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SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old ship sank.
The list of shipwrecks in 1967 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1967 This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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.
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
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.
Eastern Air Lines Flight 304, a DC-8-21, crashed into Lake Pontchartrain north of New Orleans. [1] All 51 passengers and 7 crew were killed; the cause was a loss of control in turbulence. 25 November 1965 A Trans Caribbean Airways DC-8-54F (N8784R, named Barbara Henry II) was destroyed by fire at Miami International Airport, Florida, United ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Drone footage from this weekend shows a Canadian freighter stuck in the ice on frozen Lake Erie near the shores of Buffalo, New York. The 663-foot ship called the Manitoulin was ...
The hull was built of heavy steel plates double-riveted to steel angle frames. The bow and stern were of a conoidal shape, with the center part of the hull being roughly cigar-shaped. The ship was 308 feet (94 m) long, with a 38-foot (12 m) beam and a 24-foot-deep (7 m) hold .