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"On the night of June 6, 1853, the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon ran aground 500 feet off shore of the central California coast. The area is now called Pigeon Point in her honor. The Carrier Pigeon was a state-of-the art, 19th Century clipper ship. She was 175 feet long with a narrow, 34 foot beam and rated at about 845 tons burden.
The wreck of a US Navy destroyer known as the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific” has been found off the coast of California by undersea investigators.
A team of investigators says they have found the wreck of the USS Stewart, a U.S. Navy destroyer that served under both American and Japanese flags during World War II before it was deliberately ...
The ship was found in incredible condition. The remains largely intact and its hull rests upright on the seat floor. The USS Stewart was deliberately sunk in a military exercise off California in ...
Built in 1888 in Philadelphia, this passenger ship wrecked at the entrance to Humboldt Bay. One person died in the first boat lowered, the rest of the 154 people on board waited for rescue by the life-saving station and were saved. The ship rotted where it came aground. [3] Her wreck could be seen until at least the early 1970s.
In early 1819 a party from Volunteer investigated the wreck, finding it on the rocks, full of water, with hundreds of Haida on board or nearby, determined to repel any attempt to salvage anything. [4] USC&GS Carlile P. Patterson United States: 11 December 1938 A research vessel that ran ashore in the Gulf of Alaska. City of Seattle: 15 August 1912
The wreck of a US warship sunk in a World War II battle dubbed one of the bravest ever stands by a US Navy vessel has been found in the depths of the Pacific, US and Australian officials announced ...
Carrier Pigeon (ship) Centerville Beach Cross; USS Champlin (DD-104) USS Charles J. Kimmel; USS Chauncey (DD-296) SS City of Chester; SS City of Rio de Janeiro; USS Colahan; SS Collaroy; SS Columbia (1880) Sinking of MV Conception; USS Conestoga (AT-54) USS Conyngham (DD-371) SS Cuba (1920) USS Currier