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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 ...
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.
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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 ...
RMS Baltic was an ocean liner of the White Star Line that sailed between 1904 and 1932. At 23,876 gross register tonnage, she was the world's largest ship until May 1906.She was the third of a quartet of ships, all measuring over 20,000 gross register tons, dubbed The Big Four, the other three being RMS Celtic, RMS Cedric, and RMS Adriatic.
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 ...
The ship ran aground off Point Carranza south of Constitución: 307–400 people were lost and 23 rescued. 307–400 1860 United States: Lady Elgin – The passenger steamer collided with the schooner Augusta of Oswego in a gale and sank in the early morning of 8 September, on Lake Michigan while en route from Chicago to Milwaukee, Wisconsin ...
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.