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The ship's structure groaned and wracked under the strain. Carpenter Harry McNish noted that the solid oak beams supporting the upper deck were being visibly bent "like a piece of cane". On deck the ship's masts were whipping back and forth as their stepping points on the keel were distorted. Despite these disconcerting signs, Worsley noted ...
List of ships sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy; List of Allied ships lost to Italian surface vessels in the Mediterranean (1940–43) List of wrecked or lost ships of the Ottoman steam navy; List of United States Navy losses in World War II
Date Ship name Deaths 2007 Explorer: 0 1991 Finnpolaris: 0 1977 William Carson: 0 1959 Hans Hedtoft: 95 (all) 1923 Le Raymound: 2+ 1912 Titanic: 1496 1901
near the Dumont d'Urville Station, Terre Adélie, Antarctica 1946 Aircraft: 3 Antarctica PBM Mariner crash [18] Thurston Island, Antarctica 1958 Aircraft: 3 Marguerite Bay plane crash [19] Marguerite Bay, Antarctica 4 survivors 1965 Tractor: 3 Tractor falls into crevasse [20] Milorgknausane nunataks, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica 1979 Aircraft: 3
Its wreck has yet to be found. This is a list of missing ships and wrecks. If it is known that the ship in question sank, then its wreck has not yet been located. Ships are usually declared lost and assumed wrecked after a period of disappearance. The disappearance of a ship usually implies all hands lost.
The term "largest passenger ship" has evolved over time to also include ships by length as supertankers built by the 1970s were over 400 metres (1,300 ft) long. In the modern era the term has gradually fallen out of use in favor of "largest cruise ship" as the industry has shifted to cruising rather than transatlantic ocean travel. [1]
The aims of this campaign were primarily archaeological and historical. People around the world were able to follow the progress of Endurance22 through the daily broadcasts of historian and television presenter Dan Snow. [11] [12] In a remarkable coincidence, the Endurance was finally found a century to the day after Shackleton's burial. [13] [14]
A new 3D scan has revealed previously unseen details of the wreck of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s HMS Endurance, which was found in 2022 – more than a century after the ship sank.