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The Monticello was a schooner-rigged, iron braced, wooden screw-steamer built in Greenpoint, NY by the E. F. Williams Ship Building Company in 1859; chartered by the Navy in May 1861; and purchased on 12 September 1861 at New York from the Cromwell Steamship Company, for service in the Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Captain Henry Eagle in command.
USS Monticello (LSD-35) was a Thomaston-class dock landing ship, the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home in Virginia. Monticello was laid down on 6 June 1955 by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Mississippi ; launched on 10 August 1956; sponsored by Mrs. Harry R. Sheppard , wife of ...
USS Monticello may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Monticello (1859), was a wooden screw steamer launched in 1859, purchased in 1861, sold in 1865; foundered while in merchant service in 1872; USS Monticello (AP-61), was built in 1928 as SS Conte Grande purchased by the US Navy and commissioned, 1942; decommissioned ...
The List of shipwrecks of Isle Royale includes more than 25 ships that have been sunk near Isle Royale in Lake Superior (North America). Isle Royale has been an obstacle to shipping on Lake Superior since the earliest days. Upon its reefs, more than 25 major wrecks have occurred. Some were refloated, but most never left.
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1864 Ship State Description Cronos: Flag unknown The schooner was run into and sunk by the steamship Anglia ( United Kingdom) off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. All eight people on board were rescued by Anglia. Cronos was on a voyage from "Zvenborg" to London, United Kingdom. [8] Mahoning United States
SS Kaiser Wilhelm II was a Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) Kaiser-class ocean liner.She was launched in 1902 in Stettin, Germany.In the First World War she was laid up in New York from 1914 until 1917, when the US Government seized her and renamed her USS Agamemnon.
List of shipwrecks: 16 January 2010 Ship State Description Atlantic Mist United States The 185-foot (56.4 m) fishing vessel – a former PCE-842-class patrol craft – was scuttled as an artificial reef in 100 feet (30 m) of water in the North Atlantic Ocean at , approximately 26 nautical miles (48 km; 30 mi) southeast of Indian River Inlet, Delaware, and equidistant from Cape May, New Jersey ...