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A fleet oil tanker, collided with the Liberian freighter Elna II while passing New Castle, caught fire and exploded. Monroe United States: 30 January 1914 The ocean liner collided with Nantucket in the Atlantic Ocean 50 nautical miles (93 km) off the Delaware Capes and sank with the loss of 41 of the 140 people on board.
The decommissioned Auk-class minesweeper was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean by United States Pacific Fleet forces in the winter of 1967. Turisten Norway: The lake steamer was scuttled in the lake Femsjøen, Norway. The wreck was raised in 1997 and restored, work being completed in 2009. [133]
She is the oldest surviving hull on the Great Lakes, being built in 1896. The pilot house from the Thomas Walters survives as part of the Ashtabula Maritime & Surface Transportation Museum in Ashtabula, Ohio. It's noted that the Walters was the freighter built to replace the SS William C. Moreland, which ran aground on Sawtooth Reef, Lake Superior.
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The lake freighter sank in a storm off Main Duck Island with the loss of eight lives. [37] [38] City of Sheboygan: 1925 Sank in a storm off Amherst Island with the loss of five people. Comet: 1861 A paddlewheeler that sunk in a collision with the schooner Exchange' off Nine Mile Point, with the loss of two lives. Congercoal: 5 November 1917
The vital shipping channel that connects Lake Erie to Lake Huron and includes the Detroit River has seen three ships go aground this year. Why do freighters keep getting stuck in Detroit, St ...
1967 – Apollo 1 burned during ground tests at Cape Canaveral January 27, 3 astronauts died. 1980 – Saudia Flight 163 caught fire in its cargo bay and was destroyed on the runway at Riyadh killing all on board. 1983 – Air Canada Flight 797 suffered a fire near the rear lavatory, filling the plane with smoke.
The SS Benjamin Noble was a steel hulled package freighter package freighter built in 1909, that went down with all hands in 1914, in mid-lake off Knife River, Minnesota. Her wreck was found half buried in 2004, in 365-feet of water. [9] [10] 6: Big Bay Sloop shipwreck (sloop) Big Bay Sloop shipwreck (sloop) January 14, 2009