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 (51.3816333, 2.6202333)

 

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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-15 (possibly)
3. Apache
4. Ardmount
5. Auretta
6. Bowsprite (bow section)
7. Callisto
8. Cmb 1
9. Cmb 71a
10. Dawdon
11. Dortmund
12. Emeraude
13. Empire path
14. Fl5
15. G 96
16. Harpalyce
17. Heinkel 111
18. Hm motor launch 561
19. Hms basilisk
20. Hms brilliant
21. Hms colsay
22. Hms gracie fields
23. Hms grafton
24. Hms grafton
25. Hms plumpton (probably)
26. Hms sirius
27. Hms wakeful
28. Hms waverley
29. Hms whitley
30. Jeannine andre
31. John mahn
32. Keulse vaart iv
33. Lct(r) 457
34. Lst 420 (stern section)
35. Lst 80
36. M 3610
37. Marie
38. Maurice
39. Mont louis
40. Nashaba
41. Nautica ena
42. Neutron
43. Neutron
44. Nippon
45. Normandie
46. P 319
47. Putten
48. Queen of the channel (possibly)
49. Ra.2 (possibly)
50. Rijnstroom
51. Rita
52. Robert l vann
53. Sampa
54. Samselbu (fwd part)
55. Samsip
56. Samvern (w part)
57. Senator holthusen
58. Sigurds faulbaums
59. Slera ventana
60. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
61. Torpilleur branlebas
62. U 11
63. Ub 13
64. 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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