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However, after an appeal by the White Star Line, this was revisited, and a careful analysis showed that Atlantic did indeed have sufficient coal for the journey to New York. The report concluded with: "We are satisfied that the steamship Atlantic on her last voyage was supplied with sufficient coal for a voyage to New York at that season of the ...
A steamboat that burned near Fort Peck on the Missouri River. Chippewa: 10 May 1861 A steamboat built in 1859, that burned near the mouth of the Poplar River in the Missouri River. James D. Rankin: 1877 A steamboat that wrecked on the Yellowstone River. Oakes: 1892 A steamboat that sank in the North Fork of the Flathead River. [34] Red Cloud ...
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863, depicting the USS Monitor sinking in a storm off Cape Hatteras on the night of 30–31 December 1862. Along the Outer Banks, navigational challenges posed by the Diamond Shoals area off Cape Hatteras, caused the loss of thousands of ships and an unknown number of human lives.
The destruction of U-701 happened on July 7, 1942, near Cape Hatteras, and was the last sinking of a German submarine in Torpedo Alley. American Lockheed Hudson aircraft from the United States Army 396th Bombardment Squadron attacked the surfaced U-701 with depth charges.
USS Bazely United States Navy: 9 December 1864 Sank in Roanoke River near Jamseville after striking a mine while attempting to aid USS Otsego. HMT Bedfordshire Royal Navy: 11 May 1942 Anti-submarine trawler torpedoed by German submarine U-588 off the coast of Ocracoke Island. [10
The Atlantic Ocean is here defined in its widest sense, to include its marginal seas: the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the English Channel, the Labrador Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the mid-Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the North Channel, the Norwegian Sea, and the waters of West Africa
The ship was operated for WSA by its agent Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines (Agwilines). The ship was in convoy SG 19 from New York to Greenland transiting the Labrador Sea when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat on February 3, 1943. The ship sank with loss of 674 of the 904 on board with one of the 230 survivors lost after rescue.
Perhaps reassured by Atlantic steaming away, McNeil steered Ogdensburg back onto its regular course. [12] Many passengers on Atlantic were awakened by the collision, but the crew of Atlantic made no effort to alert all the passengers. [15] [14] Water flowing in through the hole in Atlantic soon flooded the boilers, bringing the ship to a halt. [15]