Goslar
Marker: recorded wreck position (Date not recorded).
Key facts
| Name | Goslar | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Ship type | turbine ship | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Cause of loss | Scuttled | Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence |
| Nearest coast | Suriname | Natural Earth (public domain) |
| Position | 5.8182, -55.1591 | Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0) |
About the wreck
Goslar is a partly-submerged shipwreck in the Suriname River in Paramaribo, Suriname. It is the remains of a Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) steam turbine cargo ship that was built in 1929. When the Second World War began in 1939, she sought refuge in Suriname, which was then a Dutch colony. When Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940, her crew scuttled her.
There have been attempts to salvage the wreck. In 1955 the wreck broke in two. Both parts of the wreck remain visible above water.
Diving & visiting
On 9 October 1940 a prize court declared Goslar a prize of war. However, KNSM assessed that trying to raise and restore the ship would cost more than she was worth. Two other Dutch companies and a Canadian company each expressed an interest in salvaging her, but did not try to raise the wreck.
The UK Admiralty chartered a Merritt-Chapman & Scott salvage tug, the Panamanian-registered Killerig, to try to raise the wreck. Killerig reached Paramaribo on 5 January 1941, and spent more than two months trying to pump Goslar out. But she was unsuccessful, and she left on 21 March.
Location
- Recorded position: 5.8182, -55.1591 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
- Nearest coast: Suriname
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Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Goslar (ship) (revision 1375407369), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section and section(s) “Salvage attempts”; condensed by selecting paragraphs; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.
Wreck facts from Wikidata (CC0).
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