Salvage of the Sosostres
July 22, 1916: Bound for Ocos, Guatemala, to attempt to salvage the stranded steamer Sosostres, formerly of the Cosmos Line…
July 22, 1916: Bound for Ocos, Guatemala, to attempt to salvage the stranded steamer Sosostres, formerly of the Cosmos Line…
“Here is the most picturesque wreck along the coast. In 1909 the German ship, “Sosostres,” of Hamburg, on her first voyage, a stranger along a strange coast, arrived at this anchorage.”
“Suppose a tidal wave came along and smashed things up pretty generally, but ended up by picking up a big fine steamer and washing her over the bar into shoal water near the beach, leaving her there high and dry…”
“March 8, 1914: A striking feature, just north of the loading station, standing upright, high and dry on the beach, is the large German steamer “Sosostres” deposited there by a tidal wave at time of some great commotion which I believe occurred at the eruption of the volcano Santa Maria”