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Old ships code-named "Corn cobs" were sunk to form a protective reef for the Mulberry harbours at Arromanches and Omaha Beach for the Normandy landings. The sheltered waters created by these scuttled ships were called "Gooseberries" and protected the harbours so transport ships could unload without being hampered by waves.
The Japanese pilots responsible for the Panay attack would bomb the British ship SS Wantung on the same afternoon. [5] Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, who had founded a right-wing secret society in Japan and targeted the Panay as it sank, had also deliberately shelled the British vessels SS Scarab and HMS Cricket beforehand.
A Kingston valve is a type of valve fitted in the bottom of a ship's plating [1] that connects the sea to the ship's piping and storage tanks. A Kingston valve is a type of seacock . [ 1 ] It is arranged so that, under normal operating conditions, sea pressure keeps the valve closed. [ 2 ]
After the ship sank just before 5 a.m. local time, 15 people, including a 1-year-old, were pulled from the water. Some were rescued from a life raft by the crew of a ship docked nearby.
A ship was deliberately sunk off the coast of Florida on Tuesday, 18 April, to create an artificial reef. Officials from the Okaloosa County Coastal Resource team worked with Destin-Fort Walton ...
The cargo ship had been carrying Christmas supplies to Hawaii. Due to the attack on Pearl Harbor , she was rerouted to Portland, Oregon . During the ensuing blackout on the west coast, she ran aground at Clatsop Beach, Oregon ( 45°30′N 122°45′W / 45.500°N 122.750°W / 45.500; -122.750 ) and was wrecked
The Rouse Simmons was a three-masted schooner famous for having sunk in a violent storm on Lake Michigan in 1912. The ship was bound for Chicago with a cargo of Christmas trees when it foundered off Two Rivers, Wisconsin, killing all on board.
HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. [1] The vessel is best known for its role in hunting down the Bounty mutineers in 1790, which remains one of the best-known stories in the history of seafaring. [2]