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Minnewaska III Shipwreck in Cretan Sea Bed

minnewaskaThe shipwreck of the cruise ship and later warship Minnewaska III has been lying in the sea bottom of Souda in Chania, of the Greek island Crete, over 97 years, at a 23-meters depth.
The Divers’ Club of Crete has been diving in the territorial waters of Souda. Minnewaska III was the third consecutive Minnewaska ship to wreck, a fact for which the ship has been named “cursed.”
The detailed descriptions of the President of the Divers’ Club in Crete, Kostas Konstantinidis, through a long and thorough investigation, of the location and conditions of the shipwreck, as well as of his findings, travel us to the past.
In the sea bottom of Souda, the shipwrecks are many and scattered. As a result, innumerable cultural treasures of all times are being discovered, which reveal the great marine heritage of Greece. The Minnewaska III shipwreck remained hidden and undisturbed by human intervention for many years.
Minnewaska III was a British cruise ship manufactured by the company Harland & Wolff, owned by Atlantic Transport Line in 1909. Until 1915, Minnewaska III made luxury cruises from London to New York Harbor. The British cruise ship’s first journey to New York Harbor was in 1909 and the last on 24 January 1915.
It wrecked on November 29, 1916.

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