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Pages in category "Shipwrecks of Hawaii" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. USS Arizona;
The national memorial was designed by Honolulu architect Alfred Preis, who was detained at Sand Island at the start of the war as an enemy of the country, because of his Austrian birth. [10] The United States Navy specified the memorial be in the form of a bridge floating above the ship and accommodating 200 people. [citation needed]
In 2008 a shipwreck of a 19th-century whaling ship was found near Shark island. [10] The wreck was identified in 2011 as the whaling sailing ship Two Brothers. The ship wrecked the night of February 11, 1823, under the command of Captain George Pollard Jr. (of Essex fame). The crew was able to be rescued by another whaling ship they were on the ...
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The West Loch Disaster was a maritime accident during World War II at Pearl Harbor U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii. The incident, which occurred just after 3 p.m. on Sunday, 21 May 1944, began following an explosion in a staging area for Landing Ships, Tank (LSTs) and other amphibious assault ships in West Loch.
A cargo ship that was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-9 800 miles (1,300 km) northeast of Honolulu, Hawaii. [4] USS Lamson United States Navy: 2 July 1946 A Mahan-class destroyer that sank at Bikini Atoll after sustaining damage as a target in the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests. USS Leftwich United States Navy: 1 August 2003
A decade after the skeletal remains of a young girl were found in Honolulu, Hawaii, DNA has helped identify the missing child as Mary Sue Fink. Fink was born on April 29, 1959, more than 65 years ...
It was a typical Wednesday evening for Noland Keaulana, who was fixing his truck at his grandparents’ house when he received an alert on his phone about a 17-year-old missing off the Honolulu coast.