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2 unusual facts about Shipwreck!


Patrick Hrabe

He is the creator of Hey, Shipwreck (a series about U.S. Navy submariners) and Join the Navy* (a comic about U.S. Navy recruiting).

Sinking

Shipwreck (foundering), what remains of a ship that has wrecked, either sunk or beached


Abandoned Shipwrecks Act

One example of this is Mel Fisher and his highly publicized treasure hunting expeditions off the coast of Florida for the Spanish galleons Nuestra Senora de Atocha and the Santa Margarita.

Action of 1 November 1944

The shipwreck of TA 20 was found by Italian wreck divers in 1999, she lies on a part of sea floor near a commercial trawling zone, and is regularly obscured by large quantities of silt.

Adam Schmitt

He has worked with Tommy Keene, Eric Voeks, Richard Lloyd, Common Loon, Megan Johns, Unbunny, The Dirty Feathers, Elsinore, The Hathaways, and Shipwreck.

Agde

The symbol of the city, the bronze Ephebe of Agde, of the 4th century BCE, recovered from the fluvial sands of the Hérault, was joined in December 2001 by two Early Imperial Roman bronzes, of a child and of Eros, which had doubtless been on their way to a villa in Gallia Narbonensis when they were lost in a shipwreck.

Alderney Society Museum

One recent example included the June 2009 through December 2009 loan of pieces from the Alderney Elizabethan Shipwreck, such as cannonballs, breastplate, helmet, and tobacco pipes, to the Guernsey Museums & Galleries in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey.

Archytas

Archytas may have drowned in a shipwreck in the shore of Mattinata, where his body lay unburied on the shore until a sailor humanely cast a handful of sand on it.

Bispham Parish Church

The churchyard contains the tombs of many shipwreck victims, including the captain and crew of the brig Favourite, which sank off Blackpool in 1865, and passengers from the Ocean Monarch, which caught fire in the Irish Sea in 1848.

Butterworth Stavely

Twain based his story on one sentence in a naval report by Admiral Algernon Frederick Rous de Horsey: "One stranger, an American, has settled on the island – a doubtful acquisition," which probably referred to Peter Butler, a survivor of the 1875 Khandeish shipwreck.

Clelia

The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution submersible used to extract the bell from the shipwreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Dudley W. Morton

Unlike German submariner Heinz-Wilhelm Eck, who was executed as a war criminal for ordering the killing of civilian shipwreck survivors, Morton did not face any criminal liability for his alleged actions.

Emory Kristof

Kristof has participated in multiple undersea expeditions with Canadian explorers Joseph MacInnis and Phil Nuytten, including the exploration of the Breadalbane, the world's northernmost known shipwreck, and the 1995 expedition to recover the bell from the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

False Cape

False Cape is located along the section of ocean adjacent to North Carolina and a small portion of Virginia known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic due to the many shipwrecks.

Flannan Isle

The poem Flannan Isle is quoted by Tom Baker as the Doctor at the end of the Doctor Who story Horror of Fang Rock, which was set on a lighthouse and involved an alien explanation for the tragedy that befell the three keepers there and survivors of a shipwreck.

Francisco de los Cobos y Molina

One sad note was the loss during a shipwreck of a large assembly of Italian works, including a Pietá by Sebastiano del Piombo and a series of paintings from the City council of Lucca.

Francisco Núñez Melián

In 1626, he led an expedition to locate the wrecks of the two ships Nuestra Señora de Atocha and Santa Margarita.

Garden Key Light

Ernest Hemingway's 1932 short story "After the Storm" is about a shipwreck between Garden Key and Rebecca Shoal, to the east of Garden Key.

Goldcliff Priory

In 1334 the prior Phillip Gopillarius ("Philip de Gopylers") was charged—along with a monk, some clergy and fifty other persons from Newport, Nash, Goldcliff, Clevedon and Portishead—with stealing wine and other merchandise from a vessel wrecked at Goldcliff.

Hendrick Hamel

36 of the 64 members of the crew survived the shipwreck, and the men were promptly taken into custody and sent to Seoul (where the king was Hyojong of Joseon, who ruled from 1649 to 1659).

Inger!

Inger Krogh was a Norwegian exchange student coming to America after World War II, and this account begins when James Sites (a merchant mariner for the US at the time) first meets her at sea following a shipwreck.

Jean Gaspard de Vence

Then returned to the merchant navy and in 1767 aboard the ship «L'Auguste» take a cruise along the coast of Africa, near Cape St. Philip was in a shipwreck more than four months and get to Marseille, losing half the team from scurvy.

Jervis Bay Territory

Survivors of the Sydney Cove shipwreck in 1797 reached the area by foot, heading to Port Jackson.

Johanna Angermeyer

Angermeyer's father Johannes Angermeyer and his four brothers, all artists and musicians, sailed from Hitler’s Germany in 1935 to the Galapagos but, after shipwreck off the coast of England, only four of the five made it to the then sparsely inhabited Enchanted Islands where they lived like Robinson Crusoes.

John Sen Inches Thomson

In 1877, Inches Thomson and his crew were sailing on the Bencleugh when she shipwrecked during a terrific gale off Macquarie Island, Tasmania, Australia.

Keweenaw Underwater Preserve

One of the most recent large boats on the Great Lakes to be a total loss, the former United States Coast Guard cutter Mesquite, grounded off Keweenaw in 1989 and is now a diveable wreck in this preserve.

Kizilburun shipwreck

The Kizilburun shipwreck would seem to be part of Augustus’ plan to leave Rome, the city he found brick, a city of marble.

Lionel Casson

In a 2005 speech to the Archaeological Institute of America accepting its Gold Medal, Casson recalled a trip to Southern France in 1953 when he had the opportunity to visit Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who was performing an investigation of an ancient shipwreck.

Little Holm, Yell Sound

In 1983, the Royal Navy cleared ordnance from the area, and their bomb disposal team discovered an unrecorded shipwreck nearby.

Marc Guylaine

In 2008, Lighthouse Productions contracted filmmaker Paul-Émile d'Entremont to film a documentary seeking the wreckage of the Lady Dorianne, which was theorised to be sitting 240 feet beneath sea level, as the only known shipwreck in the area.

Mercury Island

Survivors from the wartime shipwreck SS Point Pleasant Park landed on the island in 1944 before being rescued by a South African fishing boat.

MV Monte Cervantes

Another member of the Monte class is the Monte Sarmiento, named for the liner which helped rescue the passengers stranded in Ushuaia following the shipwreck of the original Monte Cervantes in 1930.

Nantucket Life-Saving Museum

The Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum of Nantucket, Massachusetts is a small, seasonal, non-profit museum dedicated to the history of shipwrecks off the Nantucket coast and in Nantucket Sound.

Norman Studios

Later films produced by Norman Studios include The Love Bug (1919); The Bull-Dogger (1921), a western; The Crimson Skull (1922), another western; Regeneration (1923), an action adventure set on an island after a shipwreck; The Flying Ace (1926), Norman’s most famous film; and Black Gold (1928), a drama set around the oil business.

Peter Throckmorton

The Cape Gelidonya shipwreck (circa 1200 BC) was discovered by Throckmorton in 1959 using information provided him by Kemal Aras, a sponge diver from Bodrum, Turkey who had first seen parts of the vessel's cargo of bronze ingots in 1954, but who had failed to recognize that it was actually a bronze age shipwreck and thus its archaeological importance.

Petrus Michaelis Fecht

During a trip to Rome Fecht drowned in a shipwreck off the island of Bornholm.

Rose de Freycinet

The expedition brought back a great number of scientific specimens, including minerals, plants, insects, animals, despite the shipwreck of the Uranie in 1820 in the Falkland Islands.

Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky

The shipwreck was the topic of a great deal of local and international reporting at the time, and is the subject of a major exhibition at the Lemvig Museum.

Rusticle

They may be familiar from underwater photographs of shipwrecks, such as the RMS Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck.

Sam Sejavka

Sam also appeared in a number of highly popular stage productions including: The Death of Peter Pan, Quintessence and Shipwreck!, all directed by Robert Chuter and produced at La Mama Theatre.

Seduction

Eve herself was verbally seduced by the serpent, believed in Christianity to be Satan; the Sirens of Greek mythology lured sailors to their death by singing them to shipwreck; Cleopatra beguiled both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, Dionysus was the Greek God of Seduction and wine, and Persian queen Scheherazade saved herself from execution by story-telling.

Skeleton Coast

The fictional plot of the 1968 movie "A Twist of Sand" involves diamonds hidden in a shipwreck buried in the sand dunes of the Skeleton Coast.

SS Ellengowan

Ellengowan remained a shipwreck for four years until she was eventually raised in 1885 by Charles Stuart Copeland, who intended to use the vessel to supply camps along the Roper and McArthur Rivers.

The Kadakkarapally Boat

The Kadakkarapally Boat is a shipwreck found near Kadakkarappally, in the Southern India state of Kerala.

Thomas William Bowlby

Lord Elgin and Baron Gros were his fellow passengers in the steamship SS Malabar, which sank in Galle harbor on 22 May 1860 after being beached in a severe storm; his report of the shipwreck was considered one of his best pieces of work.

Um El Faroud

The wreck sits upright on the sandy seabed southwest of Wied iz-Zurrieq near Qrendi.

Union of South Africa King's Medal for Bravery

The winning entry, by Miss Renee Joubert, depicted 18th-century Cape hero Wolraad Woltemade on his horse, rescuing shipwreck survivors from a stormy sea.

William Falconer

(from The Shipwreck, Canto I) were used as a motto for Tafereel van de overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla in de jaren 1596 en 1597 (1820) by the Dutch poet Hendrik Tollens (1780–1856).


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