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SS Cotopaxi was an Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) Design 1060 bulk carrier built for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) under the World War I emergency shipbuilding program. The ship, launched 15 November 1918, was named after the Cotopaxi stratovolcano of Ecuador .
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In 1985 an unknown shipwreck was found off St Augustine, Florida; in 2020 it was identified as the remains of the SS Cotopaxi. [21] 1941: USS Proteus (AC-9), lost with all 58 persons on board in heavy seas, having departed St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands with a cargo of bauxite on 23 November.
By the late 1400s, the choice of spelling between sz and ss was usually based on the sound's position in the word rather than etymology: sz ( ſz ) tended to be used in word final position: uſz (Middle High German: ûz, German: aus), -nüſz (Middle High German: -nüss(e), German: -nis); ss ( ſſ ) tended to be used when the sound occurred ...
SS Admiral (1907) SS Admiral Sampson; SS Adriatic (1856) SS Aenos (1944) Ajax (1864 ship) SS Alabama; SS Alameda (1883) Alaska Pacific Steamship Company; USAHS Algonquin; PS Alice Dean (1863) SS Alkimos; SS Almeria Lykes (1940) SS Amasa Stone; Amboy (ship) SS America (1939) American Queen; SS Ancon; Ancon (1867 ship) PS Anglia; Anglo-Norman ...
Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church, 1862. Cotopaxi was the subject of important works by painter Frederic Edwin Church in 1855 and 1862. In The Star (1897), a short story by H. G. Wells, Cotopaxi erupts with a tumult of lava that reaches the coastline in a day. In the poem Romance ("Chimborazo, Cotopaxi....
Hotel Pragser Wildsee. On 17, 24 and 26 April 1945 small convoys of buses and trucks began transporting the Prominenten from Dachau toward the SS-Sonderlager Innsbruck.On 27 April the prisoners began the final leg of their journey to a large lake-side hotel at Pragser Wildsee in the Italian Tyrol 12.5 km south west of Niederdorf, then still occupied by three German Luftwaffe generals and their ...
Michael Kovats de Fabriczy (often simply Michael Kovats; Hungarian: Kováts Mihály; 1724 [2] – May 11, 1779) was a Hungarian nobleman and cavalry officer [3] who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, in which he was killed in action.