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Albatross, originally named Albatros, later Alk, was a sailing ship that became famous when she sank in 1961 with a group of American teenagers on board. The events were the basis for 1996 film White Squall .
HMS Albatross (1795) – a 16-gun Albatross-class brig-sloop launched in 1795 and sold in 1807. [2] HMS Albatross (1826) – a survey schooner purchased in 1826 and sold in 1833. [3] HMS Albatross (1842) – a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1842 and broken up in 1860. [4] HMS Albatross – to have been a wood screw sloop. She was ordered in 1862 ...
USS Albatross was a screw steamer rigged as a three-masted schooner acquired by the Union Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War.She was outfitted as a gunboat with heavy guns and used in the Union blockade of the waterways of the Confederate States of America.
Deborah Scaling was born January 21, 1958, in Throckmorton, Texas.She took up sailing at an early age and began working as a crew member on yachts. In 1981, she became the first American woman to complete the Whitbread Round the World Race, working as a cook on the South African Xargo.
Working schooner providing tours for up to 150 passengers. 3 masted topsail schooner [12] American Spirit: 1991 Washington, D.C. Education and excursion vessel 2 masted gaff [3] Amistad: 2000 New Haven, Connecticut: Education vessel 2 masted gaff, square topsail [13] Anne (formerly Tantra Schooner) 1978 Privately owned by Reid Stowe: 2 masted gaff
Laysan albatross have a wingspan well over 6 feet and nest on the grassy areas of low, flat islands, according to the National Audubon Society. They have a population of more than 1 million but ...
The second USS Albatross, often seen as USFC Albatross in scientific literature citations, [1] was an iron-hulled, twin-screw steamship in the United States Navy and reputedly the first research ship ever built especially for marine research.
Wisdom, the legendary Laysan albatross or mōlī, stands at center over her recently laid egg with other seabirds around the ground nest on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Nov. 27, 2024.