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Captain James Newman-Newman (1767–1811) of the British Royal Navy was an officer who served in numerous actions with distinction during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars before his death in the wreck of his ship of the line HMS Hero, which was lost with two other battleships off the Northern European coast during a storm in December 1811.
The ship was laid down by the Charleston Navy Yard on 8 June 1943; launched on 9 August 1943; sponsored by Mrs. J. B. Newman, mother of L. G. Newman AD3; and commissioned on 26 November 1943. Following shakedown off Bermuda, Newman was assigned transatlantic escort duty. Between 11 February and 29 June 1944, she crossed the ocean six times.
A father and daughter who were out on a fishing adventure discovered a previously unknown shipwreck with ties to the Great Peshtigo Fire. A Father and Daughter Went Fishing—and Accidentally ...
The wreck matches the descriptions of the George L. Newman, which was built in 1855 and sank in 1871 during the worst forest fire in U.S. history. A 4-year-old Peshtigo girl went fishing on Lake ...
The Russian-American Company ship (also spelled Kad’iak and Kodiak; formerly Myrtle), wrecked at Honolulu Harbor, Oahu. [7] USS LST-480 United States Navy: 21 May 1944 A tank landing ship sunk following the West Loch Disaster in Pearl Harbor. USNS Mission San Miguel United States: 8 October 1957 A fleet oiler run aground on Maro Reef. USS S-28
The ship that Dement was on sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, along with more than 30,000 pounds of gold. Nearly 150 years later, treasure hunters ran underwater expeditions to the vessel
A sonar image of the shipwreck of the Soviet Navy ship Virsaitis in Estonian waters Johan Christian Dahl: Shipwreck on the Coast of Norway, 1832 Bow of RMS Titanic, first discovered in 1985 Wreck of Costa Concordia. A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water ...
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located at the Whitefish Point Light Station 11 miles (18 km) north of Paradise in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan.The light station property was transferred to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS), the Michigan Audubon Society (MAS), and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in 1996.