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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 Confederate ironclad ram that was burned and scuttled in the Chattahoochee River near Columbus. USS Noble United States Navy: 1862 A bark that was scuttled as a blockship near Savannah. USS Phoenix United States Navy: 5 December 1861 A whaler that was scuttled as a breakwater off Tybee Island. Rattlesnake Confederate States: 28 February 1863
USS Bainbridge United States Navy: 21 August 1863 Capsized off Cape Hatteras. 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
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.
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
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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]