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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 ...
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.
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 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 ship was built in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1836–1837 and made several trips across the Atlantic from England, France and the Netherlands to the ports of Baltimore and New York. About the first of March 1854, the Powhattan sailed from the port of Le Havre , France, destined for New York City. [ 2 ]
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.
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The ship was operated for WSA by its agent Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines (Agwilines). The ship was in convoy SG 19 from New York to Greenland transiting the Labrador Sea when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat on February 3, 1943. The ship sank with loss of 674 of the 904 on board with one of the 230 survivors lost after rescue.