This is the information page about the shipwreck Empress, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 58.768 N,1 16.376 E (53.0506667, 1.1718667)

 

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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. Actuosity (possibly)
2. Algarve
3. Amberley
4. Ambrose fleming
5. Antiope
6. Asteria
7. Bertha
8. Birtley
9. Blackburn
10. Boulderpool (fwd part)
11. British triumph
12. Camilla weston
13. Chelsea (possibly)
14. Chevychase
15. Clan morrison
16. Continental (possibly)
17. Corchester
18. Cormarsh
19. Czestochowa
20. Duncarron
21. Efos
22. Eikhaug
23. Empire newcomen
24. Empress
25. Ethel
26. Francois trixier
27. Friesland
28. Gardenia
29. George royle
30. Georgia (stern section)
31. Granta
32. Hauxley (possibly)
33. Heathfield
34. Hjordis
35. Hms arley
36. Hms caroline moller
37. Hms cloughton wyke
38. Hms dungeness
39. Hms francolin
40. Hms kylemore
41. Hms solomon
42. Hms vortigern
43. Hmsm c 11
44. Hmsm umpire
45. Homefire
46. I t l anna b
47. Jessie maersk
48. Jevington court
49. Kenton
50. Keymun
51. King egbert
52. Lanterna (probably)
53. Londoner (probably)
54. Marden
55. Minorca
56. Nimrod (probably)
57. Ole bull
58. Ottar jarl
59. Otter
60. Pacific (possibly)
61. Pacific (possibly)
62. Pontfield (forepart)
63. Rimac
64. Robert w pomeroy
65. Rosalie (possibly)
66. Salvus ii
67. Sitona
68. St mark
69. St thomas (possibly)
70. Tayjack 1 (part of)
71. Tayjack 1 (part of)
72. Teddington
73. Thursonian
74. Trajan
75. Traviata (possibly)
76. Trelissick
77. Tyneford
78. Upminster
79. Varoy
80. Vera (probably)
81. Virgin de lourdres
82. Welholme (possibly)
83. Western mist (possibly)
84. Westland
85. Winhill or whinhill
86. Zephyr

 

Name: EMPRESS

Length 88.7 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 6.1, tonnage 2025 ton
Load: ballast

Cause: Built in 1882 by short bros, sunderland. owned at time of loss by taylor & sanderson shipping co. two boilers, compound expansion engine of 204hp, single shaft. passage london for sunderland. in ballast. struck a wreck and foundered.

Year of registration: 1915

Water depth above wreck: 16 meter, Height above seabed: 10 cm

Known since: 1915, last detected: 20200507

Details measurements/cartography: H429/15 25.1.15 SANK 2.5M NE OF SHERINGHAM CG STN. MARKED BY BUOY. INS AS ST (1915) (PD) IN 525900N, 011415E.

- NM 62/15. H670/15 6.2.15 POSN NOW 026 DEG, 2.6M FROM LOWER SHERINGHAM CH. AMEND TO ST IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 96/15. H2634/15 10.6.15 DISPERSED TO 45FT. WK MARKING VESSEL WITHDRAWN. (TH). AMEND TO WK 7FMS 3FT.

- NM 516/15. H335/31 23.3.51 LOCATED IN 525846N, 011628E. OROPESA SWEEP CLEAR AT 45FT. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 1950). AMEND POSN. BR STD. H1270/71 18.11.71 DIVED ON. VERY BROKEN UP. HIGHEST POINT ARE BOILERS AND ENGINE ROOM AREA WHERE WK STANDS BARELY 4FT HIGH. LITTLE REMAINS OF HULL AND SUPERSTRUCTURE WHICH ASSUMED TO HAVE BEEN PARTLY BUILT OF WOOD. (E GILES, UNDERMARINE OPS LTD, 13.10.71). 14.3.73 AMEND TO WK 13.3MTRS [LAT]. NC 106. HH090/561/01 7.1.92 EXAM'D 22.8.92 IN 525844.8N, 011628.2E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS. DRIFT SWEEP CLEAR AT 13.5, FOUL AT 13.6MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 13.3 IN GEN DEPTH 16.2MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 1.0MTR. DCS3 HT 1.5MTR, LENGTH 50MTRS, WIDTH 20MTRS. LIES 025/205 DEG. (SEATEAM, HI 561). AMEND POSN. BR STD. 18.5.15 WK 13.29MTRS IN 5258.767N, 0116.375E [WGD], LENGTH 42MTRS, WIDTH 12MTRS, HT 3.6MTRS, ORIENTATION 225. (BDC EXAMINATION OF CEFAS SURVEY DS20/DS21). AMEND WK 13.2MTRS, NFS. SEP 2020/000083299 13.1.21 EXAM'D 07.05.20; IN 5258.768N, 0116.376E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 13.32MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 16MTRS, LENGTH 44.65MTRS, WIDTH 14.18MTRS, HT 3.45MTRS, ORIENTATION 010/190 DEGS. SCOUR DIMENSIONS LENGTH 57.34MTRS, WIDTH 40.95MTRS, 0.72MTRS DEEP, TOWARDS 010 DEGS. (A-2-SEA SOLUTIONS LTD, HI1673, H525 WI-10633). AMEND DW 13.3MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: VERY BROKEN UP

Position: 52 58.768 N,1 16.376 E

 

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