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On 21 June 2013, the NOAA survey ship NOAAS Thomas Jefferson, operating in the area to conduct hydrographic surveys for navigation safety after Hurricane Sandy, held a wreath-tossing ceremony in the general area of the wreck to honor Robert J. Walker ' s dead on the 153rd anniversary of her sinking – the first official commemorative ceremony ...
Robert James Walker (July 19, 1801 – November 11, 1869) was an American lawyer, economist and politician. An active member of the Democratic Party, he served as a member of the U.S. Senate from Mississippi from 1835 until 1845, as Secretary of the Treasury from 1845 to 1849 during the administration of President James K. Polk, and briefly as Territorial Governor of Kansas in 1857.
USCS Robert J. Walker United States Coast Guard: 21 June 1860 A survey ship that served in the United States Coast Survey, a predecessor of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey R.P. Resor United States: 28 February 1942 Torpedoed by U-578: Rusland: Struck wreck of Adonis. San Saba: Struck a naval mine. Sindia: 1901
The sidewheel flange of Robert J. Walker on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, photographed by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dive team on 23 June 2013. The survey ship sank in a collision – probably with the commercial schooner Fanny (flag unknown) – off the coast of New Jersey , 12 nautical miles (22 km) southeast of ...
Seagoing cowboys livestock ship c. 1946-47, to U.S. Navy as signals intelligence collection ship Georgetown (AG-165) 1962, scrapped 1971 SS Robert Watchorn: Robert Watchorn: 2941 standard 23 May 1944: 27 June 1944: Sold private 1947, scrapped 1968 SS Robert Wickliffe: Robert Wickliffe: 1842 standard 18 November 1943: 9 December 1943
Mystery shipwreck that claimed captain's life found at bottom ...
SS Robert J. Walker: 7180 Off Moruya, two of crew lost [9] The only ship sunk during the war by a German U-boat in the Pacific Ocean. [10] Attack on ship, sinking and rescue of crew described in the Australian Official Histories of the Second World War. [11] (Liberty ship) 6/2/45 U 862: SS Peter Silvester: 7176 820 nm SW of Fremantle
Coast Guard stations received a Mayday call around 12:10 a.m. Sunday from the crew aboard the “Wind Walker’ ship that they were overturning, according to agency officials.