Goslar (ship)
''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 World War 2, Second World War began in 1939, she sought refuge in Surinam (Dutch colony), Surinam, which was then a Dutch colonial empire, Dutch colony. When German invasion of the Netherlands, Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940, her crew Scuttling, scuttled her. There have been attempts to Marine salvage, salvage the wreck. In 1955 the wreck broke in two. Both parts of the wreck remain visible above water. Building In 1929 NDL took delivery of four new single-Propeller, screw cargo steamships. Bremer Vulkan in Bremen built ''Frankfurt'' and ''Chemnitz'', while Blohm+Voss in Hamburg built ''Erlangen'' and ''Goslar''. The Bremer Vulkan pair each had a three-cylinder Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion, triple-expansion engine as its main propulsion unit, augmented by ...
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Suriname River
The Suriname River (Dutch: ''Surinamerivier'') is 480 km long and flows through the country Suriname. Its sources are located in the Guiana Highlands on the border between the Wilhelmina Mountains and the Eilerts de Haan Mountains (where it is known as the Gran Rio). The river flows below the reservoir along Brokopondo, Berg en Dal, the migrant communities Klaaskreek and Nieuw-Lombé, Jodensavanne, Carolina, Ornamibo and Domburg, before reaching the capital Paramaribo on the left bank and Meerzorg on the right bank. At Nieuw-Amsterdam it is joined by the Commewijne and immediately thereafter at the sandspit Braamspunt it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. The river has several sets of rapids as well as a few dams, the largest of which is the Afobaka Dam. The river's flow is interrupted by the Brokopondo Reservoir, which therefore divides the river into two sections. The upstream section runs almost entirely through the Sipaliwini district, and the downstream section runs ...
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