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The sinking of the Titanic, illustrated by Willy Stöwer in 1912.. Shipwrecking is an event that causes a shipwreck, such as a ship striking something that causes the ship to sink; the stranding of a ship on rocks, land or shoal; poor maintenance, resulting in a lack of seaworthiness; or the destruction of a ship either intentionally or by violent weather.
Aloysius Anthony Kelly, [1] popularly known as Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly (May 11, 1893 [2] [3] [4] [some accounts say 1885] [5] – October 11, 1952 [1] [6]), was a pole sitter who achieved fame in the 1920s and 1930s, sitting for days at a time on elevated perches throughout the United States.
The exact cause of the cutter's disappearance remains a mystery. 90 1837 United States: Home – On 7 October the packet ship struck a sandbar off New Jersey. Unaware of the extent of the damage, her captain continued toward Charleston, South Carolina when she encountered the 1837 Racer's Storm.
A sonar image of the shipwreck of the Soviet Navy ship Virsaitis in Estonian waters Johan Christian Dahl: Shipwreck on the Coast of Norway, 1832 Bow of RMS Titanic, first discovered in 1985 Wreck of Costa Concordia. A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water ...
List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1987 Ship State Description Pacific Star United States The 40-foot (12.2 m) fishing vessel sank with the loss of one crew member after a rogue wave struck her in the North Pacific Ocean approximately 60 nautical miles (110 km; 69 mi) south of Agattu in the Near Islands in the western Aleutian Islands.
Disappointingly for ship scholars and historians of technology, there are few indications of how the planks of Sinop D are held together. There are no mortise and tenon fastenings and no sewing. Shipwreck D may be one of the earliest lateen-rigged ships to be studied by archaeologists. The angle of the mast and the lack of fittings on it ...
List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1895 Ship State Description Antoinette Canada After losing parts of her masts in the Bristol Channel near Lundy on 1 January during a voyage from Newport, Wales, to Santos, Brazil, with a cargo of coal, the barque broke her tow and drifted onto the Doom Bar in the Camel estuary, where she was wrecked.
This is a list of historical ship types, which includes any classification of ship that has ever been used, excluding smaller vessels considered to be boats. The classifications are not all mutually exclusive; a vessel may be both a full-rigged ship by description, and a collier or frigate by function. A two-masted schooner Aircraft Carrier