Salvage of the Sosostres
July 22, 1916: Bound for Ocos, Guatemala, to attempt to salvage the stranded steamer Sosostres, formerly of the Cosmos Line…
Wreck of the Sosostris: Version 3
“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.”
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Wreck of the Sosostres: Version 2
“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…”
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Wreck of the Sosostres, Version 1
“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”
