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![]() "3,038 tons. Built in 1976. Owned and operated by Rederei Gerd A Gorke. Registered in Antigua. C/O Gerzy Woyteos. Bound Southampton to Belfast. Wrecked March 26th 1997 on Newfoundland rocks near Porth Hellick, East side of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. N:049.54.80. W:006.16.71. Broke in two and lying in 27m of water with a 60 degree list. Cargo of 200 containers of which several broke loose. One is still in the hold, 139 were recovered after floating and being salvaged. 60 have yet to be recovered which have all sunk, although locations of a few are known. Cargo included tobacco, computer hardware, Marks & Spencer clothes, door, tyres, granite tombstones, shirts, car parts, scales, jet skis, forklift trucks and motor cycles valued in the millions. 6 containers contained 18 tons of re-chargeable batteries, these could be dangerous". (origin of pic not known)
66 MACKENZIE CRESCENT, REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA. S4N 5G5. ![]() A further 80,000 to 110,000, subject to duplication checks, currently being entered.
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