This is the information page about the shipwreck Walkure, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 54.832 N,1 44.145 E (52.7504, 2.0371)

 

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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. Aberhill
2. Actuosity (possibly)
3. Afon towy and deerwood (possibly)
4. Alice taylor
5. Alster
6. Alston
7. Angele-erika
8. Artemisia
9. Asteria
10. Ayrshire (possibly)
11. Barrhill
12. Bertha
13. Boulderpool (after part)
14. Boulderpool (fwd part)
15. British triumph
16. Camilla weston
17. Cantabria (probably)
18. Cardanel
19. Chevington
20. Clansman (possibly)
21. Continental (possibly)
22. Corchester
23. Cordene
24. Corduff
25. Courier (probably)
26. Cross sand ltv
27. Dashwood
28. Efos
29. Ems
30. English trader
31. Ethel
32. Excellenz mehnert
33. Friesland
34. Fulgens
35. Galatea (possibly)
36. Gallois and oxshott (possibly)
37. Gardenia
38. Geneva
39. George fisher
40. Georgia (for'd part)
41. Glen derry (probably)
42. Granta
43. Hauxley (possibly)
44. Hector gannet
45. Hms agate
46. Hms cantatrice
47. Hms cloughton wyke
48. Hms dhoon (probably)
49. Hms dungeness
50. Hms force
51. Hms francolin
52. Hms glen prosen
53. Hms tonbridge
54. Hms tranio
55. Hms true accord (probably)
56. Hms washington (probably)
57. Hms william stephen
58. Hmsm c 11
59. Hmsm d5
60. Homefire
61. I t l anna b
62. Ilse
63. Ionian (probably)
64. Jevington court
65. King egbert
66. La perouse (possibly)
67. Langeli (possibly)
68. Leelite
69. Londoner (probably)
70. Marsworth
71. Meriones
72. Montferland
73. Mount ida
74. Murdoch (probably)
75. Navarra (possibly)
76. Nereus
77. Nordborg (possibly)
78. Norman queen
79. Oakgrove
80. Ole bull
81. Osprey
82. Otter
83. Oxshott (possibly)
84. Pacific (possibly)
85. Pacific (possibly)
86. Pegrix
87. Prima
88. Regain
89. Robrix
90. Roine
91. Rose marie
92. Roy
93. Rye
94. Salvus ii
95. Seagull
96. Seaham
97. Sheaf water
98. St mark
99. Stanmount
100. Thursonian
101. Trevethoe
102. Upminster
103. Vanguard
104. Vanilla (probably)
105. Varoy
106. Vigo
107. Viola (possibly)
108. Waldinge
109. Walkure
110. War valley
111. Whintown (possibly)
112. Willowpool
113. Xanthe
114. Yewvalley (possibly)

 

Name: WALKURE

Length 81.4 meter, width: 12.2 meter, draught: 7.3, tonnage 1907 ton
Load: general and mixed goods,metal: concentrate and products,foodstuffs: solid

Cause: ex-conway. built of steel in 1896 by a mcmillan & son, dumbarton. onwed at time of loss by h folsh & co. passage hamburg for santos. general cargo including tinned food, household goods and 3 cars. stranded. all crew recovered by the gorleston lifeboat.

Year of registration: 1912

Water depth above wreck: 18 meter, Height above seabed: 82 cm

Known since: 1912, last detected: 20190216

Details measurements/cartography: H3264/12 29.7.12 CONSPICUOUS STRANDED WK IN 525415N, 014430E. (AUTH'Y NOT KNOWN). INS AS STPA CONSPIC (1912).

- NM 1088/12. 1913 LEGEND 'CONSPIC' DELETED. (AUTHORITY NOT KNOWN). H4282/26 16.10.26 AMEND TO DW. NE 1408. H335 13.1.31 AMEND TO DWPA. NES 1094, 1408. NOT LOCATED DURING SONAR SEARCH. (HMS SHARPSHOOTER, 1951). NCA. H1952/80 25.1.83 EXAM'D 1.6.82 IN 525449N, 014417E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST DEPTH 8.3 IN GEN DEPTH 14MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 23MTRS. WK LIES ON EDGE OF A TRENCH WHICH MAY NOT BE ENTIRELY A SCOUR. (SOISS, HI 22). BR STD. HH100/351/04 27.3.91 DIVED ON AND IDENTIFIED AS WK OF 3 MASTED BARQUE CONWAY, WHICH SANK IN 1911. LIES ON EDGE OF SANDBANK WITH BOW IN 10MTRS AND STERN IN 25MRS DEPTH. HULL IS INTACT. THE 3 MASTS LIE OVER THE SIDE. (BOB HIGGINBOTTOM, 24.2.91). HH090/604/01 16.11.93 EXAM'D 7.7.93 IN 525448.4N, 014416.0E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [3 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR AT 10.0, FOUL AT 10.3MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 10.4 IN GEN DEPTH 16 TO 23MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 22.6MTRS. DCS3 HT 8.0MTRS, LENGTH 65MTRS, BREADTH 18MTRS. LIES, WITH SAND BANKED ON N SIDE OF WK, 090/270 DEG. A SUB SURFACE BUOY OR NETS APPEARS TO BE ATTACHED TO WK. (OCEONICS (UK) LTD, HI 604). BR STD. SEP 2020/000100123 19.5.20 EXAM'D 16.02.19; IN 5254.832N, 0144.145E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 10.28MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 18MTRS, LENGTH 102.11MTRS, WIDTH 20.84MTRS, HEIGHT 9.7MTRS, ORIENTATION 082/262 DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 262.9MTRS, WIDTH 67.7MTRS, 7.15MTRS DEEP, TOWARDS 150 DEGS. WRECK IS UPRIGHT AND INTACT, LYING IN A LARGE SAND WAVE. (MERITAITO, HI 1580). AMEND DW 10.2MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 54.832 N,1 44.145 E

 

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