Peltastis wreck
Nationality: Greek
Purpose: transportation
Type: cargo ship
Year of construction: 1953
Manufacturer: Kremer D. W. Sohn, Elms-
horn
Diesel engine from: MAK - Maschinenbau
Kiel, Kiel
Owner: Atlantis Mercantile & Shipping Co.
(Chr. M. Sarlis & Co.), Patras
Alternative Name: Peltastis, the Greek, for-
merly ALSTERPARK
Current: Average
Visibility: Average (5 - 10 m)
Tonnage: 499 grt
Dimensions: 60 x 9.1 x 5.5 m
Material: steel
Power: about 825 CV
Speed: 11 knots
Position on the seabed: upright
War Tomb: no
Special features and sizes:
The foremast tree: 8m depth
The mezzanine mast: 12m depth
The bow: 17m depth
The bridge: 21m depth
The propeller: 31m depth
The holds: 20 m depth, easy to visit.
The engine room is aft, on the lower deck.
Dimensions: length 60 m width 8 m
The sea gives, the sea takes....
During the night between 7 and 8 January
PELTASTIS WRECK
KRK ISLAND, CROATIA
by: Michela Di Paola
Travels
1968, accomplices the heavy Bora gusts
that tore off the moorings made by the 13
crewmembers at 2 nautical miles north of
Crickvenica, the sea dragged to the bottom
near Silo the Greek mercantile Peltastis.
The engine’s strength failed to cope with the
wind and the waves and the ship, loaded
with timber according to some, and honey