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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 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
USS Indra United States Navy: 4 August 1992 Sunk as artificial reef. USS Iron Age United States Navy: 11 January 1864 Ran aground at Lockwood's Folly Inlet while attempting to refloat CSS Bendigo. [6] Isle of Iona United Kingdom: 14 December 1914 British cargo ship; wrecked near Hatteras Inlet. USCGC Jackson United States Coast Guard: September ...
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
USS Aeolus – Attack cargo ship converted into a cable repair ship SS Andrea Doria – Ocean liner sunk after a collision off Massachusetts in 1956 , Nantucket Sound . This dive is becoming less common, as the rapid deterioration of the wreck is making diving more difficult on top of the already treacherous dive to reach the vessel.
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.