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The Struma disaster was the sinking on 24 February 1942 of a ship, MV Struma, which had been trying to take nearly 800 Jewish refugees from the Axis member Romania to Mandatory Palestine. She was a small iron-hulled ship of only 240 GRT and had been built in 1867 as a steam-powered schooner [ 3 ] but had recently been re-engined with an ...
"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.
Paul Kessler was a Jewish American man who died at the age of 69 after being fatally injured in an altercation on November 5, 2023, between dueling pro-Israel and pro-Palestine demonstrations in Thousand Oaks, California, United States. [1]
The discovery could become "one of the top five underwater strikes of all time."
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
Shipwrecks of the California coast, in the Pacific Ocean; Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S. Shipwrecks on the National Register of ...
The S.S. Point Reyes, long ago abandoned at the edge of Tomales Bay, has been loved and abused by decades of visitors. And its days appear to be numbered.
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.