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SS Reina del Mar 1981

SS Reina del Mar: Oceanmonarch bermuda
Image: Seavoyage1, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Marker: recorded wreck position (Modern).

Key facts

NameSS Reina del MarWikidata label
Year lost1981Wikidata P793 significant event, point-in-time qualifier
EraModernderived from year
Ship typecruise shipWikidata P31 instance of
Cause of lossScuttledKeyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence
Sea / oceanSea of CreteNatural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon
Nearest coastGreeceNatural Earth (public domain); approx. 3 km from land
Position37.9500, 23.5500Wikidata P793 significant event, coordinate qualifier (CC0)

About the wreck

Ocean Monarch was a passenger steamship that was built by Vickers-Armstrongs in 1950. She served with Furness Bermuda Line for fifteen years, then with a Bulgarian company for three years, renamed Varna. She spent much of the 1970s laid up and was renamed Venus and then Riviera. In the early 1980s, she was renamed Reina del Mar and refitted for further use as a cruise ship, but a fire gutted her; and she was scuttled on 1 June 1981 after another fire broke out.

Location

  • Recorded position: 37.9500, 23.5500 (Wikidata P793 significant event, coordinate qualifier (CC0); may be approximate)
  • Sea / ocean: Sea of Crete
  • Nearest coast: Greece

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Text adapted from the Wikipedia article SS Ocean Monarch (1950) (revision 1372602730), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; 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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