This is the information page about the shipwreck Sampa, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 24.234 N,2 53.121 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. Bowsprite (bow section)
10. Callisto
11. Charles d mciver
12. Cmb 1
13. Cmb 71a
14. Croxteth hall
15. Dawdon
16. Dortmund
17. Eleftheria
18. Emeraude
19. Empire path
20. Fl5
21. Francis asbury
22. G 96
23. Gold shell
24. Harpalyce
25. Heinkel 111
26. Hm motor launch 561
27. Hms basilisk
28. Hms brilliant
29. Hms colsay
30. Hms gracie fields
31. Hms grafton
32. Hms grafton
33. Hms hayburn wyke
34. Hms maori
35. Hms plumpton (probably)
36. Hms polly johnson
37. Hms sirius
38. Hms wakeful
39. Hms waverley
40. Hms whitley
41. Hoop op vrede (n 741)
42. Jeannine andre
43. John mahn
44. Kap arkona
45. Keulse vaart iv
46. Kompas
47. Lct(r) 457
48. Lst 420 (bow section)
49. Lst 420 (stern section)
50. Lst 80
51. Lucy jenny ii
52. M 3610
53. Marie
54. Maurice
55. Mont louis
56. Msc alyssa
57. Mts vector
58. Nashaba
59. Nautica ena
60. Neutron
61. Neutron
62. Nippon
63. Normandie
64. P 319
65. Putten
66. Queen of the channel (possibly)
67. Ra.2 (possibly)
68. Rijnstroom
69. Rita
70. Robert l vann
71. S 220
72. S.192 (possibly)
73. Saint therese de jesus
74. Sampa
75. Samselbu (after part)
76. Samselbu (fwd part)
77. Samsip
78. Samvern (e part)
79. Samvern (w part)
80. Senator holthusen
81. Senator sthamer
82. Sigurds faulbaums
83. Slera ventana
84. Sperrbrecher 170 (probably)
85. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
86. Torpilleur branlebas
87. U 11
88. Ub 13
89. Ub29

 

Name: SAMPA

Length 128.9 meter, width: 17.4 meter, draught: 10.7, tonnage 7219 ton
Load: general and mixed goods

Cause: mined in convoy with a loss of 16 lives.

Year of registration: 1945

Water depth above wreck: 11 meter

Known since: 1945, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H01279/45 6.4.45 DWPA IN 512412N, 024800E, MARKED BY G CAN BUOY GP.FL(2)G.10S. (ADMIRALTY).

- NM 966/45. H02608/45 29.5.45 2 MASTS VISIBLE IN 512416N, 025306E, MARKED BY BUOY. AMEND POSN. BR STD. H01279/45 8.8.45 REPEATED. (ADMIRALTY). H01279/45 8.8.45 AMEND TO DW (2 MASTS) IN 512416N, 025306E, WITH GP FL(2)G, 10S, BUOY, CLOSE E OF WRECK.

- NM 2323/45. H3697/52 10.12.55 AMEND TO WK 5.5 MTRS, MARKED BY SAME BUOY. (HAGUE NM 252/3439/55). AMEND TO WK 3FMS, G CAN BUOY GPFL(2)G 10SEC.

- NM 2942/55. H3697/52 22.5.58 BUOY HAS DISAPPEARED. (OSTEND DBZ 20/58). NCA YET. H3697/52 15.5.62 SALVAGE OPERATIONS. (OSTEND NM 8/67(T)/62). NCA. H3697/52 14.11.62 AMEND TO SW 14.6 MTRS & DELETE BUOY. (OSTEND NM 21/161/62). AMEND SW 8FMS, DELETE BUOY.

- NM 2446/62. 12.1.73 SW 15.0 MTRS SHOWN ON BELGIAN 101. NC 125. POSN: 512417N, 025313E [EUR]. (NETHERLAND WK RECORDS). HH342/700/01 13.3.97 NOW IN 512415N, 025314E [EUR]. (BELGIAN NM 5/69/97). BR STD. SEP 2010/000138707 14.10.10 SHOWN AS SW 14.9MTRS [LAT] IN 5124.234N, 0253.121E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 102 [NE 1.6.10].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 51 24.234 N,2 53.121 E

 

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