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Shiprock (Navajo: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" or "winged rock" [4]) is a monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet (482 m) above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Its peak elevation is 7,177 feet (2,188 m) above sea level.
The line allows the anchor to be unhooked from an obstruction, such as a rock or another vessel's anchor cable, so preventing raising the anchor in the normal way. [13] anchor chain . Also anchor cable. A chain connecting a ship to an anchor. anchor detail A group of men who handle ground tackle when the ship is anchoring or getting under way ...
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
The search for shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Michigan yielded something scientists weren’t quite expecting: massive craters.. In 2022, researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
At the time of its designation in 2021, the sanctuary included 36 known shipwrecks [3] [5] [6] [4] [7] dating from the 1830s to 1930, [5] [7] including Wisconsin's two oldest known shipwrecks in terms of vessel construction date, [4] [6] the schooners Gallinipper, which was constructed in 1833 and sank in 1851, and Home, which was built in 1843 ...
While exploring a 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden, divers discovered “surprising” cargo and weapons that may have helped repel pirates.
The sinking of the Titanic, illustrated by Willy Stöwer in 1912.. Shipwrecking is an event that causes a shipwreck, such as a ship striking something that causes the ship to sink; the stranding of a ship on rocks, land or shoal; poor maintenance, resulting in a lack of seaworthiness; or the destruction of a ship either intentionally or by violent weather.
The ship had been heading back from the New World to the court of King Philip V of Spain, laden with treasures such as chests of emeralds and some 200 tons of gold coins.