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SS Cotopaxi was an Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) Design 1060 bulk carrier built for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) under the World War I emergency shipbuilding program. The ship, launched 15 November 1918, was named after the Cotopaxi stratovolcano of Ecuador .
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An old shipwreck, believed to be the World War I vessel the SS Tobol, has been uncovered off the northeast coast of Scotland, solving what discoverers say is a "107-year-old maritime mystery."
A ship that went missing in the Bermuda Triangle almost 100 years ago turned up off the coast of Florida. About 35 years ago, divers came across a shipwreck off the coast of St. Augustine they ...
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 ...
Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church, 1862. Cotopaxi was the subject of important works by painter Frederic Edwin Church in 1855 and 1862. In The Star (1897), a short story by H. G. Wells, Cotopaxi erupts with a tumult of lava that reaches the coastline in a day. In the poem Romance ("Chimborazo, Cotopaxi....
The next day, at 4:20 a.m., the ship’s chief engineer, Fred Gilbert, sounded the alarm that the ship was sinking, and the crew, afraid for their lives, abandoned the ship, getting off — and to ...
A construction crew was working on a drainage improvement project in St. Augustine, which is Florida’s oldest city, in early October when workers unearthed a wooden shipwreck, archaeologists said.