The Hermes

Built in 1943 in Pennsylvania, the Hermes was originally used as a U.S. Coast Guard buoy tender until the end of World War II. The steel vessel featured a tall mast forward of the wheelhouse and was fitted with a single cargo boom. After being decommissioned, the ship was turned into a freighter registered in Panama under the name Brava Fogo, which relocated to the Philippines to carry mixed cargo. In 1983, in route from Rhode Island to the Cape Verde Islands, the small freighter experienced engine trouble off the coast of Bermuda and barely reached the Harbour. There was no money available for repairs and the crew hadn’t been paid any wages ship was abandoned and the Bermudan Government took possession of the ship and sold her to the Bermuda Dive Association. she was then scuttled on May 15, 1984 to become an artificial reef. She sits in 80 feet of water.