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The Pride of Baltimore was a reproduction of a typical early 19th-century "Baltimore clipper" topsail schooner, commissioned to represent Baltimore, Maryland. This was a style of vessel made famous by its success as a privateer commerce raider, a small warship in the War of 1812 (1812–1815) against British merchant shipping and the world-wide ...
May 1986 – A microburst squall with wind speeds of 80 mph (130 km/h) is responsible for capsizing and sinking the Pride of Baltimore in the Caribbean Sea, about 250 mi (400 km) north of Puerto Rico. The ship took the lives of her captain and three of her other 11 crew members. [6]
List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1986 Ship State Description Camelot United States: The 40-foot (12.2 m) double-ended troller departed Sitka, Alaska, with two people and a golden retriever aboard to fish in the local area and was never heard from again. No trace of her or her occupants was ever found. [1]
BALTIMORE — Denise Sharp is a go-to historian for her extended family, and her knowledge of the Sharp and Doerer clans of greater Baltimore is encyclopedic. But one question lingered in her mind ...
In May 1986, the Pride of Baltimore, a modern 137-foot (42 m) schooner, was reportedly struck by a white squall. The 121-ton vessel sank about 240 miles (390 km) north of Puerto Rico, casting the surviving crew members adrift for five days. The Toro, a Norwegian freighter, picked them up at 2:30 a.m. May 19, 1986. An eyewitness account ...
1986 Black Sea incident; ... Sinking of Chian-der 3; Australian Army ship Crusader (AV 2767) F. ... Pride of Baltimore; S. USS Secota; T. Tanker war; Y.
The Tahiti sinking, 17 August 1930 SS The Emerald: 1957 Santa Rosa (1958–1990) Diamond Island (1990–1992) Regent Rainbow (1992–1996) The Emerald (1996–2012) Scrapped at Alang, India in 2012 The Emerald in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1999 SS Uganda (1952) 1952 Triton (1986) Wrecked in Kaohsiung, Taiwan during Typhoon Wayne on ...
Parrott draws parallels to the sudden losses of the Marques (1984) and the original Pride of Baltimore (1986), which were similarly affected by large sail areas; in the case of the Marques, this was likewise the result of refittings over the years of her existence.