EMILIE LOUIS DREYFUSS
- Name: Emilie Louis Dreyfuss
- Type of vessel: merchant ship, general cargo
- Flag: France
- Date of sinking: 08 October 1927
- Cause: grounding
- Location: A Eira shallow, inlet of Sardiñeiro (Corcubión)
- Diving level: basic
- GALP territory: Costa da Morte (Coast of Death)
HISTORY
All the cargo was recovered
The Emilie Louis Dreyfuss mistook the Sardiñeiro inlet for the entrance to the estuary of Corcubión due to the fog, on a day of poor visibility and ran aground. The entire copper cargo was recovered and there was no loss of life among the 23 crew members. This vessel was comprehensively scrapped, so little remains of its shipwreck.
The Emilie Louis Dreyfuss belonged to a type of construction standardised during World War I, the so-called A-type standard steamship.
At the time of the sinking, the shipowner company was Louis Dreyfus & Co. of Dunkirk (France) and the previous one, between 1917 – 1920 was TSC – The Shipping Controller (WWI) (London) as War Thistle.
Features of the Emilie Louis Dreyfuss
Triple expansion steam, 517NHP, 11 knots. 125.6×15.8×7.6 m., 5030TRB. Steel hull.
Built: 1917, John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank (Scotland).
GALLERY
