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The Mary D. Hume was a steamer built at Gold Beach, Oregon in 1881, by R. D. Hume, a pioneer and early businessman in that area. Gold Beach was then called Ellensburg. The Hume had a long career, first hauling goods between Oregon and San Francisco, then as a whaler in Alaska, as a service vessel in the Alaskan cannery trade, then as a tugboat. She was retired in 1977...
Along the Akrotiri Peninsula is the partially sunken Mav Achaios ship (aka Akrotiri Shipwreck). The ship was originally built in 1932. In the 1970s, it was due to transport wood on a route towards Saudi Arabia, but a severe storm swept through the ship. She ran aground in the Akrotiri peninsula and sunk, though all the crew made it off the ship alive.
Pacific Island beach with rusty WWII US military hardware & off-shore wreckage for scuba diving. Apparently at the end of the war, the equipment which was too expensive to ship back to the US was up for sale pennies on the dollar. The British and French did not want to pay expecting that the US would leave and they could just scoop it all up for free. So the US de...
At the edge of the Mjóifjörður fjord is an old WWII US Navy LCM (Landing craft). A farmer bought it from an American surplus sale after the war. After many years of ue it was left where it rest now.
Molasses Reef is a coral reef located within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. It lies to the southeast of Key Largo, within the Key Largo Existing Management Area, which is immediately to the east of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. This reef is within a Sanctuary Preservation Area (SPA).
Molasses Reef is a popular scuba diving and snorkeling location ...
On the night of November 23, 1907, the freighter Monohansett hid behind Thunder Bay Island to avoid gale-force winds sweeping across Lake Huron. Shortly after 10:00 p.m., alarms sounded when one of the crew members reported fire. An oil lantern had tipped over, and a blaze quickly spread. It was the crew’s worst nightmare—the Monohansett&rsq...
Captain Burns seemed to hate to leave the boat and was the last man over the side. He stood on the deck after all the rest of us had left, with the flames just a few feet distant, and counted the men in the boat several times to make sure that none was left on that floating furnace.” - James St. Andre, Montana assistant engineer.
Built for speed, the 236-foot s...
Mo‘ynoq, also spelled as Muynak and Moynaq, is a city in northern Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan. Formerly a sea port, now home to only a few thousand residents at most, Mo‘ynoq's population has been declining precipitously since the 1980s due to the recession of the Aral Sea.
Once a bustling fishing community and Uzbekistan's only port city with ten...
The Antilla is World War II shipwreck off the coast of Aruba that is a popular snorkeling and scuba diving destination.
When Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, the relationship between the two nations was obviously strained. As part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, this extended to Aruba. TheAntillawas a German U-boat supply ship that was anchored off ...
Praia de Atalanta is a beach on the north coast of the island of Boa Vista in Cape Verde. This large wrecked cargo ship from 1968 sits directly offshore from this broad, windswept beach. It is approximately 6 km northeast of the island capital of Sal Rei and 3 km west of Vigía. The beach forms a part of Boa Esperança Nature Reserve which also includes th...
The MS Mediterranean Sky (previously MS City of York) was a combination-passenger liner built in 1953 for Ellerman Lines' service between London and South Africa. Sold in 1971 to Karageorgis Lines, she was converted to a cruiseferry and renamed .
TheCity of Yorkwas built by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering of Barrow-in-Furness in the United Kingdom. Along with her...
MS Mikhail Lermontov was an ocean liner owned by the Soviet Union's Baltic Shipping Company, built in 1972 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany. It was later converted into a cruise ship. On 16 February 1986 it ran aground on rocks near Port Gore in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, and sank, resulting in the death of one crew member.
MS Mikhail Ler...