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West of the 1914 Battle Memorial in Stanley Harbour lies the wreck of the Jhelum. She was launched in Liverpool in the UK in 1849. The Jhelum suffered damage on its journey from Callao to Dunkirk around Cape Horn, while carrying a caro of guano for use as fertiliser. She limped into Stanley in 1870 where she was deserted by the crew who deemed her unsafe.
During the 1850s, the push for speed on the Great Lakes led to more wrecks than ever before. In the fall of 1854, ship owners and sailors reeled from the most costly season to date: 119 lives, 70 ships, and $2 million in property losses.
Defiance and John J. Audubon were victims of that dangerous year. On October 20, 1854, Audubon sailed north for Chicago with a load...
The Joseph S. Fay was a wooden steamer built in 1871 Quayle and Martin at Cleveland, Ohio. At the time of launch, the Fay was the largest ship ever built in Cleveland. She hit the rocks and sank at 40 Mile Point during a strong gale on October 19, 1905. Now, its lower hull -- still containing a load of iron ore -- sits in shallow water not far from shore, wh...
Kahala Barge was sunk for use as an artificial reef in roughly 90 feet of water, 250 yards off the Kahala Hilton. The wreck, a 200 foot Matson Barge, lies upright and intact with a pilothouse one can penetrate, this makes for amazing photos.
Shipwreck Beach (Kaiolohia) on the north shore of the island is a 6-mile stretch of coastline on Lanai where roughly a dozen vessels have grounded.
Two of the most easy to spot wrecks are the YOGN-42, a ferro-cement Navy fuel barge, and the YO-21, a massive Navy yard oiler that had been docked at Pearl Harbor during the 1941 attack.
USS YOG-42 was a gasoline barge b...
The Kensho Maru was a 116 metre-long passenger and cargo ship.
She was hit by a torpedo and came to rest upright at a depth of ~35 metres. The deck is at ~24 metres.
Map location is only an approximate location of the wreck.
Sank: 1930 - One of three dredgers built for the Bermuda Government, the King George is the only one that remains here. Work began on the 171-foot vessel in 1910 at the Glasgow yard of Lobnitz & Co., and she arrived in Bermuda on 28 June 1911. Approximately four months later, the King George was put to work dredging Town Cut. Her 30 buckets initially dredged to a ...
The Kiyosumi Maru was a 137 metre-long freighter with 6 holds. At the time of the attack, she was in the repair anchorage off Fefan Island and suffered hits by torpedoes and bombs from aircraft launched from the Yorktown and Enterprise. 43 crew were killed in the attack.
She came to rest on her port side at a depth of ~31 metres. The shallowest point is at ~19 metres...
The Kits (Kizugawa Maru), or Kitsugawa Maruα, is a World War II-era Japanese water tanker sunk in Apra Harbor, Guam. Damaged by Seahorse (SS-304) submarine torpedo attack off Guam on April 8, 1944, she was towed into port for repairs. In port, she was further damaged in three separate U.S. air attacks during the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign. Deemed irrepar...
The Kodiak Queen, a former Navy fuel barge (YO-44) that survived the attack on Pearl Harbor was purposely sunk on March 2017 to become an underwater art installation and new dive site in the British Virgin Islands.
Historian Mike Cochran found the ship rusting in a Road Town junkyard in 2012. He set up a website in an effort to rescue the ship. British photographer O...