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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.
Divers found Royal Navy crockery still sitting in the ship’s rooms. Nearly 110 years ago, the HMS Hawke was sent plunging to the bottom of the sea by a torpedo launched from a German U-boat.
Much like battlecruisers, battleships typically sank with large loss of life if and when they were destroyed in battle.The first battleship to be sunk by gunfire alone, [4] the Russian battleship Oslyabya, sank with half of her crew at the Battle of Tsushima when the ship was pummeled by a seemingly endless stream of Japanese shells striking the ship repeatedly, killing crew with direct hits ...
WWII ship sunk by German torpedo located off Brazil's coast ... The site of the wreck was initially found in 2011 by a pair of brothers after a fisherman's net got stuck at the bottom of the sea ...
An American World War II warship sunk by Japanese forces in a fierce ... Sunken US WWII warship that went down with more than 200 servicemen found after 81 years ... “The wreck of this ship is a ...
A wreck, possibly that of Vernon was found in 1908 by two fishermen, 8 miles (12.9 km) north of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, 5 miles (8.0 km) off shore in 300 feet (91.4 m) of water. [26] The wreck of Vernon was located in 1969 by Kent Bellrichard of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [27] She rests intact in 210 feet (64 m) of water, northeast of Two Rivers.
A team of investigators says they have found the wreck of the USS Stewart, a U.S. Navy destroyer that served under both American and Japanese flags during World War II before it was deliberately ...
SS Richard Montgomery is a wrecked American Liberty ship that was built during World War II. She was named after Richard Montgomery, an Irish officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. [4] She was wrecked on the Nore sandbank in the Thames Estuary, near Sheerness, Kent, England, in August 1944, while carrying a cargo of munitions.