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U. United States and America steamboat disaster. Categories: Shipwrecks in rivers. Shipwrecks of the United States. Ohio River.
The steamer sank north of Huron, Ohio in a storm. City of Dresden: 1922 Ran aground off Long Point. Clarion: 8 December 1909 The passenger ship ran aground in a heavy gale and burned on the south east shoal of Lake Erie. Cleveco: 3 December 1942 While being towed by the tug Admiral she encountered a heavy gale and began to founder.
Tommy Gregory Thompson is an American treasure hunter known for his leading role in the discovery of the wreck of the SS Central America on September 11, 1988. [4] He is also the author of a book about the discovery, America's Lost Treasure, published in 1998, [5] and is a main character in the best-selling 1998 non-fiction book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder.
Brent W. Brisben (born March 20, 1968) is an American treasure hunter best known for salvaging the shipwrecks of the historic 1715 Treasure Fleet, a Spanish treasure fleet returning from the New World to Spain. During the early morning hours of July 31, 1715, seven days after departing from Havana, Cuba, eleven of the twelve ships of this fleet ...
United States Navy. 1 April 1864. A Union stern-wheel tinclad minesweeper and gunboat sunk by a naval mine (called a "torpedo" at the time) in Mobile Bay. USS Tecumseh. United States Navy. 5 August 1864. A Union monitor warship sunk by a naval mine (called a "torpedo" at the time) during the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Navy divers discovered valuable treasures aboard the shipwreck, including gold ingots and coins, as well as the ship’s muddy cannons made in Seville in 1655, and an intact Chinese dinner service.
USS Phenakite (PYc-25) was built 1902 as the yacht Celt by Pusey and Jones, Wilmington, Delaware, for J. Rogers Maxwell, a railroad executive. [2][3] It was launched on April 12, 1902. Shortly after the United States' entry into the First World War, it was acquired by the US Navy on July 3, 1917. [2][3] The ship was placed in service as USS ...
The Blessing of Burntisland was a wooden ferry that carried people and goods 5 miles (8 km) across the Firth of Forth, Scotland, between Burntisland and Leith in the early 17th century. It sank in 1633 carrying a large amount of royal treasure. The shipwreck has never been found.