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Pan Pennsylvania

Type:: shipwreck, tanker (T3), USA
Built:: 1943, Welding Shipyards, Norfolk VA, USA
Specs:: ( 516 x 70 ft ) 11017 gross tons
Sunk:: Sunday April 16, 1944
torpedoed by U-550, then shelled and sunk by USS Sagamore - 60 survivors
Depth:: 240 ft ?

Pan Pennsylvania burns in the background as the stricken U-550 surfaces — *Pan Pennsylvania* burns in the background as the stricken U-550 surfaces.
The *Pan Pennsylvania* was only six months old.

U-550 and Pan Pennsylvania

Pan Pennsylvania
U-550

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Sea Turtles

There are few marine reptiles and even fewer in the cold North Atlantic. While it would be possible for a salt-water crocodile to swim up from the Caribbean, there is no record of one ever having done so. Nor are there any of the sea-snakes that are famous in the South Pacific. The only marine reptiles that are encountered in our waters are sea turtles.

The one exception to this is the little Diamondback Terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin. (right) This small turtle ( about 6 inches ) is found only in salt marsh environments. Adults are very strong swimmers and have even been noted in the ocean surf, although I don't think they venture offshore.

Green Sea Turtle

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