After thorough discussion at the meeting of the Cabinet, and because it is felt that there is no reason for withholding the following facts from the public, this information is given out: The S.S. Iroquois, formerly in our coastwise trade, was…
The remains of a U.S. Navy sailor from northwest Iowa, who died as a prisoner of war during World War II, have been identified after more than 82 years. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said the remains belong to Robert Glenn…
Hundreds of years after it vanished beneath the Caribbean, the world’s most valuable shipwreck is finally giving something back. A handful of small objects have reached the surface, and with them comes a question nobody expected: was this really the…
There were 2,429 press releases posted in the last 24 hours and 501,985 in the last 365 days. The U-boat that dropped two Nazi saboteurs on the Maine coast sank this ship four days later. Now divers have found it. PORTSMOUTH, NH, UNITED STATES,…
In mid-July, off the coast of Mount Desert Island, a group of volunteer divers made a historic discovery: the final resting place of a Canadian merchant ship torpedoed by a German U-boat that had just landed two Nazi spies in…
With a centralmaine.com subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. The SS Cornwallis was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when it was sunk by a German U-boat in the Gulf of Maine in December 1944, claiming…
Almost 82 years ago, a steamship laden with barrels of molasses and bags of sugar set sail from Barbados, bound for Saint John, N.B. SS Cornwallis was an impressive sight: 400 feet long, 50 feet wide at the beam, and almost 5,500 tons. Also on…
About a year after the Bontang base, the Arun base began production in August 1978, and finally, the first drop was produced. The first LNG ship shipped from the Arun base's Blang Lancang Port, like the one from Bontang, was the…
Home - Science - Marine archaeologists from Sweden’s Vrak museum made the first dives in decades on Kantinen, a barge that sank in Lake Hugn in 1808 carrying five heavy cannons, and the guns were nowhere in sight Marine archaeologists from Vrak, Sweden’s…
December 7, 2023 / 5:14 PM EST / AP Ira "Ike" Schab had just showered, put on a clean sailor's uniform and closed his locker aboard the USS Dobbin when he heard a call for a fire rescue party. He went topside to see the…
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