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Carmelo Lo Porta wreck Favignana, Sicily

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  • Eddie Clamp
    Established TDF Member
    • Jan 2013
    • 1539

    Carmelo Lo Porta wreck Favignana, Sicily

    Dived the wreck of the Carmelo Lo Porta wreck last thurs off Favignana, Sicily. Got this translation via Bing as my limited Italian did not go so far:

    Yes, because it will seem impossible but the Carmelo Lo Porto, born in the Dutch Bowedes shipyards in 1918 and later passed under the Italian flag, had been requisitioned by the Royal Navy and employed in anti-submarine surveillance when, in 1941, it sank due to the explosion of a steamer loaded with ammunition that was close to it. Recovered and fully restored with the installation of that new engine, it passed into the hands of two Neapolitan shipowners, the last of which that Santo Lo Porto who after renaming it Giorgina, changed it again as Carmelo Lo Porto. He was sailing from Porto Empedocle to La Spezia carrying a cargo of 455 tons of salgemma our "ex Dutch" when on the night of June 23, 1971 he bumped into the Palumbo Rock and forced the 34 crew members to rush to safety.

    Interests me as ex RN in what RN name she had, how she was requisitioned and where she sank in 1941.

    Crap video of the great dive later here

    Wreck detectives - do yr biz please :-)

    Eddie
    Eddie
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGQ61LapY3Q
  • Eddie Clamp
    Established TDF Member
    • Jan 2013
    • 1539

    #2
    Eddie
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGQ61LapY3Q

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    • Spindrift
      TDF Member
      • Feb 2016
      • 184

      #3
      From this website (https://www.favignana.biz/immersioni...ana/?lang=en):

      "Already, because it seems impossible but Carmelo Lo Porto, born in the Dutch shipyards in Bowedes 1918 and later passed under the Italian flag, had been taken over by the Navy and used in anti-submarine surveillance when, in 1941 He sank to the explosion of a ship loaded with ammunition that was close. Recovered and fully restored with the installation of the new engine also, He passed into the hands of two Neapolitan owners, the least of which that Saint Lo Porto that after changing the name Giorgina, The name changed again by recording it as Carmelo Lo Porto. He sailed from Porto Empedocle to La Spezia carrying a load of 455 tons of rock salt our "former Dutch girl" when the night of 23 June 1971 He collided with the Scoglio Palumbo and he forced the 34 crew rushed to get rescued."

      Wrecksite (https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?283875) gives it as Italian.

      I fear the Royal Navy you saw in your translation was the Regia Marina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regia_Marina), the Italian Royal Navy, not ours...!

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