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A schooner that was blown up for a movie in Catalina Harbor, Santa Catalina Island, in about 1926. Monfalcone: 31 August 1930 A gambling ship that caught fire and sank off Long Beach. USS Moody United States Navy: 21 February 1933 A Clemson-class destroyer that was blown up in San Pedro Bay for the MGM movie Hell Below. USS Moray United States Navy
USS Los Angeles was a rigid airship, designated ZR-3, which was built in 1923–1924 by the Zeppelin company in Friedrichshafen, Germany, as war reparations.She was delivered to the United States Navy in October 1924 and after being used mainly for experimental work, particularly in the development of the American parasite fighter program, was decommissioned in 1932.
California is a 1947 American Western film directed by John Farrow and featuring Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, and Barry Fitzgerald. [2] Stanwyck's singing voice was dubbed by Kay St. Germaine. Plot
It was also featured in the 1981 movie "Cutter's Way" starring Jeff Bridges, 1999's "The Story of Us" with Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer and Lindsay Lohan's debut feature film, "The Parent ...
In 1899, the sardine fishery collapsed in Italy, energizing the Italian fishermen's immigration to California's fishing villages. The same year, the first sardine cannery in San Francisco Bay was built. Sardines, at this time, existed in large schools of millions of fish migrating each year up the California coast to spawn. [citation needed]
What began as a hunt for betting fishing grounds led Adrian Corkill to research 2.000 shipwrecks. ... Search for fish prompted 37-year shipwreck quest ... Death toll climbs to 11 and thousands of ...
The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in U.S. history. [3] On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while traveling at 20 knots (37 km/h), ran aground at Honda Point (also known as Point Pedernales; the cliffs just off-shore called Devil's Jaw), a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the Gaviota ...
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