Dori
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The
Liberty ship Edwin L Drake was laid down at Bethlehem
Shipbuilding Company Ltd in Baltimore, and was launched in
1943 for the U.S government. She was sold in 1954 to
Independent Steamship Company in Detroit and renamed
Phoenix. Three years later she was again sold to the
company Atalaya Cia Naviere SA in Liberia, who renamed her
Dori. On a journey from Emden to New Orleans loaded with
steel coils, she developed a leak and had to be beached at
Sao Miguel 16. January 1964. The battered and worn down
wreck rest today on a depth of 10 to 22 meter on the south
side of the island Sao Miguel, barely a five minute boat
ride from Ponta Delgada.
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 Picture: Edwin L Drake in 1943 Courtesy of Armed Guard Last updated: June 2017 |
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