Paris II
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The
trawler Paris was built in Le Havre in France in 1913 for
the company Poret & Lobez, but was after the outbreak
of World War One requisitioned by the French navy and
converted to a patrol boat. The navy just added the number
"II" to her name and sent her to French Syria and assigned
her as a patroø boat along the coastline and eastern
Mediterranean. Outside Kemer in Turkey 13. December 1917
she was taken under fire from Ottoman coastal artillery
and sunk. The wreck was found by divers in 1995, and rest
today on her keel on a depth of 25 to 32 meter right
outside Kemer harbor.
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36' N30° 35' E ( Source: Wannadive )  Picture: Paris Courtesy of WW 2 Wrecks Last updated: December 2020 |
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