Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
SS Cotopaxi was an Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) Design 1060 bulk carrier built for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) under the World War I emergency shipbuilding program. The ship, launched 15 November 1918, was named after the Cotopaxi stratovolcano of Ecuador .
Pages in category "Shipwrecks of the Texas coast" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
One person, a trader called Ling, survived to bring word of the wreck to St. Michael. Jessie was towing the barge Minerva and a second unknown barge, which were both lost. Yup'ik Eskimos were said to have looted vessels. [8] Kad'yak Russia: 2 April 1860 A merchant ship that struck a rock off Spruce Island. The wreck was rediscovered in 2003 ...
A man riding a Jet Ski stumbled across the wreckage, a local museum says.
The researchers from Texas A&M's Galveston branch had already found three shipwrecks roughly 175 miles off the coast. So they sent two remote-controlled vehicles to investigate what they believed ...
An old shipwreck, believed to be the World War I vessel the SS Tobol, has been uncovered off the northeast coast of Scotland, solving what discoverers say is a "107-year-old maritime mystery."
Barnette sought help from historians and researchers to ensure that it was the SS Cotopaxi. In doing so, he learned that the ship had sent a distress signal two days into its voyage from a location that aligns with where the wreckage was found. The discovery was featured on a February episode of Shipwreck Secrets, a Science Channel series. In ...
The Mansfield Cut Underwater Archeological District contains three Spanish shipwrecks caused by a 1554 storm off the southern Texas Gulf Coast near the Mansfield Cut. While the exact location of the site is unpublished, the three shipwrecks were found near the Padre Island National Seashore.