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In 1967, the CGC Cactus homeport was changed from Boston to Bristol, Rhode Island. In Nov/Dec 1969 the ship sailed from Bristol with a delivery Prize Crew, to her new homeport at Tongue Point Coast Guard Base in Astoria, Oregon, in December 1969. The entire CGC Cactus crew flew from Seattle to Boston for reassignment in CCDONE [clarification ...
The Russian-American Company (RAC) ship wrecked on a reef at Kruzof Island, killing 53 people, including Terentii Stepanovich Bornovolokov, who was to replace Alexander Baranov as Governor of the RAC. Total loss from the wreck over 250,000 rubles. Second gravest marine catastrophe in the history of Russian America, after the loss of Feniks in ...
Rhode Island: Bristol: Herreshoff Marine Museum: Archived 2007-12-29 at the Wayback Machine: Y Rhode Island: Newport: Museum of Yachting: Y Rhode Island: Newport: Naval War College Museum: Rhode Island: Warwick: Steamship Historical Society of America: Y South Carolina: Charleston: Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum Y Tennessee: Memphis
A Rhode Island-based research group originally said it was too premature to call the shipwreck Cook’s vessel. New findings regarding the pump well and bow further point to this ship in fact ...
Merritt-Chapman & Scott, nicknamed "The Black Horse of the Sea", was a noted marine salvage and construction firm of the United States, with worldwide operations. The chief predecessor company was founded in the 1860s by Israel Merritt, but a large number of other firms were merged in over the course of the company's history.
Green Jacket Shoal is a 33-acre (13 ha) shoal and ship graveyard in Providence River, between the cities of East Providence and Providence, Rhode Island, United States.It contains a large amount of debris from a century of abandoned and wrecked ships, destroyed docks, pilings, and other remnants of the area's industrial past.
The Rhode Island Marine Fisheries Council will hold its Shellfish Advisory Panel meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 18, beginning at 4:30 p.m. The panel makes shellfish policy recommendations on both ...
Often, attempts are made to salvage shipwrecks, particularly those recently wrecked, to recover the whole or part of the ship, its cargo, or its equipment. An example was the salvage of the scuttled German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow in the 1920s and 1930s. The unauthorized salvage of wrecks is called wrecking.