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Albatros (19th-century ship) – an American-owned ship that brought news of the outbreak of the War of 1812 to W. P. Hunt.; USFC Albatross – a fisheries research ship in service with the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries from 1882 to 1898 and from 1898 to 1903 and with the United States Bureau of Fisheries from 1903 to 1917 and from 1919 to 1921 which saw service in the United ...
Albatross, originally named Albatros, later Alk, was a sailing ship that became famous when she sank in 1961 with a group of American teenagers on board. The events were the basis for 1996 film White Squall .
The deck of USFC Albatross, June/July 1885. The ship spent the first half of 1885 making cruises from Washington to Pensacola, Florida, and New Orleans, Louisiana, to look into the red-snapper banks and fisheries of the gulf. While visiting New Orleans from 20 February to 1 March 1885, the ship was a major attraction in the Fish Commission ...
Deborah Scaling Kiley (January 21, 1958 – August 13, 2012) [1] was an American sailor, author, motivational speaker, and businesswoman. She was the first American woman to complete the Whitbread Round the World Race. In 1982, she famously survived a boating accident off the coast of North Carolina, which became the basis for her book ...
Replica of 1847 "Baltimore Clipper" Californian built in 1984. A Baltimore clipper is a fast sailing ship historically built on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States, especially at the port of Baltimore, Maryland. An early form of clipper, the name is most commonly applied to two-masted schooners and brigantines.
Category. : Research vessels of the United States. Research vessels of the United States include all ships designed, built, or operated in or by the United States for research or other scientific purposes. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Research ships of the United States. See also research vessels.
Atlantic Compass on the Elbe. Atlantic Companion arriving at Liverpool. Generation 4 class Atlantic Sail. Atlantic Container Line is an American, previously Swedish, shipping company owned by the Italian Grimaldi Group. The company operates large roll-on/roll-off (RORO) container ships between Europe and North America.
USC&GS George S. Blake, in service 1874–1905, is, with the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross, one of only two US oceanographic vessels with her name inscribed in the façade of the Oceanographic Museum (Musée Océanographique), Monaco due to her being "the most innovative oceanographic vessel of the Nineteenth Century" with development of deep ocean exploration through introduction of ...