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In June of 1718, Queen Anne's Revenge — the ship of famous pirate Blackbeard — ran aground on a sandbar at Beaufort Inlet off the coast of North Carolina and lost until rediscovered in 1996. On November 21, 1996 Intersal Inc., while working under permit from the state of North Carolina, discovered the wrecksite.
Following impact with an iceberg, the ship split in two and sank to a depth of more than 2 miles below the surface. Deep in the Atlantic, the bow of the ship sank deep into the clay at the bottom of the ocean, scattering artefacts from dishes, machinery, tiles, and even the remains of passengers throughout miles of seabed.
Carleton College (/ ˈ k ɑːr l t ɪ n / KARL-tin) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. [7] Founded in 1866, the 200-acre (81 ha) main campus is between Northfield and the approximately 800-acre (320 ha) Cowling Arboretum , which became part of the campus in the 1920s.
Fort site, the North Bay shipwreck site of the HMS Haldiman (a 150-ton British snow schooner built in 1771), the Carleton Island Provincial Marine Wharf, the fort military burial ground and the ...
Skinner Memorial Chapel is a chapel and historic building on the campus of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The chapel was built in 1916, fifty years after Carleton College was founded, and was financed by a gift from Emily Willey Skinner.
In 1995 Carleton College renamed its college library the Laurence McKinley Gould Library in his honor. The R/V Laurence M. Gould, a 76-m-long ice-strengthened research ship built in 1997 for the National Science Foundation and designed for year-round polar operations, is named in his honor. [5]
Carleton Island Dockyard: Laid down: October 1779: Launched: 10 May 1780: Fate: 31 October 1780 sank in Lake Ontario during a storm: Status: Shipwreck discovered in June, 2008 at more than 500 ft (150 m) depth: General characteristics; Class and type: Sixth rate: Tons burthen: 226 tons [1] Length: 80 ft (24 m) Beam: 25 ft (7.6 m) Sail plan: Two ...
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