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john sefton
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Santa Elena

Post by john sefton » Sat Nov 13, 2010 5:26 pm

SANTA ELENA/SANTA LUCIA. Passenger liner.
Built 1933 by Federal Shipbuilding Corp, Kearny, New Jersey for the Grace Line. 9,135 g.r.t., 484' x 72' Steam turbines. Speed ? Passengers how many ? Both ships from same builder. This company operated the following services:‑ New York and U.S. Atlantic ports to Vest and North coasts of South America. Or San Francisco and Pacific ports to West Coast of Mexico. Central and South America.
Log Book Jan 1986
Panama 1939 SG 358.
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D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen
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Re: Santa Elena

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Thu Apr 05, 2018 7:39 pm

AIR RAID CONVOY KMF 25A
On November 7th, 1943, German planes attack the Naples-bound convoy KMF 25A. Destroyer BEATTEY (DD-640) is sunk by an aerial torpedo 32 miles northwest of Phillippeville, Tunisia.

Dutch troop transport M/V MARNIX VAN SINT ALDEGONDE was torpedoed by German aircraft. She was six miles off Cape Bougaroin Light, Algeria, carrying 3,000 troops and crew from Liverpool to North Africa. She remains afloat and is taken under tow.

Troop transport SANTA ELENA is also torpedoed about 27 miles off Phillippeville and abandoned. Transport MONTEREY takes on board the 1,870 Canadian troops (and nurses) traveling on the SANTA ELENA; the crew and Armed Guard returns to the ship.

The next day, SANTA ELENA suffers further damage when accidentally rammed by the damaged Dutch transport MARNIX VAN SINT ALDEGONDE. The cumulative damage from the torpedo and the collision nullifies the efforts to tow the crippled SANTA ELENA and MARNIX VAN SINT ALDEGONDE to port and they sink the same day.

Four of the 133-man merchant crew perish in the abandonment of SANTA ELENA, but the 44-man Armed Guard survives intact. All on MARNIX VAN SINT ALDEGONDE are rescued.

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