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A British cargo ship torpedoed and sunk by U-67 off the coast of Apalachicola [citation needed] 29°29′N 85°17′W / 29.483°N 85.283°W / 29.483; -85.283 (Empire Mica) HMS Fox (1799) Royal Navy. 1799. A 14 gun schooner that was sunk off Dog Island. [citation needed] Grace Andrews.
The newly commissioned Franklin departing Norfolk in February 1944. The keel of Franklin was laid down on 7 December 1942 in Shipway 11, the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and she was launched by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company, in Virginia, on 14 October 1943, sponsored by Lieutenant Commander Mildred H. McAfee, an American naval officer who was the Director of the WAVES.
SS. El Faro. SS El Faro was a United States- flagged, combination roll-on/roll-off and lift-on/lift-off cargo ship crewed by U.S. merchant mariners. Built in 1975 by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. as Puerto Rico, the vessel was renamed Northern Lights in 1991 and, finally, El Faro in 2006. She was lost at sea with her entire crew of 33 on ...
On 21 May 1943 the keel was laid, she was launched on 20 July 1943 and commissioned on 27 March 1944. The original cost for the hull and machinery was $876,403. Blackthorn was one of 39 original 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tenders built between 1942 and 1944. All but one of the original tenders, USCGC Ironwood, were built in Duluth.
19 August 1915. A V25 -class torpedo boat sunk by a mine near Ruhnu in the Gulf of Riga during the Battle of the Gulf of Riga. Sivuch. Imperial Russian Navy. 19 August 1915. A Gilyak -class gunboat sunk by the Imperial German Navy battleships Nassau and Posen in the Gulf of Riga during the Battle of the Gulf of Riga.
ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami to Atlanta.On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Florida Everglades about ten minutes after departing Miami as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment probably caused by mislabeled and improperly stored hazardous cargo.
91–103 aircraft. USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34), (/ ɔːrˈɪskəniː / or / əˈrɪskəniː /), was one of the few Essex -class aircraft carriers completed after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was named for the Battle of Oriskany during the Revolutionary War. The history of Oriskany differs considerably from that of her sister ...
List of shipwrecks of the United States. List of shipwrecks of California. List of shipwrecks of Florida. List of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. List of shipwrecks of Massachusetts. List of shipwrecks of North Carolina. List of shipwrecks of Oregon. List of shipwrecks of South America. List of shipwrecks of Oceania.