Goya (steamer)

See also: Goya

The Goya was a German Navire of refugees, in the beginning builds like cargo liner under the name of Akers with Oslo in 1940. It had a 131 meters length and a width of 17 meters.

The April 16th 1945, the Goya sailed in the the Baltic towards Western Germany, overloaded with refugees fleeing the Red Army and the war, including members of the 35e regiment of German armoured tanks. As the boat passed the peninsula of Hel to the exit of bay of Danzig, it was located by the Soviet Sous-marin L-3 . To 23:52, the commander of the L-3 , the captain Vladimir Konovalov, gave the order to draw.

In less than seven minutes, the Goya was torpedoed and ran with an approximate depth of 78 meters, by losing at least 6 000 people. The exact number will probably never be determined, the list of the passengers stopping abruptly with 6 100. Only 165 people were saved.

For the torpedoing of the Goya , the Soviet captain was later rewarded by the title for Héros for the Soviet Union.

Exactly 58 years after the shipwreck of the Goya , the wreck is discovered the April 16th 2003 by an international forwarding under the direction of Ulrich Restemeyer with the assistance of Sonar S 3D. It rests with 76 meters below the level of the the Baltic and is in a state of remarkable conservation.

See too

Liste of the steamers
Cape Garded
Wilhelm Gustloff
General von Steuben

External bonds

the forwarding of research of the wreck of Goya enters the 12 and the April 22nd 2003 with ms Fritz Reuter and a team of the MDR.

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