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Peter Raymond Warner (22 February 1931 [1] – 13 April 2021) was an Australian seafarer and ship's captain who discovered six Tongan youths marooned on a Pacific island in 1966, more than a year after they had been presumed dead.
Captain Francis Bateman had overseen the full evacuation and is reported as shouting his last words demanding an inquiry as to why he was ordered out to sea after reaching safe channel. He then jumped overboard going down with his ship. Both ships were torpedoed by the same German U-boat, SM UC-34, within less than thirty minutes.
Charlie Griffin, a fishing boat captain who was featured on multiple seasons of National Geographic’s Wicked Tuna spinoff, Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks, died in a boating accident Monday. His death ...
Spilled fuel from Cowling’s sunken boat — a 63-foot vessel called Miss Jordi — was found in the water off the Tampa Shrimp Docks. As of Dec. 17, crews were working to clean up the mess ...
A boat captain who recently went missing after his vessel capsized in the Oregon River is now presumed dead.. On Thursday, Sept. 26, the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office shared a statement ...
Captain of the whaling vessels Phoenix and Edward Cary. United States: Yes 1815 1890 Woodget, Richard. English sea captain, known as the master of the sailing clipper Cutty Sark during her most successful period of service in the wool trade between Australia and the United Kingdom. United Kingdom: Yes 1845 1928 Whitall, John M.
Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Constable of the Tower of London, 1430 – 1475.He fell overboard a ship and his body was found in the English Channel; George, Duke of Clarence (born 1449), executed for treason against his brother king Edward IV of England on 1478, by drowning in a barrel of Malmsey wine; or so the legend says, because modern assessments favour the traditional decapitation ...
A former dive boat captain was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday on a negligence conviction known as “seaman’s manslaughter” after 34 people were killed in a fire that broke out on ...