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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 ...
Sanctuary location The Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Ontario off the coast of the U.S. state of New York . It protects 41 known historically significant shipwrecks spanning 200 years of American maritime history, as well as 19 potential shipwreck sites.
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 ...
SS Louis Sheid – Belgian ship sunk off Devon on 1939. Now a recreational dive site; USS LST-507 – US Tank landing ship sunk off the south coast of England, now a dive site; HMS M2 – Royal Navy submarine monitor wrecked in Lyme Bay; SS Maine – British ship sunk in 1917 near Dartmouth, Devon. Now a recreational dive site
List of maritime museums in the United States is a sortable list of American museums which display objects related to ships and water travel. Many of these maritime museums have museum ships in their collections. Member museums of the Council of American Maritime Museums (CAMM) are indicated in the last column.
USS Arizona: Hawaii 5 May 1989: Shipwreck 3: Land Tortoise: New York 5 August 1998: Shipwreck 4: Maple Leaf: Florida 12 October 1994: Shipwreck 5: USS Monitor: North Carolina 23 June 1986: Shipwreck 6: Truk Lagoon Underwater Fleet, Truk Atoll: Micronesia: 4 February 1985: Shipwrecks 7: USS Utah: Hawaii 5 May 1989: Shipwreck
Ship Ship type Build date Sunk date Depth Notes Coordinates NRHP status Image Albany: Wooden paddle steamer 1846 1853 5 feet (1.5 m) On November 26, 1853 while carrying 200 passengers and various supplies, the Albany went aground near Presque Isle, Michigan, and was destroyed by a storm the next day. [2] [3
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.