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Coastal trading vessels, also known as coasters or skoots, [1] are shallow-hulled [citation needed] merchant ships used for transporting cargo along a coastline. Their shallow hulls mean that they can get through reefs where deeper-hulled seagoing ships usually cannot (26-28 feet), but as a result they are not optimized for the large waves ...
"On the night of June 6, 1853, the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon ran aground 500 feet off shore of the central California coast. The area is now called Pigeon Point in her honor. The Carrier Pigeon was a state-of-the art, 19th Century clipper ship. She was 175 feet long with a narrow, 34 foot beam and rated at about 845 tons burden.
Of the 24 steam cargo concrete vessels, 17 were converted by the Army into floating storehouses, 5 were used by the Army as training ships and 2 found an honorable end when sunk to form part of the breakwater protecting the American landing in Normandy at Omaha beach. A. D. Kahn, "Concrete Ship and Barge Program, 1941-1944"
The waves rapidly broke the freighter which spilled its load of coal on the seafloor and sank. [3] [6 4] Corinthian ( United States), 11 June 1906. This two-masted coastal schooner was wrecked with the loss of two of her twelve-man crew. While other sources have reported the loss of the entire crew, the Annual Report of the United States Life ...
Coastwise and inter-island cargo ships, sometimes known as coastal freighters. Small Boat Company The small boat company provided regular coastal and island service to bases in the Aleutian and Pacific Islands to supply food and equipment transported by small coastal and inter-island vessels and water craft that were under 200 feet or under ...
[3] The first four freighters were delivered in July 1918 and another four were delivered before the war ended. [1] Delivered in November 1921, SS West Chopaka was the 35th and final ship built for the US Shipping Board at San Pedro. In total, the contracts cost $72 million ($1.23 billion today) for around 320,000 DWT of cargo freighters. [4]
Two sunken vessels from WWII were recently found off the coast of North Carolina. Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discovered the Nazi U-boat 576 and the ...
List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1970 Ship State Description Badger State United States The cargo ship sank in the North Pacific Ocean ten days after she was abandoned after her cargo of bombs and other munitions broke loose and started to explode during a voyage from Bremerton, Washington, to Da Nang, South Vietnam.