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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 ...
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 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
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.
The USS Amesbury was at the invasion of Normandy in World War II. Intimate artifact from warship sunk off Key West found stashed in piece of furniture Skip to main content
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
While approaching USS Oriskany for a night landing in the Sea of Japan, U.S. naval aviator LT John R. C. Mitchell's McDonnell F2H Banshee begins to sink. Mitchell turns but fails to clear the ship and crashes into the ship's fantail. The rear half of the airplane falls into the ocean in flames, but Mitchell sustains only minor injuries.