Santa Fe
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Steigerwald
was a refrigerated steam freighter laid down by Deutsche
Werft AG in Hamburg, and was launched in May 1921 for the
German company HAPAG. She was sold in 1937 and
renamed Santa Fe, and after the outbreak of World War Two
she was taken as a prize by French forces who baptized her
to Saint Andre. She sailed for Vichy France until the
German occupation in 1942, here she was handed over to
Mittelmer Reederei and sailed again as Santa Fe. She was
assigned as a military transport in the Mediterranean and
the Black Sea. Under an armed convoy from Constanta to
Sevastapol loaded with military supplies and vehicles 23.
November 1943, she was struck by two explosions outside
Yevpatoria, broke in two parts and went down within a few
minutes. Its is widely believed she was torpedoed by the
Soviet submarine Revolutsioner. Her cargo which consisted
of twelve STUG III self-propelled artillery guns and two
Jagdpanzer's were almost all later salvaged, the last ones
as late as in November 2019. The remains of Santa Fe rest
scattered out in a wide area on a depth of 10 to 24 meter
southwest of Kalamitshy
Bay. Also see the wreck of the submarine hunter UJ-102.
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