🇧🇸 SS Sapona 🇧🇸
One of a fleet of concrete ships originally commissioned by former U.S. President, Woodrow Wilson, to serve as troops transport during WWI. It wasn’t completed till after the end of the war.
It was purchased in 1924 by Bruce Bethell, a former British war captain and a liquor merchant out of Nassau. Bethell moved the ship to Bimini and used it used as a floating warehouse to store and distribute his liquor supply during the Prohibition Era, earning him notoriety as 'Bimini’s Rum King'. During a hurricane in 1926, the ship ran aground a few miles off South Bimini, a region commonly referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, and was damaged substantially.
It was then used as a bombing target for training by U.S. fighter planes during World War II. The last time she was said to be used as target practice was by the infamous Naval Squadron Flight 19. The group of five torpedo bombers vanished while returning from a run to the Sapona on December 5, 1945 and all target practice was immediately stopped. A Mariner flying boat was sent out to search for the missing squadron, but also vanished. To this day, none of the aircraft have been located.
Негізгі бет Florida to Bimini Bahamas by boat- SS Sapona
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