RMS Carpathia [+1918]

The CARPATHIA RMS was famed for rescuing the passengers of the TITANIC disaster. She was built in 1902 by C.S.Swan & Hunter, Wallsend-on-Tyne (engines by Wallsend Slipway Co Ltd) for the Cunard SS Co. She was a 13.555grt, length 540ft xbeam 64,5ft, one funnel, four masts, twin screw and a speed of 14 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 204-2nd class and 1.,00-3rd class. Launched on 6/8/19 02, she sailed on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Queenstown (Cobh) and Boston on 5/5/1903.

After this voyage, she transferred to the Liverpool - Queenstown - New York service on 28/5/1903. On 24/11/1903 she commenced her first New York - Trieste sailing with 1st and 3rd class passengers and on 17/5/1904 resumed New York - Queenstown - Liverpool. On 29/11/1904 she went back to the New York - T rieste route and on 30/5/1905 resumed the New York - Queenstown - Liverpool service. She started her last voyage on this route on 19/9/1905 and was then refitted to carry 100-1st, 200-2nd and 2.250-3rd class passengers. She resumed sailings between Trieste, Fiume, Palermo and New York on 27/10/1905 and on 18/4/1912 arrived in New York with 700 Titanic survivors. She commenced her last Piraeus - Me ssina - Palermo - Naples - Genoa - Lisbon - New York voyage on 13/4/1915 and transferred to the Liverpool - New York service in July 1915.

On 17/7/1918 she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-55, 170 miles west by north of Fastnet, Ireland with the loss of 5 lives.

Today the ship rests in 155 meters of water, more than 200 miles west of Fastnet Rock in the south of Ireland. The wreck was discovered September 9, 1999 and shot 22. The news was announced by the writer and diver Clive Cussler in 200,021.22. Acquired in 2001 by RMS Titanic Inc. (already in possession of the Titanic), it is sold to the company Seaventures in February 20075.

Cut off the commander of the Carpathia by the survivors of the Titanic stayed on the ship to its sinking. It is therefore likely that it is still inside the wreck. The wreck is regularly visited by divers and several objects were reassembled and restored

Another video of diving in Carpathia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6-pSYdPraM

G-92

 The German destroyers V-44, S-51, V-73, V-82, G-92, V-125, V-128, S-137 were scuttled by their crew at Scapa Flow on June 21st 1919, but the British managed to beach them. They were transfered to British control and were all scrapped in 1922.

nationality: german
purpose: war
type: torpedo boat
subtype / class: Großes Torpedoboot (1913) - V-25 class (ger.)
Großes Torpedoboot (1913) - V-25 class (ger.): V-25 (+1915)
propulsion: steam
date built: 1916
status:
lifted

 cause lost: scuttled
date lost: 21/06/1919

 depth (m.): 3 max

British Shipwreck of Narkunda 1920 in Algeria

The liner Narkunda SS, Capt. L. Parfitt, D.S.C., was serving as an auxiliary transport during the Allied landings in French North Africa in November, 1942. She disembarked her troops at Bougie and had turned about for home when, toward evening on the 14th, she was bombed and sunk some distance off Bougie. Thirty-one persons were killed. Capt. Parfitt was among the survivors.

The Narkunda was put into service in 1920, a passenger ship of the British shipping company Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P & O), which was used in passenger and mail traffic from the UK to Australia and later the Far East. From 1940 she served as a troop ship until 14 November 1942 was sunk on the Algerian coast during a German air raid.

The steamship Narkunda was ordered in 1913 and built at Harland & Wolff in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The First World War delayed the construction of the ship considerably. Only on 25 April 1918 was the 16,227-ton Narkunda be left at Harland & Wolff of the stack. My 1913 also commissioned piece sister ship, the Naldera (15,825 GRT), was built at Caird & Company in Greenock, Scotland in December 1917 and ran from the stack.The 177.22 meter long and 21.16 meter long passenger and mail ship Narkunda had three funnels, two masts and two propellers and was powered by quadruple expansion steam engines, which contributed 15,300 PSI and propel the ship at up to 17.5 knots could . The passenger accommodations were designed for 426 passengers in First and 247 passengers in second class. The Narkunda and Naldera were P & O first three choir Steiner, the first with a rounded cruiser stern and also the then largest ships of the company. The Narkunda expired on 30 March 1920 on her maiden voyage from. In her early years she was employed in the postal service from England to the Mediterranean to Australia. 1927 was converted from coal to oil burning. In 1931 she was transferred to the route to the Far East and went to different ports.After the outbreak of the Second World War led Narkunda its first passenger service further and ran in among other Shanghai and Cape Town until 1940 when it was by the British Admiralty as troop transports and auxiliary cruiser. She came during the Allied invasion of North Africa (see Operation Torch) were used.After they had brought Allied troops in the Algerian port city of Bougie on land, the Narkunda made under the command of Captain L. Parfitt, DSC, on the return journey to the UK. On the evening of 14 November 1942 the Narkunda was not far bombarded by Bougie and sunk by German fighter pilots (position 46.52N/5.01E). 31 people were killed. The Narkunda was the third and last P & O ship that was lost in the area. Parfitt captain survived and was later awarded the Lloyd's War Medal for Bravery at Sea.

Depth: 31 M