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The ship sank after sailing roughly 1,300 m (1,400 yd) into her maiden voyage on 10 August 1628. She fell into obscurity after most of her valuable bronze cannons were salvaged in the 17th century, until she was located again in the late 1950s in a busy shipping area in Stockholm harbor. The ship was salvaged with a largely intact hull in 1961.
Wyoming was an American wooden six-masted schooner built and completed in 1909 by the Percy & Small Shipyard in Bath, Maine. [1] With a length of 450 ft (140 m) from jib-boom tip to spanker boom tip, Wyoming was the largest known wooden ship ever built.
Stranded off South Manitou Island. Her carcass was struck by and caused the sinking of the cargo ship Francisco Morazan in 1960. W. C. Kimball: May 1891 sixty-five-foot (20 m) wooden schooner sunk off South Manitou Island; wreck in excellent condition. [27] Westmoreland: 1854 Wreck was discovered in 2010 in Platte Bay, near Traverse City ...
How a 173-year-old law created for wooden ships could complicate rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore ... After the sinking of the ... “The ship owner has a duty to exercise due ...
The PS Lady Elgin was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship that sank in Lake Michigan off the fledgling town of Port Clinton, Illinois, whose geography is now divided between Highland Park and Highwood, Illinois, after she was rammed in a gale by the schooner Augusta in the early hours of September 8, 1860.
Memorial at Capo Passero, 2014. The sinking of the ship F174 took place on the night of December 25–26, 1996, off the coast of Sicily, in the Mediterranean Sea.An old, severely overloaded wooden ship transporting illegal immigrants from India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan to Italy sank 19 nautical miles (22 mi; 35 km) from Portopalo di Capo Passero in Sicily (Italy), under questionable ...
The SS Atlanta was a wooden hulled Great Lakes steamer that sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, United States, after a failed attempt of her being towed to shore ultimately killing 5 out of her 7 crew members on board.
A video posted by VG showed a rescue boat navigating choppy seas and rain in the dark. According to VG, the wooden ship was on its way from the Faroe Islands to Alesund in Norway when the accident ...