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
Shipwrecks of Western Australia Dawn", a former American Whale ship, the wooden whalers "Star", "Lively", "Lady Lyttelton" . The iron hulled SS "Macedon", the composite barque "Lady Elizabeth" and the other Rottnest Island shipwrecks assume considerable prominence as a suite of sites presented in the 'wreck trail', 'wreck access' or 'museum-without-walls' mode. In the modern era and the German auxiliary cruiser "Kormoran", adversaries in World War II, have been the subject of extensive study. They were both found in 2008. This is a listing of all shipwrecks recorded on the WA Museum database. Shipwrecks of Western Australia Over 1400 ships have been wrecked on