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Flotsam on a beach at Terschelling, Wadden Sea. In maritime law, flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict are terms for various types of property lost or abandoned at sea. The words have specific nautical meanings, with legal consequences in the law of admiralty and marine salvage. [1]
His body was lost at sea, but was recovered in November 2007 and positively identified in December 2008. [293] 27 May 1943 Louis Zamperini: 26 Oahu, Hawaii, U.S. Zamperini was an Olympic distance runner and soldier serving on the B-24 bomber Green Hornet. Due to mechanical difficulties, the bomber crashed into the sea, killing most of the crew ...
It is the last Royal Navy submarine to have been lost at sea. 75 1928 Denmark: København – a five-masted barque used as a naval training vessel until it disappeared with 75 aboard after 22 December. Built by the Danish East Asiatic Company in 1921, it was the world's largest sailing ship at the time, and served primarily for sail training of ...
Lost @ Sea, a 1998 album by The Lads; Lost at Sea, a 2005 album by Bounding Main; Lost at Sea, a 2001 album by Craig's Brother "Lost at Sea", a track on the album Standing Stone (1997) by Paul McCartney "Lost at Sea", a track from the album Clarity (2013) by Zedd featuring Ryan Tedder "Sæglópur" (Icelandic for "lost at sea"), a track in the ...
Out of the 82,000 missing, 75% of the losses are located in the Indo-Pacific, and over 41,000 of the missing are presumed lost at sea (i.e. ship losses, known aircraft water losses, etc.) [141] Animals
The sea, then, might not be misappropriately termed by a rude mariner, Jonah's locker—that is, the place where Jonah was kept or confined. Jonah's locker, in time, might be readily corrupted to Jones's locker; and Davy, as a very common Welsh accompaniment of the equally Welsh name, Jones, added, the true derivation of the phrase having been ...
The search for about 60 migrants lost at sea who departed the Bahamas earlier this month for Florida has been called off, according to U.S. and Bahamian officials.
Ships are usually declared lost and assumed wrecked after a period of disappearance. The disappearance of a ship usually implies all hands lost. Without witnesses or survivors, the mystery surrounding the fate of missing ships has inspired many items of nautical lores and the creation of paranormal zones such as the Bermuda Triangle .