Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A steam-powered ocean liner that collided with Florida south of Nantucket Island: Stephano United Kingdom: 8 October 1916 Torpedoed by and sunk by U-53, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east-north-east of Nantucket. U-550 Kriegsmarine: 16 April 1944
The museum features over 5,000 objects and memorabilia gathered from local shipwrecks from the past 300 years. The collection includes period surfboats, beach carts, Fresnel lenses from Brant Point and Great Point lights, vintage photographs, models of lifesaving stations throughout the island of Nantucket, and models of ships that have wrecked in the past few centuries.
Chase returned to Nantucket on June 11, 1821, to find he had a 14-month-old daughter he had never met. Four months later he had completed an account of the disaster, the Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex; Herman Melville used it as one of the inspirations for his 1851 novel Moby-Dick.
The boat was discovered by a man from Nantucket on an early morning bike ride. Skip to main content. News. Need help? Call us! 800-290-4726. Login / Join. Mail. Downloads ...
Closest shipwreck to the mouth of the Buffalo River: Narragansett: 11 June 1880 A passenger paddle steamer of the Stonington Line that burned and sank on 11 June 1880, after a collision with her sister ship Stonington in heavy fog at 23:30 in Long Island Sound. Approximately 50 passengers, but only one crewman, died. Nisbet Grammer United Kingdom
On her first whaling voyage, Two Brothers left Nantucket on 21 November 1818, with George B. Worth, master. On March 5, 1821, the ship encountered fellow Nantucket whaleship Dauphin which on February 23 had rescued Captain George Pollard Jr. and crewman Charles Ramsdell who were on a whaleboat from the whaleship Essex which had sunk after being rammed twice by a sperm whale.
Shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts (5 P) ... United States lightship Nantucket (LV-58) Nantucket (ship) USS New Hampshire (1864)
MV Argo Merchant was a Liberian-flagged oil tanker built by Howaldtswerke in Hamburg, Germany, in 1953, most noted for running aground and subsequently sinking southeast of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, causing one of the largest marine oil spills in history.