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Over 15 years, the ship had nearly 30 serious accidents, including a major fire in 1986. [2] [7] After the fire, Polish Ocean Lines ordered repairs to the ship, which resulted in 70 tons of concrete being added to the affected deck, causing stability issues. [8] [9] Four days before the disaster, the ship's stern gate was damaged while docking ...
U. United States and America steamboat disaster. Categories: Shipwrecks in rivers. Shipwrecks of the United States. Ohio River.
SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old ship sank.
SS Carl D. Bradley was an American self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Michigan storm on November 18, 1958. Of the 35 crew members, 33 died in the sinking. Twenty-three were from the port town of Rogers City, Michigan, United States.
History. Basil L. Spangler, born in 1817, was a dry-goods merchant from Cleveland who ran his own form, B. L. Spangler and Company. [3] In 1856, Spangler commissioned William Jones, a shipbuilder from Black River Ohio (now Lorain ), to construct a schooner. [4] The schooner was named Kyle Spangler, after Spangler's son, born in 1851.
The infamous Ohio River camper sits on a sandbar on July 28, 2022. It caused a stir throughout the during its multi-day stay. High water eventually overtook it, and it broke up as crews attempted ...
The 1917 video "Down the Old Potomac (Part 1 of 3)" shows the canal during its operating days. Some of the information is inaccurate. For example, it says that "barges" (more correctly "boats") passed through 86 locks descending 800 feet to tidewater; in fact, there were 77 locks descending 610 feet.
The United States and America steamboat disaster was a collision between two US Mail Line Company ships on the Ohio River in 1868. [1] Both ships were sunk and about seventy-four people died. The death toll makes this accident one of the worst Ohio River maritime disasters of all time. On the night of 4 December 1868, sister ships owned by the ...