On This Day (24th March) – WW2 Shipwreckollections
SS Lafonia (1911-1943) The British cargo ship, SS Lafonia, which was built in 1911 and weighed over 1,872 tons, was wrecked at sea on 26 March, 1943.
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SS Lafonia (1911-1943) The British cargo ship, SS Lafonia, which was built in 1911 and weighed over 1,872 tons, was wrecked at sea on 26 March, 1943.
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SS Byron Darnton (1943-1946) The American cargo ship – SS Byron Darnton – which was built in 1943 and weighed over 7,000 tons, was wrecked and broke in two whilst aground at Sanda Island.
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The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society is looking to appoint a volunteer ‘Honorary Agent’ in Dartmouth, primarily to take responsibility for looking after the Society’s WW2 collecting mine on the seafront.
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SS Djambi (1919-1943) The Dutch cargo ship, SS Djambi, collided with Silverbeech, a British cargo ship, whilst on route from Liverpool to Beira on 13 March, 1943.
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SS Ger-y-Bryn (1941-1943) The SS Ger-y-Bryn was a British cargo steamer of 5,108 tons, which, whilst on route from Lagos and Gibraltar for Hull, was torpedoed by German submarine U-130 and wrecked at sea on 6 March, 1943.
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SS Seminole (1915-1943) The SS Seminole was an American iron cargo ship of 2,557 tons, which, whilst on route from New York to San Domingo with general cargo, was lost after running aground three miles from the entrance of Yuma Bay, southeast side San Domingo, Dominican Republic, and wrecked in the Oran on 27 February, […]
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