HMT Texas
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TR-57
was laid down as a steam trawler by Kingston Shipbuilding
Company in Canada. She was launched in 1919 and delivered
to British Royal Navy who used her as an auxiliary navy
vessel. In 1920 she was sold to the American Gulf Export
& Transportation Company and renamed Colonel
Roosevelt. After the outbreak of World War Two she was
again requisitioned by Royal Navy and refitted as an armed
trawler and renamed HMT Texas. She sank after a collision
19. July 1944 outside Port Royal. The wreck rest today on
her keel like a classic Donald Duck wreck on a depth of 23
to 33 meter outside Kingston harbor. Also see the wreck of
Cayman
Trader.
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