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AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
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 ...
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.
Flotsam on a beach at Terschelling, Wadden Sea. In maritime law, flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict are terms for various types of property lost or abandoned at sea. The words have specific nautical meanings, with legal consequences in the law of admiralty and marine salvage. [1]
The ship is buried under Short Sands Beach and resurfaces when weather events cause powerful tides to draw sand from the shore. Visitors to York Short Sands Beach in Maine can catch a glimpse of a ...
The search for shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Michigan yielded something scientists weren’t quite expecting: massive craters.. In 2022, researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
The sunken ship, known as the Pin Wreck, was first discovered off the coast of St Albans Head in 1990. It gained its name because of the hundreds of metal bolts which lay around it.
Shipwreck (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe; Shipwreck, a 1994 album by Chris Connelly; Shipwreck, an episode of the anime anthology series Manga Fairy Tales of the World "Shipwreck!", an episode of the anime series The Little Prince "Shipwreck", a song by Your Memorial from the album Redirect