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SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there.
TT Seawise Giant—earlier Oppama; later Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, and Mont—was a ULCC supertanker and the longest self-propelled ship in history. It was built in 1974–1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan. The ship possessed the greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded.
USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7), the third Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship (helicopter), was launched by the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 16 March 1963, sponsored by Zola Shoup, wife of General Shoup, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps; and commissioned 20 July 1963. It was the second ship in the Navy to bear the name.
Ship Type Aircraft component Sinking Date Location Casualties Conditions Aquila: Fleet carrier 51 aircraft 19 April 1945 Genova Harbor, Italy — Never completed. Sunk by Italian divers to prevent use as a blockship by Germans. Sparviero: Light carrier 34 aircraft 5 October 1944 Genova Harbor, Italy — Never completed. Sunk by Germans to block ...
A decommissioned Type 074 tank landing ship was torpedoed and sunk in a SINKEX exercise by an unknown Type 039 submarine ( People's Liberation Army Navy). [55] Xin Rong Hai 1 China: The cargo ship sunk after a collision with the Jiujiang Bridge on G240 National Highway, Guangdong Province, China. Seven of the crew were rescued, and four were ...
Hawke ' s bow, which had been designed to sink ships by ramming them, collided with Olympic ' s starboard side near the stern, [4] tearing two large holes in Olympic ' s hull, above and below the waterline, resulting in the flooding of two of her watertight compartments and a twisted propeller shaft.
USS Leftwich (DD-984) was a Spruance-class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi.She was named for Lieutenant Colonel William G. Leftwich, Jr., [1] USMC (1931–1970), commander of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion who was killed in action during Operation Imperial Lake in Quảng Nam Province South Vietnam on 18 November 1970 in a ...
The ships were used to carry supplies for the Royal Navy Task Force sent by the British government to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentine occupation. Sailing for Ascension Island on 25 April 1982, Atlantic Conveyor carried a cargo of six Wessex helicopters from 848 Naval Air Squadron and five RAF Chinook HC.1s from No. 18 Squadron RAF .