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Cayru

Shipwreck Cayru

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, Brazil
Built:: 1919, American International Shipbuilding, Hog Island PA USA, as Scanmail
Specs:: ( 390 x 54 ft ) 5152 gross tons, 83 passengers & crew
Sunk:: Sunday March 8, 1942
torpedoed by U-94 - 53 casualties
Depth:: 125-140 ft

The exact location of the Cayru is unknown; the location plotted is one of several wrecks thought to be it. If found, the wreck may be identified by its steam turbine engines, which are distinctly different from piston steam engines.

Shipwreck Gulftrade New York Times

Shipwreck Cayru

U-94 — Type VIIc U-boat U-94 at St Nazaire with Adm. Karl Donitz, sunk August 1942

Screening Level Risk Assessment Package Cayru - NOAA

At 02:25 hours on 9 Mar 1942, the unescorted Cayru (Master Torger Olsen) was torpedoed by U-94, broke in two, and sank 130 miles from New York. All hands onboard abandoned ship, but only the lifeboat with the master and 26 other men was found. The other lifeboats with 47 crew members and six passengers disappeared.

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Fishing Vessels

small commercial fishing vessel — A small commercial fishing vessel of unknown type, although the bushels on deck would imply that she was after some kind of shellfish.

There are three basic types of commercial fishing vessels found in the Mid-Atlantic region: trawlers, seiners/gill-netters, and long-liners. A trawler or "dragger" operates by towing its fishing gear across the bottom. Weighted nets take bottom fishes, while cage-like steel dredges take clams and scallops. A seiner uses a floating net to encircle schools of surface-swimming fishes such as herring and tuna. A long-liner sets out miles of buoyed line with baited hooks to catch sharks, tuna, and swordfish. One could also add lobster boats and charter fishing or "head" boats to this list. And of course, dive boats.

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