Goslar (ship)

	Goslar's wreck in the Suriname River
History
Germany
Name	Goslar
Namesake	Goslar
Owner	Norddeutscher Lloyd
Port of registry	Bremen
Route	Bremen – Australia – New Zealand
Builder	Blohm+Voss, Hamburg
Yard number	485
Launched	3 October 1929
Completed	30 November 1929
Identification	until 1933: code letters QMKL; ; by 1934: call sign DOBV; ;
Fate	scuttled 10 May 1940
General characteristics
Type	cargo ship
Tonnage	6,049 GRT, 3,613 NRT, 9,690 DWT
Length	449.6 ft (137.0 m)
Beam	57.6 ft (17.6 m)
Depth	26.8 ft (8.2 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	3,800 shp
Propulsion	1 × steam turbine; single-reduction gearing; 1 × screw;
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h)
Crew	64
Sensors and ; processing systems	as built: submarine signalling; by 1931: wireless direction finding; by 1937: echo sounding device;
Notes	sister 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.

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