KERWOOD exBUDAPEST

1911-BUDAPEST, Built BUDAPEST class, single screw sea-going steam freighter #616 Richardson Duck & Co. Stockton on Tees GBR

1911-BUDAPEST, Atlantica Sea Nav. Co. Ltd. Fiume AH

1914-08.. on laid up at Newport News, Virginia, sold 1917.

1917-KERWOOD, Kerr Navigation Corp., New York, USA

1918-19 US Navy - Naval Overseas Transport Services #1489.

1919.03.19-- returned to owner

1919.11.13-Between 8 and 12 November 2114 bags of mail were collected for Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. On 13 November 1919 the ship left New York with, among other things, food and clothing that was sent by relatives of people in the severely affected Europe. The cargo also included 600 tons of lead and 300 tons of copper in bars and plates. Abernathy was the captain.

1919.12.01-- enroute from New York to Hamburg mined, broke in two and sank at position 53.32N-04.41E. The crew had boarded their lifeboats and were rescued by a German fishing vessel that landed them in Emden.

2002-- the wreck was discovered by divers on the Zeester from Lauwersoog. However, when they were sailing through Westterschelling with copper bars, this was so noticeable that a real hunt started for the position of the KERWOOD

2004-- the Zeester managed to keep the position secret for 2 years until it was discovered by the cutter TS 6 of Walter Bakker from Terschelling. He passed the position on to the Ecuadorian diving team, who managed to recover hundreds of copper bars in 2004. The remainder of the cargo was retrieved from the water by Walter Bakker using a polyp grab with built-in camera, which turned out to be a very lucrative venture and was the reason for establishing the salvage company Friendship BV in Terschelling.