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Sign of the works on the demolition of the Polcevera Viaduct and the construction of the bridge for Genoa. The Genoa Saint George Bridge [1] (Italian: Viadotto Genova-San Giorgio) [2] is a motorway viaduct that crosses the Polcevera river and the districts of Sampierdarena and Cornigliano, in the city of Genoa. It was designed by architect ...
14 September — storm damaged brig San Giorgio drifted onto the Crim Rocks, then cleared and partially sank on her side with her crew rescued by the schooner Galway. San Giorgio drifted out to sea and was found 60 miles (97 km) offshore. She was towed back to Scilly by a schooner and fifteen pilot-cutters with all her cargo of olive oil and ...
On 30 June 2014 the Italian Government endorsed Costa's decision to have the vessel dismantled at Genoa by Italian companies Saipem, Mariotti and San Giorgio. [181] [182] On 1 February 2014 a Spanish diver working on the Costa Concordia wreck died after cutting his leg on a sheet of metal. He was brought to the surface alive by a fellow diver ...
The National Transportation Safety Board recovered the ship's data recorder and will construct a timeline of events leading up to the crash.
Dubbed the "holy grail" of shipwrecks, the San Jose was owned by the Spanish crown when it was sunk by the British navy near Cartagena in 1708. Only a handful of its 600-strong crew survived. Only ...
Four bodies have been recovered from the underwater wreckage while two remain missing. A memorial for the victims near the south end of the bridge has grown in recent weeks. It now includes six ...
The Italian cruiser San Giorgio was the name ship of her class of two armored cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the first decade of the 20th century. Commissioned in 1910, the ship was badly damaged when she ran aground before the start of the Italo-Turkish War in 1911, although she was repaired before its end.
A US salvage consortium called Glocca Morra claimed to have located the San Jose in 1981, but the Colombian government has disputed this, claiming it independently found the galleon with a team of ...