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On 12 January 1808 Amphitrite, Colburn, master, was driven onshore at Ryde, but was gotten off without damage. [3] On 21 October 1808 as Amphitrite was sailing from Halifax to Bedec, New Brunswick, and London, she was driven on shore near Pictou, Nova Scotia. She was gotten off on 6 November, but then grounded again near Bedec.
There were only 465 survivors: 4 children (of 138), 41 women (of 310), 172 men (of 609), and 248 crew (of 420). The fact that most passengers were asleep at the time of the sinking (most not even awakened by the collision) also contributed to the loss of life when they were drowned in their cabins, most of them from the starboard side where the ...
Amphitrite (1791 ship) was launched at Scarborough. In 1793–1794 she served the British Royal Navy as a hired armed vessel. She was last listed in 1797. Amphitrite (1794 ship) was launched at Hamburg. She traded primarily between London and Hambro. A French privateer captured her in 1798. Amphitrite (1796 ship) was
Amphitrite on 1936 Australian stamp commemorating completion of submarine telephone cable to Tasmania. Amphitrite is the name of a genus of the worm family Terebellidae. In poetry, Amphitrite's name is often used for the sea, as a synonym of Thalassa. Seven ships of the Royal Navy were named HMS Amphitrite
The Amphitrite Fountain (German: Amphitrite-Brunnen; Polish: Fontanna Amfitryty), also known as the Amphitrite Monument (Polish: Pomnik Amfitryty), and the Felderhoff Fountain (German: Felderhoff-Brunnen; Polish: Fontanna Felderhoffa), was a Baroque Revival fountain sculpture in the city of Szczecin, Poland (then German Empire), placed at the intersection of current Independence Avenue ...
The USS Amesbury was at the invasion of Normandy in World War II.
A Japanese woman offers a prayer for victims of terrorist attacks on New York and Washington after laying flowers at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo September 12, 2001.
An image of Jenny Joseph modeling for a reference photo used by artist Michael Deas as the basis for the Columbia Pictures logo, shot in the New Orleans apartment of photographer Kathy Anderson ...