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List of shipwrecks: 25 May 2024 Ship State Description Atlantis: Flag unknown The 80-foot (24 m) superyacht sank 2 miles (3.2 km) off St. Augustine, Florida after striking a dredging pipe piling. [67] LCM 8558 United States Army: The Mark 8 LCM broke loose from a temporary pier in Gaza in heavy seas and washed ashore near Ashkelon, Israel. [68 ...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) -A Royal New Zealand Navy vessel ran aground and sank off Samoa but all 75 crew and passengers on board were safe, the New Zealand Defence Force said in a statement on Sunday.
On October 2 a ferry capsized and sank in Lake Kivu only 100 meters from its destination. 88 of the 276 people on board were killed. 88 2024 DR Congo: HB la Saintet – On June 12, the ship HB la Saintet experienced engine failure and sank in the Kasai River, a tributary of the Congo River. 86 people of the 271 aboard were confirmed dead. 86 2023
Ansett New Zealand Flight 703: air accident 9 Jun 1995: Tararua Range, near Palmerston North: 4 2023 Auckland Anniversary Weekend floods: flood 27 Jan 2023 – 2 Feb 2023: upper North Island 3 1968 Inangahua earthquake: earthquake 24 May 1968: near Inangahua Junction: 3 2023 Auckland shooting: shooting 20 Jul 2023: Auckland CBD: 2 1966 Air New ...
Those on board have since returned to New Zealand by plane. The specialist dive and hydrographic vessel had been in service for New Zealand since 2019, but was 20 years old and had previously belonged to Norway. The military said the ship, purchased for $100 million NZ dollars ($61 million), was not covered by replacement insurance.
1941 – Attack on Pearl Harbor, sinking USS Arizona (BB-39) and several other ships; extensive fires generated aboard and around ships; 1942 – Normandie in New York City, ship capsized and sank at pier; 1944 – Bombay Explosion (1944) — Fort Stikine docked in Bombay, India underwent a fire which caused two explosions and set fire to the ...
The battleship was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese bombed the naval base in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941. The attack launched the United States into World War II. Upton died just shortly after the ...
On Dec. 7, Auld was aboard the ship when Japanese pilots attacked Pearl Harbor. During the attack, the USS Oklahoma took multiple torpedo hits and capsized just 12 minutes after it was first hit ...