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Type:
shipwreck, freighter, USA ( United Fruit Company, now Chiquita )
Built:
1904, Ireland
Specs:
( 330 x 44 ft ) 3358 gross tons, 35 crew
Sunk:
Saturday January 17, 1942 collision with C2-class freighter Santa Elisa - later torpedoed by U-123 - no casualties
Depth:
100 ft
The San Jose was dynamited in the 1950s. Today she sits in 100 ft of water on a mud bottom. Her wreckage is spread over a wide area, with the main portion of the hull on its port side, pretty much intact. She can be penetrated and divers can enter long corridors with adjoining rooms. The bottom of silty mud can be disturbed very easily, dropping the normally poor visibility to zero.
Editor's Note 2018: This sounds like a very old description. I would expect the wreck has collapsed into a flattened junk pile by now.
The San Jose was a passenger freighter, with a small number of cabins for paying passengers, although no grand facilities as might be expected on a liner.Sailing Timetable - 1912Sailing Timetable - 1916The Santa Elisa sinking after being torpedoed by Italian motorboats in the Meditteranean. ( At least the water is warm. ) Santa Elisa was the same class as AlgolType IXb U-boat U-123, decommissioned and scuttled in port August 1944. Later raised and put in service by France until 1959.
brochures courtesy of Maritime Timetable Images - www.timetableimages.com
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