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S.S. Coloradan (1942) The last journey…….

SS Coloradan was a 6,000-ton cargo vessel owned by the American Hawaiian SS Company. On her last voyage she sailed from the Persian Gulf, routed from Durban to Trinidad and then on to New York.

The ship was torpedoed by the German submarine U-159, 250 miles SW of Cape Town, South Africa and sank in deep water.

Large cargo of manganese ore
Some general cargo
3 tons of drums of gold precipitates

The crew
The 48 survivors quickly launched the two lifeboats...

6 crew members were lost in the after house of the ship. Survivors were split 23 in boat 2 and 26 in boat 1
Men from boat 2 were picked up by the British destroyer HMS Active and then landed in Cape Town on October 14th.
15 of them were aboard the Dutch motor passenger ship Zaandam, which was sunk by U-174 on November 2nd: 6 of the Coloradan survivors died.
The 9 survivors were eventually repatriated to New Orleans aboard SS Gulfstate then SS Yarmouth on November 29th, 1942.

As per the requirement of United Kingdom Salvage Law, the recovered cargo was delivered to Southampton into the control of the Receiver of Wreck at the Department for Transport.

The Receiver held the cargo for the requisite period to determine the ownership and subsequently a salvage award was made.



http://www.deepoceansearch.com/project/steam-ship-coloradan/