Shipwrecks of the Florida Keys - April 9th

On the night of April 9th, 1942, during WWII, the Norwegian freighter Benwood was struck by five shells while heading to port, leaking and running her pumps, after she had been rammed in the stern by another vessel, the Robert C. Tuttle. The shells sank her, and she currently rests inside John Pennekamp State Park, near Key Largo.