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The shipwreck was discovered in 2008. Ontario was found largely intact and very well preserved in the cold water. The wreck discoverers asserted that "the 80-foot sloop of war is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British warship ever found in the Great Lakes."
The wreck of Samuel B. Roberts lies at a depth of 6,895 meters (22,621 ft; 4.284 mi), making her the deepest known shipwreck [12] and the deepest shipwreck ever identified by a crewed submersible. [ 13 ] [ 9 ] It exceeds the previous record of 6,469 meters (21,224 ft; 4.020 mi), set in March 2021 when Vescovo's team found and identified the ...
SS Selma was an oil tanker built in 1919 by F.F. Ley and Company, Mobile, Alabama. President Woodrow Wilson approved the construction of 24 concrete vessels of which only 12 were actually completed.
SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24 July 1915, the ship rolled over onto its side while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. [1] In total, 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
SS Castilian was a British cargo steamship and is now a dangerous wreck in the Irish Sea off the coast of North Wales.She was built in 1919 to a standard First World War design.
List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1914 Ship State Description Arizona United States While pulled out on the beach with no one aboard, the 11-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded on a spit and destroyed by a gale on the west-central coast of the Territory of Alaska at Chiukak), ten nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) west of
List of shipwrecks: 7 January 2007 Ship State Description Hunter United States After suffering heavy icing, the 58-foot (17.7 m) fishing vessel capsized and sank in 10 minutes in the Shelikof Strait 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) east of Cape Igvak) on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula in
While anchored in Cook Inlet off Bluff Point Coal Mine on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska with a partial load of 90 tons of coal aboard, the 53-gross register ton coal barge dragged her anchors during a storm and was blown ashore and wrecked one nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) away from her anchorage. [24] HMT Jessie Nutten ...