when did the peter iredale wreck?
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Hammond, Oregon: Peter Iredale, the Tourist-Friendly Shipwreck Shipwreck of the Peter Iredale. The Peter Iredale shipwrecked on the Oregon Coast in 1906. No one was able to remove the boat, so it just stayed there. Over the last 101 years it has slowly deteriorated. You can still see a very large piece of it.
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St. Lawrence River 0 0 Jan 6, 2011 in St. Lawrence River. The Sir Robert Peel was a side wheel passenger steamer built at Brockville, Ontario in 1837. While tied up to the dock in 1838 a raiding party dress up as indians captured her, robbed the passengers, and then set the ship on fire.
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The Hindenburg disaster In This Day in History video clip: On May 3, 1937, The airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, bursts into flames upon touching its mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers and crewmembers.
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald The sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, November 10, 1975, from the University of Wisconsin Yesterday's news, November 10, 1975: Edmund Fitzgerald reported missing from the Minneapolis Star Tribune
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The captain goes down with the ship 1 September 27, 1854: James F. Luce was in command of the Collins Line steamer SS Arctic when it collided with SS Vesta off the coast of Newfoundland. 2  Captain Luce regained the surface after initially going down with the ship.
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there.
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Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum The bell from the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. Museum: the GLSHS opened its first museum exhibits to the public in 1985. In 1986, the society secured funds and constructed the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located at the Whitefish Point Light Station 11 miles (18 km) north of Paradise in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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More information about: Thomas Andrews In 1907, he was appointed managing director of Harland and Wolff. In December 1908, work began on Olympic and Titanic, the first of the Olympic class of liners conceived by his uncle, Lord Pirrie. Over the next two years, he saw his plans for both ships come to life on the Harland and Wolff slipways.Tommie had married Helen Reilly Barbour earlier that year.n 1907, he was appointed managing director of Harland and Wolff. In December 1908, work began on Olympic and Titanic, the first of the Olympic class of liners conceived by his uncle, Lord Pirrie. Over the next two years, he saw his plans for both ships come to life on the Harland and Wolff slipways.
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Kursk submarine disaster Location relative to Murmansk Oblast, Russia. The Kursk submarine disaster, the sinking of the Oscar-class submarine (Russian: Project 949A антей) Kursk, took place during the first major Russian naval exercise in more than ten years, in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000, killing all 118 personnel on board.
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald's wiki: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is a song written, composed, and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to commemorate the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. Lightfoot drew his in
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- The damaged oil tanker Exxon Valdez, towed out of Alaska's Prince William Sound by a tugboat and a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter, on June 23, 1989. On March 24, 1989, the tanker ran hard aground on Bligh Reef, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the sound -- at the time, the largest oil spill disaster in U.S. history.
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- Synopsis. April 10, 1912: the RMS Titanic sets out from London on her maiden voyage, across the Atlantic. Billed as “The Largest Floating Object in The World,” the Titanic is already big news. April 15, 1912: Titanic, the “unsinkable” ship, sinks, killing over 1500 men, women and children.
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- Tom Fischer of Evansville, Ind.,looks over the Edmund Fitzgerald bell on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Whitefish Point, Mich., June 29, 2005.
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WWII Veteran Recalls Surviving 1945 Shipwreck, Shark Attacks PHOTO GALLERY: USS Indianapolis Survivor Verlin Buzz Fortin. Photos of the USS Indianapolis before it was sunk in 1945 by Japanese torpedoes, and one of the survivors on the 69th anniversary of the sinking. The ship's SOS signal was ignored. The 900 men who weren't killed in the explosion floated in the water for five days.
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How Titanic was almost stopped from its doomed voyage: Letter from the ship reveals it narrowly missed colliding with another ship in harbour - which would have stopped its maiden Atlantic crossing Collision was narrowly avoided as the ship was leaving Southampton. Letter, from Titanic's chief engineer to his son, says 'it looked like trouble'. The crash would have delayed departure and changed the course of history. More than 1,500 died when the ship hit an iceberg and sank in April, 1912. Letter was auctioned today and sold for £24,000 - twice its estimated value.
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THE ANDREA DORIA TRAGEDY HAPPENED 57 YEARS AGO Social History and Cruise History. Looking back to July 25, 1956. The 57th Memorial Anniversary of the sinking of the Andrea Doria. The first SOS reached the Coast Guard station in East Moriches, Long Island, and an armada of ships were dispatched to rescue more than 700 passengers.
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- Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Branching Coral and Soldier Fish on the Great Barrier Reef ( Pniesen | Dreamstime.com) Just before 11 pm on June 11th, 1770, the HMS Endeavour, captained by Lieutenant James Cook, ran aground. Cook had been exploring the northeast coast of Australia when the accident occurred.
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The Great M9.2 Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami of March 27, 1964 The map shows the epicenter of the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake (red star), caused when the Pacific Plate lurched northward underneath the North American Plate. Scientific Background. Science Features: The 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake & Tsunami. It was the largest U.S. earthquake ever recorded, and a turning point in earth science.
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Palos Verdes Peninsula Wrecks. 1  The wreck of the SS Dominator, a freighter that ran aground in 1961, was for years an attraction for those willing to hike down the cliffs to the shoreline. Very little is left of the ship today. 2  In 2006, the 45-foot cabin cruiser Lady Hawk sank two miles from the Palos Verdes coast due to an engine fire.
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403 Forbidden But the wreck everyone remembers is the Edmund Fitzerald. Forty years ago this week, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank to the bottom of Lake Superior, carrying 29 men to their deaths on Nov. 10, 1975. It's recalled, in part, because it's the most recent disaster on the Great Lakes.
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- AP and John Gaps III/AP. 1  An oil-soaked bird is examined in April 1989 in Prince William Sound, Alaska. 2  Workers wash a rescued sea otter on April 18, 1989. 3  Clean-up workers demonstrate how to wash crude oil off the shore, which became one of the most painstaking aspects of the spill, on the beach of Block Island on April 17, 1989.
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- USS Forrestal Fire. The 1967 USS Forrestal fire was a devastating fire and series of chain-reaction explosions on 29 July 1967 that killed 134 sailors and injured 161 on the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CV-59), after an unusual electrical anomaly discharged a Zuni rocket on the flight deck.
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14 Surprising Facts About the Titanic Canceled Lifeboat Drill. Originally, a lifeboat drill was scheduled to take place on board the Titanic on April 14, 1912 - the day the Titanic hit the iceberg. However, for an unknown reason, Captain Smith canceled the drill. Many believe that had the drill taken place, more lives could have been saved. Only Seconds.
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List of Sonic the Hedgehog characters Developed as a replacement for their existing Alex Kidd mascot, as well as Sega's response to Mario, his first appearance was in the arcade game, Rad Mobile (as a cameo), before making his official debut in Sonic the Hedgehog (1991).
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- About 1915 EST., on November 10, 1975, the Great Lakes bulk cargo vessel SS EDMUND. FITZGERALD, fully loaded with a cargo of taconite pellets, sank in eastern Lake Superior in. position 46 59.91 N, 85 06.6’W, approximately 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay, Michigan. The ship was en route from Superior, WI, to Detroit, MI, and had been proceeding at a. reduced speed in a severe storm.
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USS Hamilton (DMS 18) USS Hamilton picks up 25 survivors from the American tanker Byron D. Benson that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-552 off Currituck Inlet, North Carolina in position 36°08'N, 75°32'W.