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Highlander Sea: 1924 Port Huron, Michigan: Sail training/education and tourism vessel; former pilot boat 2 masted gaff [41] Hindu: 1925 Key West, Florida: Tourism/charter vessel in Key West in the winters and Provincetown, Massachusetts in the summers. Designed as a half-scale model of a Grand Banks fishing schooner. 2 masted gaff [42] Isaac H ...
Volo was a 500-ton barque stranded in the Bushman River in South Africa.. Volo had been built at Arendal, Norway in the 1880s and was homeported there. She undertook her final voyage under Captain Olsen, sailing from Goteburg, Sweden, carrying a cargo of Baltic pine timber to Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa.
SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old ship sank.
Its large size (largest in the world of its type at the time of construction) created design challenges. [2]In order to create an economically feasible vessel of this size, the vessel must be designed with a high deadweight tonnage and a relatively high sailing speed to allow large quantities of rock, with densities ranging from 1.4–1.8 metric tons (1.4–1.8 long tons; 1.5–2.0 short tons ...
The MY Steve Irwin is a 59-metre (194 ft) motor vessel that previously was the flagship of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and was used in their direct action campaigns against whaling and against illegal fisheries activities.
USS Dubuque was the second ship named after Dubuque, Iowa on the Mississippi River and her founder, Julien Dubuque - a French Canadian explorer. USS Dubuque was commissioned on 1 September 1967 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia .
The two ships proceeded to hose down the occupants of the protest vessel with cold sea water to discourage them from interfering and disabled its engines by shooting seawater down the smokestack into the engine room, making her dead in the water in rough seas, and thereby ending the morning-long cat-and-mouse game nearly 40 miles east of Cape ...
Based largely on testimony from Bethune and former Captain of the Sea Shepherd boat Bob Barker, Chuck Swift, Ady Gil successfully sued Sea Shepherd for the deliberate abandonment of his vessel in Antarctica. In siding with Mr. Gil, the arbitrator awarded him compensatory damages of $500,000 plus interest from 8 January 2010 forward.