Definitely a little-known battle between the Allies and Germany during the war, and one that occurred in North America. It was a series of confrontations between German U-boats and anti-submarine units on the lower St. Lawrence River in Canada.
From the September 21st Huffington Post Travel Blog "Diving Newfoundland's World War II Shipwrecks" by Margie Goldsmith.
She had the U-513 sinking the four ships featured, although I found that elsewhere, there were two U-boats involved.
All fours sunken ships are in just 60 feet of water and sitting upright.
The SS Sayanaga wreck has a torpedo hole you can swim into. At 11:07 am, Sept. 5, 1942, the U-513 slipped into the bay and found the Sayanaga on its way out headed for North Sydney with a load of iron ore. It fired two torpedoes, but a battery switch on each was not set and the torpedoes sank to the bottom. Two more were fired and struck, sinking the vessel in less than 30 seconds.
of the 48 crewmembers (including three naval gunners), 30 were reported missing.
The four sunked ships today are considered to be some of the best cold water diving in the world.
Newfoundland has at least 10,000 shipwrecks.
I Had No idea Newfoundland Had That Many Shipwrecks. --Cooter
No comments:
Post a Comment