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The unnamed C4-S-A1-design transport was laid down under a United States Maritime Commission contract (MC Hull No. 702) on 22 February 1943 at Richmond, California, by Kaiser Co., Inc., Yard 3; named General Harry Taylor (AP-145) on 2 October 1943; launched on 10 October 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Mamie M. McHugh; acquired by the Navy on 29 March 1944; placed in ferry commission on 1 April 1944 ...
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
This dive is becoming less common, as the rapid deterioration of the wreck is making diving more difficult on top of the already treacherous dive to reach the vessel. SS Arratoon Apcar – 19th-century British steamship that is now a wreck in Florida; SMS Geier – Unprotected cruiser of the German Imperial Navy
Lost Reef Adventures dive instructor Thomas Aaron Faulkenberry, 44, of Stock Island, was last seen after a 9:20 a.m. dive in the area of the Vandenberg wreck, about seven miles south of Key West ...
The tragedy happened two days after the U.S. Coast Guard called off a search for a diving instructor who disappeared last week while diving a shipwreck, the U.S.S. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, farther ...
A diver over the wreck of SS New Orleans. Tied to the sanctuary is the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center. The museum, located in Alpena on the Thunder Bay River, features exhibits about local shipwrecks and the Great Lakes, an auditorium, an archaeological conservation laboratory, and education areas.
The debris field was found close to the Titanic wreck
The wreck was not located until 1986. She lies in 210 feet (64 m) of water, and much of the below deck area is accessible to divers. [5] It sits angled on the lake bottom with its starboard side pointing up towards the surface. There is large opening from the collision amidships.