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The Vamar is a shipwreck (which sank on March 21, 1942) near Mexico Beach, Florida, United States. [2] It is located 3.7 miles offshore from Mexico Beach. It became the ninth Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve when it was dedicated in 2004. [2] On April 10, 2006, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [3]
A Spanish-Cuban slave ship that wrecked on a reef in the Florida Keys after a running gun battle with a Royal Navy anti-slavery patrol ship. USS Helena I United States Navy: 11 September 1919 A yacht that was wrecked off Key West in the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane. Henrietta Marie England: 1700 A slave ship sunk off Florida Keys. Herrera Spain ...
The 1733 Fleet was an entire Spanish convoy (except for one ship) lost in a hurricane off Florida. The lesser severity of the 1733 hurricane (which struck the fleet on July 15) and the shallowness of the wrecksites in the Keys, however, made for many survivors and even left four ships in good enough condition to be re-floated and sent back to Havana.
For years, beachgoers at Daytona Beach Shores in Volusia County, Florida, have unknowingly been walking over a piece of history. Under the sands south of Frank Rendon Park, a wooden object has ...
The remains of a 300-year-old British warship found 30 years ago in the waters off Florida have finally been ... New evidence has determined that the shipwreck remains are that of the gunship ...
A man has gone missing while diving on a World War II shipwreck off Florida’s Atlantic Coast, according to searchers.. Virgil Price, 39, vanished Sunday, May 12, while out with a group of divers ...
Joe Webre United States: 2 October 1893 A steamship lost in the 1893 Cheniere Caminada hurricane. USS Lancaster United States Navy: 25 March 1863 A steamboat that was sunk by Confederate forces off Port Hudson. CSS Louisiana Confederate States Navy: 28 April 1862 An ironclad that burned, exploded, and sunk near Fort St. Philip on the ...
On March 19, 1875, William H. Hunt of Dade County granted the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury a lien of 20 years for the piece of land at Saint Lucie Rocks known as Gilbert's Bar as a site for a house of refuge on the sea coast. According to the 1879 "Annual Report of the Life Saving Service" these houses of refuge along the east coast of ...