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"On the night of June 6, 1853, the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon ran aground 500 feet off shore of the central California coast. The area is now called Pigeon Point in her honor. The Carrier Pigeon was a state-of-the art, 19th Century clipper ship. She was 175 feet long with a narrow, 34 foot beam and rated at about 845 tons burden.
A Canaanite shipwreck dating from the Late Bronze Age was found in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in June 2024, 90 km (56 mi) off the shoreline of Israel.According to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the ship belonged to ancient Canaanite merchants and was the oldest shipwreck to be discovered in deep water as of June 2024.
Built in 1888 in Philadelphia, this passenger ship wrecked at the entrance to Humboldt Bay. One person died in the first boat lowered, the rest of the 154 people on board waited for rescue by the life-saving station and were saved. The ship rotted where it came aground. [3] Her wreck could be seen until at least the early 1970s.
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Experts said the ship appears to have wrecked off the coast of Israel during a bad storm. Diver spots something in ocean — it was a shipwreck of rare cargo from 1,800 years ago Skip to main content
The wooden ship sank about 90 kilometers (55 miles) off Israel's Mediterranean coast and was discovered at a depth of 1,800 meters (1.1 miles) by Energean, a natural gas company which operates a ...
The wreck was discovered in 2007 off the coast of Catalina Island. Scipion French Navy: October 1782: A French ship that took part in the blockade against Cornwallis and thus was instrumental in the American Revolutionary War; sunk in a battle against the British fleet. Found and positively identified by Tracy Bowden.
Shipwrecks of the California coast, in the Pacific Ocean; Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S. Shipwrecks on the National Register of ...