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The White Ship (French: la Blanche-Nef; Medieval Latin: Candida navis) was a vessel transporting many nobles, including the heir to the English throne, that sank in the English Channel near the Normandy coast off Barfleur during a trip from France to England on 25 November 1120. [1]
The White Ship disaster on 25 November 1120 (called 7 kalends of December by Farrer [1]) claimed the lives of numerous high-ranking people of Norman England.
SS Atlantic was a transatlantic ocean liner of the White Star Line, and second ship of the Oceanic-class. The ship operated between Liverpool, United Kingdom, and New York City, United States. During the ship's 19th voyage, on 1 April 1873, she struck rocks and sank off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, killing at
In 1120, the White Ship, carrying Prince William, son of Henry I of England with three hundred fellow passengers: 140 knights and 18 noblewomen; his half-brother, Richard; his half-sister, Matilda the Countess of Perche; his cousins, Matilda of Blois; the nephew of the German Emperor Henry V; the young Earl of Chester and most of the heirs to ...
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The White Ship was fast, of the best construction and had recently been fitted with new materials, which made the captain and crew confident they could reach England first. [2] However, when the ship set off in the dark, its port side struck a submerged rock and the ship quickly capsized and sank. [5]
The never-before-heard audio clip published online Friday captures staticky white noise followed by a loud boom and reverb -- and then the static again. ... reaching the Titanic wreck site on the ...
The schooner disappeared en route to Cleveland with a load of limestone. Both occupants fell overboard and drowned; their bodies washed ashore just west of Cleveland. The ship was discovered in 2016 and identified in 2019. She is the oldest-confirmed shipwreck in Lake Erie. Little Wissahickon: 10 July 1896 Sank off Rondeau Point