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On Monday 31 October 1927, the steamship freighter Margaret Dollar (built in 1921 as the S.S. Celestial and renamed in 1922) [1] was transiting off the Washington coast when, off Cape Flattery, it came upon a drifting Japanese fore-and-aft rigged fishing boat, the Ryo Yei Maru, a sturdy vessel of fairly recent construction.
A smack was a traditional fishing boat used off the coast of Britain and the Atlantic coast of America for most of the 19th century and, in small numbers, up to the Second World War. Many larger smacks were originally cutter -rigged sailing boats until about 1865, when smacks had become so large that cutter main booms were unhandy.
A World War II-era steamship that sank along with its captain in a strong storm in 1940 has been found at the bottom of Lake Superior after a 10-year search.
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.
The Ironton’s captain and six sailors clambered into a lifeboat but it was dragged to the bottom before they could detach it from the ship in a 1894 disaster. Long-lost ship found in Lake Huron ...
A 14-year-old American boy missing for three days after he walked away from a Caribbean Princess cruise ship at a German port was found safe Saturday, police and a family member said.
She is the last known surviving American well smack. This type of boat is also termed a sloop smack or Noank smack. The Noank design was imitated in other regions of the United States. Emma C. Berry was built in 1866 at the Palmer Shipyards in Noank, Connecticut by James A. Latham. [3] [4] The boat was named for Captain John Henry Berry's ...
Allies often reported seeing an old US Navy ship in enemy hands, earning it the nickname the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific”. Photo shows sailors watching as the USS Stewart was sunk on May 24 ...