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List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1960 Ship State Description Carsten Witt West Germany: The cargo ship sank between Bornholm, Denmark and Sweden. Tanker British Sportsman ( United Kingdom) reported to be attempting to rescue survivors. [12] Filleigh United Kingdom: The cargo ship collided with a Belgian ship in the Scheldt and ran aground. [12 ...
12 March 1920 A former pleasure cruiser/patrol craft that was sunk by ice off Detroit. Cyprus United States: 11 October 1907 The lake freighter sank during a storm on Lake Superior. The ship went down in 460 feet (140 m) of water about 7 nautical miles (13 km) north of Deer Park in Luce County. All but one of the 23 members of the crew perished.
According to a BBC News report in 1970, [12] it was determined that if the wreck of Richard Montgomery exploded, it would throw a 300 metres (980 feet)-wide column of water and debris nearly 3,000 metres (9,800 feet) into the air and generate a wave 5 metres (16 feet) high.
Staff Sergeant Elvis Presley was honorably discharged from active service in the United States Army, nearly two years after being drafted into the service on March 24, 1958. [12] After departing from Fort Dix in New Jersey, Presley remained in the U.S. Army reserve for four additional years until completing his military obligations. [13]
SS Ithaka is a wrecked steam freighter and landmark on the coast of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba.Originally built as the lake freighter Frank A. Augsbury for the Canadian George Hall Coal & Shipping Corporation in 1922, she went on to sail for a variety of different owners in different locations being renamed to Granby in 1927, Parita II in 1948, Valbruna in 1951, Lawrencecliffe Hall in ...
List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1963 Ship State Description Mist United States: The 20-gross register ton, 41.8-foot (12.7 m) fishing vessel sank off Spruce Island in the Kodiak Archipelago near Kodiak, Alaska. [20]
On March 13, 1961, Dominator was en route to Los Angeles from Vancouver with a cargo of wheat and beef when she ran aground off Palos Verdes, California. [6] For two days, the Coast Guard and tugboats attempted to refloat her, but heavy seas and high winds only forced her higher onto the rocks. After two days the crew abandoned ship.
Corona United States, 1 March 1907. Built in 1888 in Philadelphia, this passenger ship wrecked at the entrance to Humboldt Bay. One person died in the first boat lowered, the rest of the 154 people on board waited for rescue by the life-saving station and were saved. The ship rotted where it came aground. [3]