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Whydah Gally [1] / ˈ hw ɪ d ə ˈ ɡ æ l i, ˈ hw ɪ d ˌ ɔː / (commonly known simply as the Whydah) was a fully rigged ship that was originally built as a passenger, cargo, and slave ship. On the return leg of her maiden voyage of the triangle trade , Whydah Gally was captured by the pirate Captain Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy , beginning a ...
It is the earliest known shipwreck in the Pacific Northwest. [1] [2] [3] Nehalem: General Warren United States: 30 January 1852: A steamship that was grounded on Clatsop Spit and wrecked in heavy seas: Tillamook Head: Detroit: 25 December 1855: A brig that bumped ground putting out of the Columbia River. Crew abandoned ship after she took on 7 ...
Yaquina Bay, like Coos Bay, is a shallow coastal bay on the Oregon Coast in the Pacific Northwest of North America. The principal town on Yaquina Bay is Newport, Oregon. The Yaquina River flows into the bay. Until modern roads reached Newport in the late 1920s, the principal transportation method to and from Newport was by ship or boat.
A man riding a Jet Ski stumbled across the wreckage, a local museum says.
A 70-year-old retiree-turned-amateur shipwreck hunter discovered the wooden vessels, each 80 to 100 feet long, in the Neches River on Aug. 16, according to the Ice House Museum in Silsbee, Texas.
There have been many notable wildfires in the history of the US state Oregon ... 1933–1951 Tillamook Burn 1933, 1939, 1945 [1] Bandon Fire (1936) [1] 1996 Simnasho ...
A man who grew up on the Neches River was searching the low water near Beaumont when he found five sunken ships. Texas drought exposes resting place of five sunken World War I ships in Neches ...
The Yaquina River (/ j ə ˈ k w ɪ n ə / yə-KWIN-ə) is a stream, 59 miles (95 km) long, on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of Oregon. [2] It drains an area of the Central Oregon Coast Range west of the Willamette Valley near Newport. [3] It rises in the mountains west of Corvallis along the county line between Benton and Lincoln ...