This is the information page about the shipwreck Rudolf breitscheid, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 55 43.844 N,21 4.747 E (55.640833333333, 20.927666666667)

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.

Name: RUDOLF BREITSCHEID

Length 142 meter, width: 18.6 meter, draught: 7.3, tonnage 4993 ton
Load: metal: concentrate and products

Cause: ran aground during a storm.

Year of registration: 1988

Water depth above wreck: 5 meter, Height above seabed: 90 cm

Known since: 1988, last detected: 2023

Details measurements/cartography: H3144/69 18.10.88 AGROUND NEAR THE MOLE AT KLAIPEDA. ABOUT 6,000 TONS OF STEEL HAVE BEEN UNLOADED, BUT OPS NOW STOPPED AND VESSEL HAS NOT REFLOATED. (LL, 11.10.88). NCA YET. H3144/69 28.11.88 VESSEL BROKEN IN TWO. BOW SECTION, INCLUDING 3 HOLDS, REFLOATED AND WILL PROBABLY BE SCRAPPED. STERN SECTION, 4 & 5 HOLDS AND ENGINE ROOM, LIE TOO DEEP AND MOST LIKELY WILL BE LEFT WHERE SUNK. (LL, 4.11.88). NCA YET. H3144/69 23.1.89 STRANDED WK IN 554351N, 210452.5E. (USSR NM 9353(T)/88). NCA YET. H3472/87 30.6.89 AGROUND A FEW MTRS W AND S OF N BREAKWATER LT. HDG W WITH BOWS COMPLETELY UNDERWATER. BRIDGE SUPERSTRUCTURE, FUNNEL AND MAST AND VIRTUALLY ALL STERN PART OF WK CLEARLY VISIBLE ABOVE WATER. (SHIP REPORT DTD 14.2.89). NCA YET, AWAIT USSR NM. HH304/350/01 30.6.89 CONTRACT AWARDED TO REMOVE AFTERPART, AS SOON AS RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES PERMIT. FOREPART ALREADY REMOVED. (LL, 16.6.89). HH304/350/01 8.2.90 ST IN 554351N, 210452.5E. (USSR NM 466/90).

- NM 618/90. 4.12.15 SHOWN AS ST IN 5543.844N, 2104.750E [WGD] ON LT382001 [ED6.0, DTD 28.10.15]. AMEND TO ST IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 55 43.844 N,21 4.747 E

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