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When launched on 7 June 1958, it was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and it remains the largest to have sunk there. 29 1978 West Germany: The MS München was a LASH carrier of the Hapag-Lloyd line that sank with all crew for unknown reasons in a severe storm on 13 December.
At the time she was built, she was the heaviest self-propelled ship of any kind. With a laden draft of 24.6 m (81 ft) and a length of 458.45 m (1,504.10 ft), she was incapable of navigating the English Channel, [5] the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal. Overall, she is generally considered the largest self-propelled ship ever built.
USS Archerfish (SS/AGSS-311) was a Balao-class submarine.She was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the archerfish. Archerfish is best known for sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano in November 1944, the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine.
The ship had an aviation gasoline (avgas) capacity of 720,000 liters (160,000 imp gal; 190,000 U.S. gal). [12] Because TaihÅ had been sunk by an explosion of gasoline fumes, large ventilation fans were installed on the hangar deck to expel fumes in case of damage to the gasoline system. Canvas wind scoops could also be rigged over the elevator ...
The ship was towed and beached. 33 people died while around 200 passengers were rescued. [51] 33 2012 Italy: Costa Concordia – The Italian cruise ship ran aground, capsized and sank in shallow waters on 13 January off the Isola del Giglio, killing 32 people (27 passengers and 5 crewmembers) out of 3,216 passengers and 1,013 crewmembers aboard. 32
Wolfgang Steinbauer sank three ships on the list in UB-47 and damaged a fourth in UB-48. [7] Kptlt. Gustav Sieß —responsible for sinking the largest ship on the list, the hospital ship Britannic struck a mine and sunk (the younger sister ship of Titanic and Olympic )—topped the list with five entries, four (including Britannic ) sunk in U ...
Mauretania and Lusitania were the only ships with direct-drive steam turbines to hold the Blue Riband; in later ships, reduction-geared turbines were mainly used. [14] Mauretania ' s usage of the steam turbine was the largest application yet of the then-new technology, developed by Charles Algernon Parsons . [ 15 ]
As the ship started to sink, the second, then third hatches also failed, dragging the ship underwater. As the ship sank, the increasing water pressure caused the ship to be twisted and torn apart by implosion/explosion, a property of double-hulled ships in which the compression of the air between the hulls causes a secondary explosive ...