Pan Pennsylvania ~ New Jersey Scuba Diving

Pan Pennsylvania

Type:: shipwreck, tanker (T3), USA
Built:: 1943, 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.

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U-550

Type:: shipwreck, Type IXc/40 U-boat, Kriegsmarine, Germany
Built:: 1942, Germany
Specs:: ( 252 x 22 ft ) 1051 displacement tons, 48-56 crew
Sunk:: Saturday April 16, 1944
by depth charges and gunfire from destroyer escorts USS Gandy, USS Joyce and USS Peterson after torpedoing tanker Pan Pennsylvania - 44 casualties.
Depth:: 300 ft

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