The SS Antilla was one of three sister ships launched by Germany in 1939. It was intended for trade in the Caribbean and named for the city of Antilla, Cuba. The Antilla was 400 ft (121 m) long and had a beam of 56 ft (17 m). It had two oil-fired high pressure boilers that fed twin turbo generators, This provided current for an electric propulsion motor that drove a single screw and was capable of propelling the vessel at 15 knots (28 km/hr). At the start of the war the SS Antilla was one of four ships allowed by the neutral Dutch government to take shelter on the northwest coast of Aruba. When Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940 Dutch hospitality for German merchant ships ended. The other three vessels had already managed to escape the Allied blockade, but SS Antilla was still there. Rather than let the Dutch take the SS Antilla , its German crew scuttled the vessel, along with help from two rounds from a 37 mm gun on the Netherlands Coast Guard ship HMS Aruba. The ship sank and came to rest on its port side in up to 60 ft (18 m) of water, but with a small part of its starboard side exposed above water. By 1953 storm damage had broken the wreck in two amidships. The wreck is one of the second largest in the Caribbean (The MV Bianca C at 593 ft (181 m) in Grenada is the largest.) The site is popular with scuba divers and snorkelers. Storm damage has continued to break up the wreck, and some divers now consider it unsafe to enter. More information can be found at SS Antilla.