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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 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.
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 ...
USS Home United States: 12 October 1870 Steamship that sank off Cape Hatteras. USS Huron United States: 24 November 1877 Ran aground off Nags Head. Idaho: 18 February 1895 The paddle steamer foundered in a storm while under tow USS Indra United States Navy: 4 August 1992 Sunk as artificial reef. USS Iron Age United States Navy: 11 January 1864
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.
RMS Titanic Inc., a Georgia-based firm, holds the legal rights to salvage the wreck of the ship, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912. The Titan submersible disaster killed all five
Maple Leaf (shipwreck) USS Maria J. Carlton; Mary Bowers (ship) CSS McRae; USS Merrimac (1864) USS Merrimack (1855) USS Meteor (1819) USS Milwaukee (1864) USS Mingo (1862) CSS Mississippi; USS Mississippi (1841) USS Monarch; USS Monitor; Montana (ship) Monticello (privateer) USS Morning Light; USS Mound City; CSS Muscogee
SS Kaiser Wilhelm II was a Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) Kaiser-class ocean liner.She was launched in 1902 in Stettin, Germany.In the First World War she was laid up in New York from 1914 until 1917, when the US Government seized her and renamed her USS Agamemnon.