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
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
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