Posts Tagged ‘San Benito Islands’

29th March
2011
written by Richard

On a glassy sea under a clear sky, the Greek freighter SS Irini Stefanou steamed south in early February 1965. Carrying a heavy load of Canadian lumber, the former World War II Liberty ship was destined for London, via the Panama Canal. But its passage would end abruptly on the rocks of the San Benito Islands, 300 miles south of San Diego. . .

The story of a strange Shipwreck.