Guaraní (ship)
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The Guaraní was an Argentine rescue ship . In 1958 it was lost in an operation.
history
The Guaraní was originally in 1945 for the United States Army as a tractor LT 817 on the Marietta Manufacturing's shipyard on the Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia built and in 1946 Argentina for 139,000 US dollars sold and registered with the number R 7th
Until 1954 the ship was involved in the rescue operations of the Patagonia transporter (1948), the cargo ships Montreal (1951) and Río Santa Cruz (1952) and in the unsuccessful search for the Lucho IV , (1952). Then the ship was classified as a rescue ship and ordered to Ushuaia on the Beagle Channel . In 1958, the ship played an active role in the Snipe Incident , a dispute between Chile and Argentina over a rock in the Beagle Channel. It was the crew of the Guaraní who dismantled a Chilean lighthouse standing there and threw it into the sea.
loss
On October 14, 1958 at 6:00 a.m., the ship with a crew of 38 people left Ushuaia to reach the Drake Passage. Their job was to use a Douglas DC-4 , which flew to Antarctica in an emergency, dropped medical material there and flew back immediately due to the lack of a landing strip, as a weather and orientation station. On October 15, the ship reported a water ingress by radio, its position was about 10 nautical miles southwest of Nueva Island. It was also announced that the island should be approached in order to get to safety there. A short time later you received an interrupted message from the ship, this was the last communication with the Guaraní .
The search was initiated immediately after the wireless connection was lost. The shortly thereafter returned and another DC-4 and two Consolidated PBY maritime patrols took part. The destroyers San Luis and Cervantes ran at 23.00 on October 15, Puerto Belgrano , the Lifeboat Diaguita at 19.20 from Mar del Plata from. In addition, the Chilean frigates Covadonga and Iquique took part in the search. On October 19, one of the aircraft involved in the search reported an oil spill between Nueva Island and Isla de los Estados , 220 nautical miles from the scene of the accident. The search was stopped on October 27, 1958, and neither ship nor crew were ever found.
Footnotes
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.histarmar.com.ar/InfHistorica/Guarani.htm
- ↑ "El Mercurio de Valparaiso", from August 17, 2008 (accessed August 6, 2009): que habían sido lanzadas al agua por el personal del patrullero argentino “Guaraní”,
