
100. Lady dinah
101. Lifeguard (possibly)
102. Longbenton (probably)
103. Lord haig (possibly)
104. Lord haig (possibly)
105. Lord selborne
106. Lottie (possibly)
107. Lucerne
108. Lyra (bow section)
109. Magdalyn ann
110. Maggie
111. Magnolia (probably)
112. Mangalore (part of)(possibly)
113. Marian francis
114. Markersdall (probably)
115. Marshall (probably)
116. Modig
117. Modiva (possibly)
118. Monimia (possibly)
119. Nadod (possibly)
120. Nautilus
121. Nimrod
122. Norfolk coast
123. Odessa
124. Onward (possibly)
125. Ophir ii (possibly)
126. Orsa
127. Otis tetrax
128. Paraciers
129. Peebles (possibly)
130. Peggotty
131. Portia
132. Ravonia (part)
133. Ravonia (part) (possibly)
134. Rayford
135. Realf
136. Reculver
137. Retriever
138. Revi
139. Rhuys
140. Rievaulx abbey
141. Rivaulx
142. River don (part of)(probably)
143. River witham
144. Sagacity
145. Salacon
146. Salmondby
147. Saltoun
148. Sandra glen
149. Sarah visholm 2 (probably)
150. Sna iii
151. Sota eduardo
152. Stanburn
153. Teano
154. Tees
155. Thessaly
156. Thomas deas
157. Togston (possibly)
158. Tredegar hall
159. Triton
160. Uc 39
161. Uc 47
162. Uc 75
163. Umbe
164. Upminster (possibly)
165. Varangmalm (possibly)
166. Venture (possibly)
167. Ville de valenciennes
168. Wayside flower (possibly)
169. Whitemantle (possibly)
170. William hanson
171. Windsor (part of)
172. Windsor (part of)
173. Winga
174. Xavier
175. Xavier
176. Zeemermin

 

Name: EMPRESS (PROBABLY)

Length 95.7 meter, width: 12.5 meter, draught: 6.4, tonnage 2914 ton
Load: coal

Cause: ex-cadiz, ex-empress. built in 1893 by furness, withy & co ltd, west hartlepool. owned at time of loss by amaryllis shipping co ltd. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 249hp, single shaft. machinery by t richardson & sons, hartlepool. passage the tyne for southend on sea. cargo coal. struck a mine laid by uc-63. five men lost.

Year of registration: 1917

Water depth above wreck: 16 meter, Height above seabed: 128 cm

Known since: 1917, last detected: 20200917

Details measurements/cartography: H7594/17 TWO MASTS VISIBLE. H3095/18 30.8.18 TO BE SURVEYED. (TH). SANK 4.5 MILES E BY S 1/2 S FROM WITHERNSEA LTHO. (DODS). H1310/86/9 19.2.86 UNCHARTED WK LOCATED IN 534509N, 000921E. POSN BY DECCA. A SUBSTANTIAL WK - ABOUT 2000TONS. ARMED. STANDS 4MTRS OFF SEABED. (S COOPER, 4.2.86). INS AS USC 13MTRS. BR STD. SEP 2021/000166150 8.9.20 EXAM’D 17.9.20 IN 5345.384N, 0009.335E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 11.27MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 16MTRS. LENGTH 99.4MTRS, WIDTH 22.3MTRS, HT 5.5MTRS. ORIENTATION 128/308 DEGS. (CLINTON MARINE SURVEY AB, HI 1587). WELL DEGRADED, WITH BOILER VISIBLE. AMEND DW 11.2MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: DEGRADED, WITH VISIBLE BOILER. UK NM 3021/21

Position: 53 45.384 N,0 9.335 E

 

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