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Waubuno was built by Melancthon Simpson at Port Robinson in 1865 for J. & W. Beatty and Company, [3] and was later owned by the Georgian Bay Transportation Company. [4] Her main purpose was to run passengers and freight from the Northern Railway 's railhead at Collingwood to places further north, including Parry Sound and Thunder Bay. [ 3 ]
The list of shipwrecks of Humboldt County, California lists the ships which sank on or near the coast of Humboldt County from the Del Norte county line to the north, the marine area around Cape Mendocino and south to the Mendocino County line to the south, as well as within Humboldt Bay itself. If survivors or casualties arrived or were ...
Sweepstakes (also known as Sweeps) was a Canadian schooner built in Burlington, Ontario, in 1867.It was damaged off Cove Island, then towed to Big Tub Harbour in the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron, where it sank in September 1885.
"On the night of June 6, 1853, the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon ran aground 500 feet off shore of the central California coast. The area is now called Pigeon Point in her honor. The Carrier Pigeon was a state-of-the art, 19th Century clipper ship. She was 175 feet long with a narrow, 34 foot beam and rated at about 845 tons burden.
Jul. 27—Things are about to get busy at 615 Bay St. in Brunswick. The enormous steel slab of shipwreck that now commands the skyline thereabouts from its perch beside the East River is coming down.
This steamship was the predecessor of Yaquina Bay. Lost a year later at the same spot, effectively ruining the vessel owners, the Oregon Development Co. Newport: Yaquina Bay United States: 9 December 1888: Originally named Caracas. She was the sister ship of Valencia and successor of Yaquina Bay.
The Russian-American Company ship (also spelled Kad’iak and Kodiak; formerly Myrtle), wrecked at Honolulu Harbor, Oahu. [7] USS LST-480 United States Navy: 21 May 1944 A tank landing ship sunk following the West Loch Disaster in Pearl Harbor. USNS Mission San Miguel United States: 8 October 1957 A fleet oiler run aground on Maro Reef. USS S-28
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.