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Pages in category "Shipwrecks of Hawaii" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. USS Arizona;
In 2008 a shipwreck of a 19th-century whaling ship was found near Shark island. [10] The wreck was identified in 2011 as the whaling sailing ship Two Brothers. The ship wrecked the night of February 11, 1823, under the command of Captain George Pollard Jr. (of Essex fame). The crew was able to be rescued by another whaling ship they were on the ...
The name Kamaʻehuakanaloa is a Hawaiian language word for "glowing child of Kanaloa", the god of the ocean. [10] This name was found in two Hawaiian mele from the 19th and early twentieth centuries based on research at the Bishop Museum and was assigned by the Hawaiʻi Board on Geographic Names in 2021 and adopted by the U.S. Geological Survey.
The wreck of the USS Saginaw was found in 2003. [34] The research dive studying the wreck was featured in the book A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters: Life on Board USS Saginaw. [35] In 2008, the shipwreck of the vessel Gledstanes was found. [18] The Gledstanes was a British whaling ship that wrecked in 1837. [18] In 2010, the wreck of a ...
An important factor in the condition of the wreck is the level of destruction at the time of the loss or shortly afterwards due to the nature of the loss, salvage or later demolition. Examples of severe destruction at the time of loss are: Being blown onto a beach, reef, or rocks during a storm, termed "grounding" (e.g., Royal Adelaide)
But its three-masted timber sailing ship Endurance fell victim to the treacherous Weddell Sea, becoming ensnared in pack ice in January 1915. It was progressively crushed and sank 10 months later.
Pages in category "Shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A possible shipwreck has been found after a blizzard in the midwest caused a seiche, which pushed water across Lake Erie from Ohio to New York. Low water levels caused by blizzard reveal potential ...