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LAERTES Titusville
The Dutch steamship Laertes was built in 1919 by Taikoo Dockyard &
Engineering Company, Hong Kong. Owned by Nederland Stoomy, she was
423.9 feet long, had a 52.3 foot beam, displaced 5,825 tons and was
pushed by a single screw triple expansion engine. The Laertes was
powered by a 413 nhp triple expansion engine and had a top speed of
13.5 knots.
On May 3, 1942, the Laertes was torpedoed and sunk by a German
submarine. Some say it was the work of the U-564, while others claim
it was the U-109. At the time she was on a voyage from New York to
Bombay, with a 5,230 ton cargo of war supplies, including three
aircraft, 17 tanks and 20 trucks. A total of 18 of her crew went
down with her.
Today the Laerte's scattered wreckage sits in 72 feet of water
eleven miles off Port Canaveral. This wreck is also locally known as
the Dutch Wreck.
Basic shipwreck
information and images for this section of this site was taken with
permission from the book Florida Shipwrecks by Daniel Berg. You are
invited to submit your shipwreck related articles, images and
information. As long as the text, photographs, sketches etc are of
professional quality we will showcase them. Full credit will be
provide and a same page link to your web site can be arranged.
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