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SANTA LEONOR - IMO 5242093
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Ship built as transport for the U.S. Navy and configured for 575 crew and 1740 passengers. Her military career took place in the Pacific carrying troops and wounded. At the time of the accident she was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Vancouver (Canada), under the command of Captain Donald Johnson and governed by the Chilean pilot Ernest Ruiz Muñoz. She hit a reef at SW of Isabel Island, then drifted to Adelaide island where she laid on the starboard side. Shipwreck attributed to a navigational error. More information on http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?59767
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Name: RIVERSIDE - Keel: 11.11.43
Type: Passenger/cargo - Launch Date: 13.4.44
Flag: USA - Date of completion: 18.12.44
Tons: 8007 - Link: 2415
DWT: 12595 - Yard No: 414
Length overall: 150.0 - Ship Design: C3-S-A1
LPP: 141.8 - Country of build: USA
Beam: 21.2 - Builder: Ingalls
Location of yard: Pascagoula
Number of screws/Mchy/Speed(kn): 1ST-16.5
1947 P.& T.FORESTER - 57 MORMACWAVE - 66 SANTA LEONOR
wrecked 52.32S/73.37W 31.3.68 [Rio de Janeiro-Vancouver, general]
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