SS Salzburg was a German transport ship that was torpedoed by the Soviet submarine M-118 and sank on 1 October 1942 east of Lake Shahany, Ukraine.
Construction
Salzburg was constructed in 1921 at the De Groot & V. Vliet shipyard in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She was completed in 1921. The ship was long, with a beam of and a depth of . The ship was assessed at . She had 1 x 3-cyl. triple expansion engine driving a single screw propeller. The engine was rated at 241 nhp.
Sinking
Salzburg was torpedoed east of Lake Shahany by the Soviet submarine M-118 on 1 October 1942 while she was carrying 2,200 Russian prisoners of war from Burghaz to Odessa. About 2,000 prisoners and 2 crew members went down with the ship and the M-118 was attacked and sunk that same day by two Romanian minesweepers.
Wreck
The current situation of the wreck is unknown, but is believed to lie at ().