The HMHS Kyarra Wreck History and Sinking
Aboard the Kyarra the shout of “torpedo” sent fear into the heart of everyone. The watchman had spotted the signs but it was already too late.
Aboard the Kyarra the shout of “torpedo” sent fear into the heart of everyone. The watchman had spotted the signs but it was already too late.
She lies on her port side. She is an amazing sight to behold with some of her guns pointing towards the surface.
On 2nd May 1918, she was on a voyage from Newhaven to Calais with a cargo of ordinance and sunk by the German submarine UB-57
SS Luxor was a defensively-armed British merchant ship built in early 1918, she had a very short life indeed.