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The Q-ship attacked at Batfish with 4-inch (102 mm) guns and depth charges. Batfish dived and steadied up somewhere between her test depth and her crush depth to hide. After several hours, she began to withdraw from the area and slowly rose to the surface, where she found herself alone.
As of 2019, Galveston is the fourth-busiest cruise ship homeport in North America [18] and one of the top 10 homeports in the world. [24] Over the years, the port has welcomed ships from major cruise lines including Carnival Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Disney Cruise Lines, and Norwegian Cruise Lines. [20]
The Mansfield Cut Underwater Archeological District contains three Spanish shipwrecks caused by a 1554 storm off the southern Texas Gulf Coast near the Mansfield Cut. While the exact location of the site is unpublished, the three shipwrecks were found near the Padre Island National Seashore.
Cruise lines are increasingly sailing out of Texas' only cruise port, the Port of Galveston. Galveston saw a record 384 cruises and 1.7 million guests in 2024 — half a million more than in 2023.
MSC Cruises is headed to Texas.. The cruise line’s MSC Seascape ship will offer sailings from Galveston beginning next year. The new homeport marks a continued investment in the American market ...
The Port of Galveston has a new resident. Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Jubilee ship will begin sailing from the Texas city on Saturday, marking the debut of the line’s third Excel class ...
The deep water Brownsville Ship Channel, to/from the Gulf of Mexico, passes between Padre Island and Brazos Island, Barrier islands of the Gulf Coast. The channel also passes the old harbor of Los Brazos de Santiago, the landing place of the Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519 and subsequent colonizers from the Viceroyalty of New ...
Cruise ships started to exceed ocean liners in size and capacity in the mid-1990s; [2] before then, few were more than 50,000 GT. [3] In the decades since the size of the largest vessels has more than doubled. [4] There have been nine or more new cruise ships added every year since 2001, most of which are 100,000 GT or greater. [5]