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Bluebelle (ship) Bluebelle. (ship) 1928. Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin [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 ...
17 ft (5.2 m) [5] Draft. 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) [5] MV Joyita was an American merchant vessel from which 25 passengers and crew mysteriously disappeared in the South Pacific in October 1955. She was found adrift with no one aboard. The ship was in very poor condition, with corroded pipes and a radio which, while functional, had a range of only ...
1979 Fastnet Race. The 1979 Fastnet Race was the 28th Royal Ocean Racing Club 's Fastnet Race, a yachting race held generally every two years since 1925 on a 605-mile course from Cowes direct to the Fastnet Rock and then to Plymouth via south of the Isles of Scilly. In 1979, it was the climax of the five-race Admiral's Cup competition, as it ...
The yacht’s registered owner is listed as Revtom Ltd., according to online maritime database Equasis. ... Stephen Chamberlain, was killed Sunday when he was hit by a car while running in ...
Anna Matranga. Updated August 21, 2024 at 5:21 PM. Rome — Six people, including two U.S. nationals, a British technology entrepreneur and one of his daughters, were still missing Tuesday after a ...
Bayesian was a flybridge sloop designed by Ron Holland [2] and built by Perini Navi with a 56 m (184 ft) long aluminium hull and superstructure and a single-masted cutter rig. One of the world's largest sailing yachts, it was one of a number of similar vessels from this designer and shipyard, though the only one of their ten 56-metre series ...
Incident. According to American reports, the SY Quest was captured on 18 February 2011 at 13.23 UTC by nineteen pirates in a mothership, 190 to 240 miles off the coast of Oman around 18°00′N 61°02′E in the Indian Ocean. [3][4] Pirates then tried sailing the SY Quest towards Puntland. Sometime thereafter USS Enterprise, the guided missile ...
Dudley Francis Cecil Wolfe (February 6, 1896 – July 30, 1939) was an American socialite. As a racing yacht owner and captain, he was the first person to race a sixty-foot yacht across the Atlantic, competing against much larger vessels. He was to inherit a large fortune from his maternal grandfather provided he changed his family name to ...