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Fort Pond Bay was first listed by name in a 1655 map published in 1680 by John Scott which makes note of a Montaukett Native-American fort on its banks. Early settlers in the area raised cattle and sheep on the bluffs above the bay. During the American Revolutionary War during the Siege of Boston British warships sailed into the bay in 1775 ...
In World War II, with German U-boats threatening the East Coast and Long Island, Montauk was again considered a likely invasion point. The US Army upgraded Fort Hero, and renamed it Camp Hero in 1942. The Navy also acquired land in the area, including Fort Pond Bay and Montauk Manor. They built docks, seaplane hangars, barracks, and other ...
The hull, foundering beneath the waves, was first secured near Montauk Point by legendary Montauk fisherman Captain Frank Mundus on his vessel Cricket II and Carl Forsberg, founder of the Viking Fleet, the largest fishing fleet in Montauk, on his Viking V, and was later transferred to the Coast Guard picket boat, which towed it into Lake Montauk.
In an extremely rare pair of events, a second man drowned offshore of a Hilton Head Island beach Friday. Prior to Friday, there had only been three drownings since 2017. Leonard Schenz, 73, of ...
Police say the 15-year-old’s death wasn’t reported until six days after it happened.
A woman who was filmed after she fell through the ice on a lake in Michigan is responding to body-shaming comments after her harrowing rescue video went viral.
There were four people on board the helicopter. The pilot plus one passenger drowned, while the mechanic and the country's secretary of state for police survived the crash. The latter was rescued after drifting in the sea throughout the night for some 12 hours, and was found and picked up by a small boat the next morning [110] 24 December
Police in Illinois have released dramatic bodycam footage showing the rescue of a nine-year-old boy from a frozen pond. The boy fell through the ice when he tried to retrieve his football, and a ...