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USS South Dakota (BB-57) was the lead vessel of the four South Dakota-class fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1930s. The first American battleships designed after the Washington treaty system began to break down in the mid-1930s, the South Dakotas were able to take advantage of a treaty clause that allowed them to increase the main battery to 16-inch (406 mm) guns.
Ship Flag Sunk date Notes Coordinates Alaska Ranger United States 23 March 2008 A factory ship that flooded and sank off Unalaska: Al-Ki: 1 November 1917 A passenger steamer, wrecked on Point Augusta.
During the Battle of the Philippine Sea, a D4Y dive bomber hit South Dakota with a 500 lb bomb, disabling a 40 mm mount, killing twenty-four and wounding another seventy-seven men. After receiving repairs at Puget Sound, she rejoined the fleet.
South Carolina 14 January 1986: Patriot's Point: 65: Lane Victory (Victory ship) California 14 December 1990: 66: Lettie G. Howard: New York 11 April 1989: South Street Seaport Museum: 67: USS Lexington: Texas 31 July 2003: 68: Lewis R. French: Maine 4 December 1991: 69: Lightship No. 87, "Ambrose" New York 11 April 1989: at South Street ...
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.
A wide area of freezing rain created dangerous travel conditions in the Midwest and Plains Saturday morning with dozens of crashes reported, and hours-long closures of major interstates.
The wreck was found 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of Boulder Reef and just south of Gull Island lying at a depth of 360 to 370 feet (110 to 110 m). [53] Later in 1959, Carl D. Bradley ' s owners, U.S. Steel, hired Los Angeles-based Global Marine Exploration Company to survey the wreck using the underwater television from the USS Submarex.
SS Selah Chamberlain was a wooden-hulled Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Michigan in 1886, 6 miles (10 km) off the coast of Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States after being rammed by the steamer John Pridgeon Jr. with the loss of five lives. [2]