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She is the oldest surviving hull on the Great Lakes, being built in 1896. The pilot house from the Thomas Walters survives as part of the Ashtabula Maritime & Surface Transportation Museum in Ashtabula, Ohio. It's noted that the Walters was the freighter built to replace the SS William C. Moreland, which ran aground on Sawtooth Reef, Lake Superior.
A fleet oil tanker, collided with the Liberian freighter Elna II while passing New Castle, caught fire and exploded. Monroe United States: 30 January 1914 The ocean liner collided with Nantucket in the Atlantic Ocean 50 nautical miles (93 km) off the Delaware Capes and sank with the loss of 41 of the 140 people on board.
Cars exploded and the explosion extend to a store in which had 319 tonnes of aircraft bombs that exploded too. Almost 100 killed and 1500 injured, on July 9. 1944 – An accident with a mail train travelling from Madrid to la Coruña and Vigo in a tunnel in Torre del Bierzo, near León, Spain. 100 killed on January 3.
The lake freighter sank in a storm off Main Duck Island with the loss of eight lives. [37] [38] City of Sheboygan: 1925 Sank in a storm off Amherst Island with the loss of five people. Comet: 1861 A paddlewheeler that sunk in a collision with the schooner Exchange' off Nine Mile Point, with the loss of two lives. Congercoal: 5 November 1917
A fire on a freight ship carrying nearly 3,000 cars was burning out of control Wednesday in the North Sea, and the Dutch coast guard said one crew member had died, others were hurt and it was ...
SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old ship sank.
In 1967, during the vietnam war, the USS Forrestal was floating on the water not too far from the Vietnamese coast. A Zuni rocket from one aircraft flew from into the fuel tank of another aircraft, starting a big fire. Within minutes, the fire became bigger and damaged other planes. More than a hundred men and women lost their lives.
The vital shipping channel that connects Lake Erie to Lake Huron and includes the Detroit River has seen three ships go aground this year. Why do freighters keep getting stuck in Detroit, St ...