SS Catania (+1917) WRECK

SS Catania (+1917) WRECK

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SS Catania (+1917)

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nationality:
italian
purpose: transport
type: ocean liner
propulsion: steamer
date built: 1906
status:
unknown
details
weight (tons): 3188  grt
dimensions: 95,8 x 13 x 5,5 m
engine: triple expansion engine
power: 288  n.h.p.
speed: 13  knots
about the loss
cause lost: torpedo
date lost: 16/03/1917  [dd/mm/yyyy]
casualties:
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builder:
Cantieri Nav. Bacini e Stab. Mec. Siciliani , Palermo
owner:
Societa Italiana Di Servizi Marittima, Venice
captain:
about the wreck
depth: 300 max. / -- min. (m)
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entered by: Vleggeert Nico
entered: 02/05/2009
last update: Vleggeert Nico
last update: 10/08/2010
 
 
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Vleggeert Nico02/05/2009
latitude:39°32'0X'' N
longitude:015°42'0X'' E
division:1'=60''
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Lettens Jan10/08/2010The Catania has been described in various sources as a cargo, while it seems to have been an ocean liner.

This has now been confirmed, since the Italian Government, under pressure from the public, started to look for ´Maffia sunken ships of toxic waste´. During this search, they found the S/S Catania in 300 m of water.

This, of course, does not mean that the area is free of toxic ships. See also this news item.
Vleggeert Nico02/05/2009On a voyage from Bombay to Naples, the Italian steamship Catania was torpedoed by U-64 (Robert Moraht) and sank 15 miles from Belvedere, Calabro.
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Amato Ezio  19/01/2010
Tubeworms noticed and collected while studying a shipwreck suspect to hide toxic and radioactive waste and turned to be the piroscafo CATANIA, sunk in 1917. This has been a rare opportunity to see in the Mediterranean Sea invertebrates living on a bathyal hard substratum. Utilizing an old chair and other material available on board the survey ship MARE OCEANO, the crew prepared a basket suitable to be utilized by an arm of the work class remotely operated vehicle to bring at the surface a sample. The animals congregate in many parts of the shipwreck, these ones lives close to the bow. Now under investigation, this tubeworm appears to be a new species for science and their endobacteria lives on a source of energy to be clarified.
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