SS Westburn wreck

Name: SS Westburn.

Type: Steam cargo vessel.

Length: 107.2 meter.

Displaced: 3,320 tons.

Sinking date: 23 February 1916.

Cargo: 3.878 tons of Welsh steam coal.

Built at:  Short Brothers, Sunderland, England under Hull 228 on 31 August 1893.

Reason sinking: Scuttled to avoid capturing by Allies.

Location: Near playa de Las Gaviotas, Santa Cruz, Tenerife.

Depth: 32 meter and broken in several parts, the starboard side is almost gone.

• SMS Möwe a privateer working under the orders of German Imperial Navy captured on 09 February 1916 the SS Westburn some 530Nm NE from Brazil. The SS Westburn was on route from Liverpool to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 200 prisoners were put from the SMS Möwe to the SS Westburn with direction Santa Cruz, Tenerife, she arrived 22 February 1916.
• The ship bell of the SS Westburn is now in the Church of St. Andrew the Apostle in San Andres, Tenerife.

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