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The cargo consisted of fifteen hogsheads spermaceti oil, 100 barrels tar, and the rigging and sails of the ship Charles, which was cast away near Nantucket - all of which will be saved with little damage. It is not known by the mate who the oil belongs to; it will be forwarded to Boston immediately. Your humble servant, Reuben Drew." [13] Rodney
Detail from NOAA nautical chart 12300 showing the Nantucket Shoals in relation to Nantucket Island.. Nantucket Shoals is an area of dangerously shallow water in the Atlantic Ocean that extends from Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, eastward for 23 miles (37 km) and southeastward for 40 miles (64 km); in places water depth can be as shallow as 3 feet (0.91 m). [1]
The Massachusetts Bay Disposal Site in deep water off the coast has been used for ocean dumping, to dispose of munitions, dredged material, rock and construction debris and sunken vessels. [1] Chemical warfare munitions were dumped between 1919 and 1970, and hundreds of thousands of tons of surplus artillery and munitions were dumped after ...
The ghosts of oil spills past are still haunting Transocean (NYS: RIG) . In the fourth quarter, the company reported a $1 billion estimated loss contingency in relation to the Macondo Well ...
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Ruins of the Great Boston Fire of 1872 Aftermath of the Grover Shoe Factory disaster (1905) Great Chelsea fire of 1908 Streetcar involved in the Summer Street Bridge disaster (1916) being raised from the river Wreckage of the Great Molasses Flood (1919) Damage from the 1953 Worcester tornado Andrea Doria sinking (1956) Wreckage of Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 (1960) Wreckage of the 1967 ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — On a recent Sunday, Tracy Quinn drove down the Pacific Coast Highway to assess damage wrought upon the coastline by the Palisades Fire. The water line was darkened by ash. Burnt remnants of washing machines and dryers and metal appliances were strewn about the shoreline. Sludge carpeted the water's edge.