SS Benwood SS Benwood The "Benwood" is a shipwreck off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. The Norwegian merchant freighter "Benwood" (360'x51') was under the command of Captain Torbjørn Skjelbred on the night of April 9, 1942. She was on a routine voyage from Tampa Bay, Florida to Norfolk, Virginia carrying a load of phosphate rock. That same evening, the "Robert C. Tuttle"(544'x70') was traveling to Atreco, Texas, under the command of Captain Martin Johansen. Rumors of German U-boats in the area forced the two ships to travel completely blacked out, each keeping the Florida coastal lights three miles abeam("Benwood")and one and
Save Ontario Shipwrecks sank on August 8, 1917, during a summer gale off Amherst Island near Kingston, Ontario The SOS Ohio chapter explored 22 wrecks in Fathom Five National Marine Park in 1986-1987, a popular place to snorkel and scuba dive. The "Sweepstakes", for example, a two-masted schooner which sank in 1885, lies just below the surface in Big Tub harbor. SOS also explored the wreck of the SS "Keystorm" (1909–1910), which struck Scow Island shoal in fog near Alexandria Bay, New York on October 12, 1912. Although SOS generally surveys shipwrecks, chapters also explored The Lost Villages. Guard Lock 21, which was