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Solomon Islands. MS World Discoverer was a cruise ship designed for and built by Schichau Unterweser, Germany in 1974. During construction called BEWA Discoverer, the ship was completed in Bremerhaven, Germany. In 2000, the ship struck an underwater obstacle and was damaged; it was subsequently grounded – to prevent sinking – and abandoned ...
Ironbottom Sound, Savo Island (center), and Guadalcanal (left) on 7 August 1942, the day Allied forces landed on Guadalcanal and Tulagi. " Ironbottom Sound " (alternatively Iron Bottom Sound or Ironbottomed Sound or Iron Bottom Bay) is the name given by Allied sailors to the stretch of water at the southern end of The Slot between Guadalcanal ...
The Cruise of the Snark (1911) [1] is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch the Snark. Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian London and a small crew. London taught himself celestial navigation and the basics of sailing and of boats ...
The ship was ultimately abandoned on the reef. [4] A court of inquiry regarding the fate of the Yankee was held the following day, with acknowledgments by several passengers that the entire cruise had been under-funded and the ship poorly-maintained. [5] The hull of the wreck of the Yankee could easily be seen from shore for decades after the ...
MV Lyubov Orlova (built as Lyubovy Orlova) [2] was a Yugoslavia -built ice-strengthened Maria Yermolova -class cruise ship, which was built in 1976 and primarily used for Antarctic cruises. After being taken out of service in 2010, she sat in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada for two years. Decommissioning was fraught with problems and the ship ...
Biuku Gasa (27 July 1923 – 23 November 2005) and Eroni Kumana (c. 1918 [1] – 2 August 2014 [2]) were Solomon Islanders of Melanesian descent who found John F. Kennedy and his surviving PT-109 crew following the boat's collision with the Japanese destroyer Amagiri near Plum Pudding Island on 1 August 1943. They were from the Western Province ...
The island is also known as the home of Captain Kidd's sunken ship, the Quedagh Merchant, believed to have been abandoned by the Scottish pirate in 1699. Ocean Cay, Bahamas (MSC Cruises private ...
The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, fought during 25–27 October 1942, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Santa Cruz or Third Battle of Solomon Sea, in Japan as the Battle of the South Pacific (Japanese: 南太平洋海戦Minamitaiheiyō kaisen), was the fourth aircraft carrier battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II.