Goya
5,230 tons. Used for troop evacuation from Hela near Danzig (Gdansk) at the Bay of Danzig. Eastimated vessel was carrying 6,000 to 7,000 plus persons. Lives lost 7,000(estimated). Torpedoed by Russian L-3 off Rixhoft and broke in two. Also shown 60 miles off Port of Stolpe near Cape Rozewie. Owned by the Hamburg America Line. ex- Norwegian vessel. Still fairly well intact (1998). She Lies in 77m of water wrapped in fishng nets. ..........."Two divers, one Dutch and one German, are reported missing after diving the WW2 Baltic wreck GOYA. Polish authorities reported that the divers were part of an international expedition to dive the wreck in the Southern Baltic. The GOYA was lost in 1945, at the end of WW2, and was believed to be carrying up to 7,000 German refugees, fleeing the rapidly advancing Russian army. After setting sail, the ship was torpedoed by Russian submarine L-3, and 6,200 people lost their lives. The maritime disaster is believed to be second only in scale to the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, also sunk by a Russian submarine in the Baltic in 1945, when an estimated 6 - 7,000 wounded German troops and refugees were lost"..............Divernet News 29th April 2003.
