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F/V Andrea Gail was an American commercial fishing vessel that was lost at sea with all hands during the Perfect Storm of 1991. The vessel and her six-man crew had been fishing the North Atlantic Ocean out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her last reported position was 180 mi (290 km) northeast of Sable Island on October 28, 1991.
Bluebelle (ship) Bluebelle. (ship) 1928. Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, U.S. [1] Bluebelle was a 60-foot (18 m) twin- masted sailing ketch based out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The ship was scuttled following an act of mass murder by the ship's captain, Julian Harvey, on November 12, 1961. [3] Harvey died by suicide on November 17 within hours of ...
Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre particularly strong from the 17th to 19th centuries. [1] In practice the term often covers art showing ...
Appel and Fuiava were residents of Honolulu, living with two dogs (Zeus and Valentine) aboard their sailboat Sea Nymph. [5] The women said they set sail from Hawaii on May 3, 2017 for an 18-day, [4] 2,700-mile (4,300 km) voyage to Tahiti, [6] but encountered a "force 11 storm" (winds between 56–63 knots (104–117 km/h; 64–72 mph), waves from 37–52 feet (11–16 m)) that same night. [4]
School teacher. Known for. Sailing single-handed across the Atlantic Ocean in a 10-foot (3.0 m) sailboat. Gerald F. Spiess (January 24, 1940 – June 18, 2019) was an American school teacher best known for having sailed his 10-foot (3.0 m) home-built sailboat Yankee Girl solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1979 and across the Pacific in 1981. [1][2]
U-boats then began to attack merchant vessels at times, although almost always in accordance with the old cruiser rules. Desperate to gain an advantage on the Atlantic and define a role for the Navy, and heavily overestimating the effectiveness of the new weapon, the Admiralty under Hugo von Pohl decided to step up its submarine campaign .
16,000 litres. Crew. 12 to 16. Merida (formerly MV Brigitte Bardot, MV Gojira, Rat Race Media Adventurer, Ocean 7 Adventurer and Cable and Wireless Adventurer) is a high-tech 35 m (115 ft) trimaran twin diesel engine powered vessel designed by Nigel Irens. Construction of the vessel began in June 1997 and she was launched on 16 March 1998.
RMS Queen Mary [3] is a retired British ocean liner that operated primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line.Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, she was subsequently joined by RMS Queen Elizabeth [4] in Cunard's two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York.