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USTS Texas Clipper, a 473 foot long ship, served as a merchant marine training vessel with the Texas Maritime Academy at Texas A&M University at Galveston for 30 years beginning in 1965. Her name is reflective of clipper ships of old, both designed with a characteristic rounded stern.
Bow of the Spiegel Grove Anti-aircraft gun on the stern of the Thistlegorm Deck of the Um Al Faroud Entrance to the cave system at Dos Ojos Diving at Piccaninnie ponds Wazee Lake near Black River Falls, Wisconsin is a former iron mining quarry now used for scuba diving and other uses. Recreational dive sites of the greater Cape Town region.
The Texas Maritime Academy acquired its first training ship in 1965. Previously named the SS Excambion when sailed by American Export Lines, the vessel was renamed the Texas Clipper because of its rounded (or clipper) stern. In 1996, Texas A&M Galveston (of which Texas Maritime was now a part) retired the aging Texas Clipper.
The ship was loaned to the Texas Maritime Academy 26 April 1965, for service as a merchant marine officer training ship and renamed USTS Texas Clipper. She continued serving in this role for the next thirty years, until being sunk as an artificial reef on 17 November 2007, seventeen miles off South Padre Island, Texas.
The Joker is located on its former site. Power Dive 1987 2001 Intamin Looping Starship: Orleans Place Removed because of maintenance issues. Its body could be seen in the boneyard for many years. Replaced with King Chaos. Sky Whirl: 1976 2000 Intamin Triple Tree Wheel County Fair Removed due to age, maintenance, and to make room for Déjà Vu.
Six Flags opened in 1961 in Arlington. These photos from the Star-Telegram show long-gone rides, historic moments and fun memories from the 1960s into into 2010s.
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Boesmansgat – Sinkhole and dive site in South Africa; Bohol Sea – Marginal sea between the Visayas and Mindanao in the Philippines; Booya – Schooner wrecked in Darwin, Australia; BOS 400 – Recent wreck and dive site at Duiker Point on the Cape Peninsula west coast; Bottle Island – One of the Summer Isles in Loch Broom, Scotland