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List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1900 Ship State Description Townsend United States During a voyage in Southeast Alaska from Skagway to Haines Mission with eight passengers, a crew of 20, and no cargo aboard, the 450-gross register ton, 125-foot (38 m) steamer was wrecked on rocks in Lynn Canal halfway between Haines Mission and Battery Point after her engine failed during a gale in 22 fathoms ...
Its silhouette is an example of the appearance of early-1900s bulk carriers. MV Benson Ford was named after Henry Ford's grandson, and was the 1924 flagship of the Ford Motor Company. The forward cabin and pilothouse is located on South Bass Island, Ohio , near the village of Put-in-Bay, Ohio a private summer residence owned by Bryan Kasper of ...
The cooperative renamed the vessel Bay Island. Bay Island made as many as 10 stops along the cooperative's route in Hale Passage and Wollochet Bay, and ran in the evening so the produce cargo would be fresh in the morning at the market. [2] Bay Island was abandoned in 1929.
Newark, New Jersey, 1912. From roughly 1860 to 1920 [1] [2] painted photography backdrops were a standard feature of early photography studios. Generally of rustic or quasi-classical design, but sometimes presenting a bourgeoisie trompe-l'œil, [3] they eventually fell out of fashion with the advent of the Brownie and Kodak cameras which brought photography to the masses with concurrent ...
One of his lesser known projects consisted of documenting immigrants coming through Ellis island. In 1901 Hine was a teacher at the Ethical Culture School in New York City.
In World War I, Great Britain, as an island nation, was heavily dependent on foreign trade and imported resources.Germany found that their submarines, or U-boats, while of limited effectiveness against surface warships on their guard, were greatly effective against merchant ships, and could easily patrol the Atlantic even when Allied ships dominated the surface.
1963 While surfing traces its roots back to 17th century Hawaii, the sport wasn't largely popularized in the United States until after World War II and reached its "golden age" in the 1960s, when ...