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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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Goody Bags

Goody bags come in several lengths and sizes, but three feet ( yellow mesh ) is by far the handiest and most popular size. Bigger bags are too much of an encumbrance, and if filled to capacity, say with mussels, become too heavy to safely carry underwater.

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