Goslar (ship)

Goslar's wreck in the Suriname River
History
Germany
NameGoslar
NamesakeGoslar
OwnerNorddeutscher Lloyd
Port of registryBremen
RouteBremen – AustraliaNew Zealand
BuilderBlohm+Voss, Hamburg
Yard number485
Launched3 October 1929
Completed30 November 1929
Identification
Fatescuttled 10 May 1940
General characteristics
Typecargo ship
Tonnage6,049 GRT, 3,613 NRT, 9,690 DWT
Length449.6 ft (137.0 m)
Beam57.6 ft (17.6 m)
Depth26.8 ft (8.2 m)
Decks2
Installed power3,800 shp
Propulsion
Speed13 knots (24 km/h)
Crew64
Sensors and
processing systems
Notessister ships: Frankfurt, Chemnitz, Erlangen

Goslar is a partly-submerged shipwreck in the Suriname River in Paramaribo, Suriname. It is the remains of a Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) steam turbine cargo ship that was built in 1929. When the Second World War began in 1939, she sought refuge in Surinam, which was then a Dutch colony. When Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940, her crew scuttled her.

There have been attempts to salvage the wreck. In 1955 the wreck broke in two. Both parts of the wreck remain visible above water.