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SUMMARY:SS Mecklenburg I (1916)
DESCRIPTION:The SS Mecklenburg was a Dutch passenger and cargo steamer of 2\,885 gross tons\, built in 1909 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd of Glasgow for Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland of Vlissingen. She worked the cross-Channel mail and passenger route between Tilbury and Vlissingen\, carrying passengers\, crew and cargo between Britain and the Netherlands. She was part of the same Zeeland Steamship fleet as Prinses Juliana and Oranje Nassau\, with sister-ship figures suggesting a vessel of roughly 110 metres overall\, 13.5 metres beam\, and capable of around 22 knots. Fast\, elegant and neutral\, which in 1916 sadly meant “still perfectly able to hit a German mine”\, because war has never been impressed by paperwork. \nOn 27 February 1916\, Mecklenburg was on passage from Tilbury to Vlissingen when she struck a mine near the Galloper Light Vessel\, laid four days earlier by the German minelaying submarine UC-7\, commanded by Georg Haag. She sank in about 30 minutes\, but all aboard were saved. Dutch records give 49 passengers and 63 crew rescued\, while another heritage summary gives 49 passengers and 75 crew\, so the safest public wording is “all passengers and crew were rescued”. For divers\, this is a superb wartime passenger-steamer story: a neutral Dutch mail boat\, a North Sea minefield\, a rapid sinking\, and a wreck tied directly to the dangerous wartime routes between Britain and the Low Countries. Elegant ship. Ugly ending. Very Channel.
URL:https://mutinydiving.com/trip/ss-mecklenburg-i-1916/
LOCATION:Dover Marina\, Esplanade\, Dover\, Kent\, CT17 9FS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Offshore Wrecks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Webb":MAILTO:skipper@mutinydiving.com
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