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This is a list of missing ships and wrecks. ... Possible or Last Known Location HMS: Sickle: 1944: probably sunk in Antikythera Channel [40] Unterseeboot: UB-3: 1915:
The earliest tales of a lost Spanish galleon appeared shortly after the Colorado River flood of 1862. Colonel Albert S. Evans reported seeing such a ship in 1863. In the Los Angeles Daily News of August 1870, the ship was described as a half-buried hulk in a drying alkali marsh or saline lake, west of Dos Palmas, California, and 40 miles north of Yuma, Arizona.
[10] [11] Spence has salvaged over $50 million in valuable artifacts [12] and was responsible, through his archival research, for the location of the wrecks of the side-paddle-wheel steamers Republic [13] and Central America. [14] [15] Captain Robert MacKinnon (b. 1950, Canadian). Known for finding the wreck of the Auguste in 1977.
Partial list of giant squid specimens on public display as of 2014 (from Guerra & Segonzac, 2014:118–119) Institution Location Country Type Specimen(s) American Museum of Natural History: New York City, New York: United States: national museum: 1 female Auckland University of Technology: Auckland, North Island: New Zealand: private: 1 female ...
Articles relating to tall tales, stories with unbelievable elements, related as if they were true and factual. Some tall tales are exaggerations of actual events, for example fish stories ("the fish that got away") such as, "That fish was so big, why I tell ya', it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!" Other tall tales are completely ...
She was carrying a valuable cargo of spices, indigo, drugs, textiles, pepper, diamonds and ″Jewish Treasure of Pearl″ [42] More of the wreck was uncovered, following storms, in 2018. [43] In 2018 divers found seven cannon and an anchor thought to be from the wreck.
The USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed on USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and commemorates the events of that day. The attack on Pearl Harbor led to the United States' involvement in World War II.
She further discusses a similar tale, that of the submergence of the kingdom of Helig ap Glanawg in the Conwy estuary. As with Cantre'r Gwaelod, there are tales of remains being seen of the sunken kingdom . Bromwich believes that the two stories influenced each other, and that "The widespread parallels to this inundation theme would suggest ...