REPORT OF WRECKS EXAMINATION
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Sebastian Popek popeks@balticwrecks.com
Maciej Rułka maciek@balticwrecks.com
General area: Baltic Sea
Date located:
Date exam'd/dived: X.2003
Vessel name: TERRA
Detail of loss: unknown
Method of positioning: GPS
located pos'n: 55° 08 .xxx ˘ N 17° 46 .xxx ˘ E
Depths: least depth: 35 msw
general depth: 44 msw
Contact data
height above bottom: 11 m
Lenght: 75 m
Orientation:xxx
Other:
M/T [motorship tanker] TERRA
ex. Gustav Schindler
ex. Oelschindler
Power-driven tanker. Two eight cylinders Diesel engines. Two fixed-pitch propelers. 16 oil tanks (singel bottom). Constructed in 1935 by Nobiskrug, Rendsburg shipyard. New building no. 440.
L bpp 74,1 m
L oA 11,3 m
draft 6,4 m,
registered 1533 BRT
shipowner Hamburger Tankreederei GmbH, Hamburg
Service for Kriegsmarine :
August 4th, 1939 Supply tanker in Kriegsmarine shipyard, Kiel
August 21st, 1939 Supply tanker in Gdynia
1941 Tanker ship for 27th Unterwasserwaffe fleet
October 13th, 1944 Sunk after torpeod attack from soviet submarine SS Lembit (S-4). Torpedo hit her portside about 20 from the bow.
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