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Location of Sandusky Bay (darker blue extending southwest from Lake Erie). Sandusky Bay is a bay on Lake Erie in northern Ohio, formed at the mouth of the Sandusky River.It was identified as Lac Sandouské on a 1718 French map, with early variations recorded that suggest the name was derived from Native American languages.
Lake Okeechobee (US: / oʊ k i ˈ tʃ oʊ b i / oh-kee-CHOH-bee) [1] is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. [2] It is the eighth-largest natural freshwater lake among the 50 states of the United States and the second-largest natural freshwater lake contained entirely within the contiguous 48 states, after Lake Michigan.
Sunderland (/ ˈ s ʌ n d ər l ə n d / ⓘ) is a port city [a] in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a port at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea, approximately 10 miles (16 km) south-east of Newcastle upon Tyne. The built-up area had a population of 168,277 at the 2021 census, making it the second largest settlement in North East ...
By 1840 the town had 76 shipyards and between 1820 and 1850 the number of ships being built on the Wear increased fivefold. From 1846 to 1854 almost a third of the UK's ships were built in Sunderland, and in 1850 the Sunderland Herald proclaimed the town to be the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. [70]
A sidewheel steamer built by the Russian-American Company, completed 4,000 miles (6,400 km) before being abandoned in St. Michael near the entrance of the Yukon River. Portland: 12 November 1910 A steamship which struck the rocks off Cordova. [10] Princess Kathleen Canada: 7 September 1952 A passenger steamer, sunk near Point Lena.
The Lofthus (also known as the Cashmere) is a Norwegian shipwreck (which sank in 1898) near Boynton Beach, Florida, United States. Built in 1868 in Sunderland, England by T.R. Oswald , the 222-foot iron-hulled vessel was originally christened Cashmere and rigged as a three masted barque. [ 1 ]
The following is a list of lakes in Ohio. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources , there are approximately 50,000 lakes and small ponds, with a total surface area of 200,000 acres, and among these there are 2,200 lakes of 5 acres (2.0 ha) or greater with a total surface area of 134,000 acres. [ 1 ]
1634 – Bishop Morton's Charter created Sunderland's first Mayor and Corporation. [1] West View of the Cast Iron Bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland. 1698 – Formation of Sunderland Company of Glassmakers; 1669 – Letters patent permitted the erection of a pier and lighthouse. [1] 1719 – Sunderland Parish's Holy Trinity Church opened