SS Antilles
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Script error: No such module "Infobox ship". Built for the French Line, Antilles was a near-sister to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. of 1952. Her construction was completed and her maiden voyage made in 1953. She differed from her sister mainly because she was painted white. She was placed on West Indies cruise service in the 1960s.[1]
Her career was much shorter than her sister's. On 8 January 1971, she struck a reef near the island of Mustique in the Grenadines while attempting to navigate Lansecoy Bay, a shallow and reef-filled bay on the northern side of Mustique. Why Antilles′ captain decided to sail into the narrow, shallow strait is still not known. But on hitting the rocks the impact ruptured a fuel tank and she caught fire. All of her passengers and crew evacuated the ship safely to the island of Mustique and they were rescued by the Cunard Line′s Queen Elizabeth 2.[2]
The burnt-out hulk could not be freed from the reef, so the ship lay there for several months, eventually breaking in half.[3] Many years later she would be partially scrapped on the spot and moved just a few hundred yards to her final resting place in the channel off Lansecoy Bay.
The wreck site is submerged off Mustique and is barely visible on Google Earth at Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.; the mast protrudes from the water during low tide. Although the ship wrecked on a reef, reaching the site is dangerous because of the rip tides that form in the area.
Popular culture
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Either Script error: No such module "Lang". or Antilles appeared in stock footage in the 1964 Perry Mason television episode "Nautical Knot", set near Acapulco, Mexico. The scenes on board were filmed on a studio set. P&O's equally popular SS Arcadia also appears in the episode. SS Antilles is also featured in the Danish movie "Hvorer liget, Møller?"[4]
References
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- ^ Ocean Liners; by Olivier LeGoff and Claude Molteni De Villermont.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Middleton, Ned. "The Antilles, Malta". Simply Scuba. Archived from the original on 2012-09-04. Retrieved 2012-07-14.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."1970s Mustique, Grenadines, SS Antilles Shipwreck Aerials, 16mm". YouTube.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hvor er liget, Møller?". www.dirchland.dk. Retrieved 2025-10-21.
External links
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