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Paula was a barque built in 1876 in Hammelwarden, Germany. She participated in a Deutsche Seewarte [ de ] experiment investigating ocean currents by means of distributing messages in bottles . A bottle dropped by Paula in the Indian Ocean in 1886 was discovered in January 2018 north of Wedge Island , Western Australia .
Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen [a] [b] or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen [c] [d] (20 September [O.S. 9 September] 1778 – 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1852) was a Russian cartographer, explorer, and naval officer of Baltic German descent, who attained the rank of admiral.
Germany entered the field with the first German Antarctic Expedition, 1901–03, led by Erich von Drygalski in the ship Gauss. Drygalski discovered land south of the Kerguelen Islands, but his ship became trapped in the ice at 66°7'S 89°38'E, while still 85 km (46 nautical miles (nmi) from the land.
The Ship of Souls was a 1925 western novel by Emerson Hough, published after his death. It included 16 illustrations by WHD Koerner . [ 1 ] It was made into a 1925 silent 3-D film of the same name, The Ship of Souls .
The Klabautermann (also spelt Klaboterman, Klabotermann, [5] Kalfatermann [6]), sometimes even referred to by the name "kobold" [6] is a creature from the beliefs of fishermen and sailors of Germany's north coast, the Low Countries (Netherlands, etc.) in the North Sea and the Baltic countries as well.
Felix Nikolaus Alexander Georg Graf [1] von Luckner (9 June 1881, Dresden – 13 April 1966, Malmö), sometimes called Count Luckner in English, was a German nobleman, naval officer, author, and sailor who earned the epithet Der Seeteufel (the Sea Devil), and his crew that of Die Piraten des Kaisers (the Emperor's Pirates), for his exploits in command of the sailing commerce raider SMS ...
The ship zigzagged between Africa and South America and took echo soundings of the South Atlantic between 20° North and 60° South. In January 1926 the Strait of Magellan was transited; in March the same year a seamount was found and named Meteor Bank ( 48°16′S 08°16′E / 48.267°S 8.267°E / -48.267; 8
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II is a 2004 non-fiction book by Robert Kurson recounting of the discovery of a World War II German U-boat 60 miles (97 km) off the coast of New Jersey, United States in 1991, exploration dives, and its eventual identification as U-869 lost on 11 February 1945.