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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
The trawler foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all nine crew. Officially declared lost on 17 February. [23] LT-1969: United States Army: The vessel sank in the Qui Nhon area, Vietnam. Salvaged by USS YMLC-5, USS BD 6062 and USS BD 6662 (all United States Navy) between 7 and 17 February. [25] Manes P Greece
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 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.
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.
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Both remained on the America until its conversion by the Navy into a troop transport and its commission into the U.S. Navy as the USS West Point. Stigler and Siegler, along with the 31 other German agents of the Duquesne Spy Ring , were later uncovered by the FBI in the largest espionage conviction in U.S. history.