SS Salzburg was a German transport ship that was torpedoed by the Soviet submarine M-118 and sank on 1 October 1942 east of Lake Shahany, Ukraine.
Construction Salzburg was constructed in 1921 at the De Groot & V. Vliet shipyard in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She was completed in 1921. The ship was long, with a beam of and a depth of . The ship was assessed at . She had 1 x 3-cyl. triple expansion engine driving a single screw propeller. The engine was rated at 241 nhp.
Sinking Salzburg was torpedoed east of Lake Shahany by the Soviet submarine M-118 on 1 October 1942 while she was carrying 2,200 Russian prisoners of war from Burghaz to Odessa. About 2,000 prisoners and 2 crew members went down with the ship and the M-118 was attacked and sunk that same day by two Romanian minesweepers in the battle of Cape Burnas.
Wreck The exact location of the wreck is unknown, but it is believed to lie at ().
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