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I think this is on Iwo-Jima Island.

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SS Minnow

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That's a really cool picture

SS Southern Cross
While the 132 men of the Newfoundland were stranded on the ice in the North Atlantic, a second sealing tragedy was unfolding to the south. In late March or early April 1914, the SS Southern Cross sank while returning to Newfoundland from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, taking with it 173 men.


SS Southern Cross, n.d.
In late March or early April 1914, the SS Southern Cross sank while returning to Newfoundland from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In this photograph, the sealing vessel is jammed in the ice in St. John's harbour and its crew is trying to pull it free.
Photographer unknown. Reproduced by permission of Archives and Special Collections (Coll. 115 16.04.003), Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.

On March 31, the coastal steamer SS Portia passed the Southern Cross near Cape Pine, off the southern Avalon Peninsula. Although the Portia was headed for St. Mary’s Bay to wait out a worsening blizzard, the Southern Cross, low in the water with its large cargo of seal pelts, seemed headed for Cape Race. The steamer was not seen again, and because no wireless equipment was on board, communication with other vessels was impossible.

However, popular consensus at the time suggested that the ship’s heavy cargo may have shifted suddenly in the stormy waves and capsized the steamer. In his book The Ice Hunters, Shannon Ryan also suggests that the ship’s captain, George Clarke, may have pressed through the storm because he was anxious for the recognition and the small prize traditionally awarded to the first arrival back from the seal hunt. Whatever the cause, the sinking of the Southern Cross resulted in more deaths than any other single disaster in Newfoundland and Labrador sealing history.

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In 1915, the government held a commission of enquiry to examine the Newfoundland and Southern Cross sealing disasters. Although it laid no criminal charges, the enquiry found Abram Kean, Westbury Kean, and George Tuff all guilty of errors in judgment. In Tuff’s case, the enquiry felt he should have refused the orders of Abram Kean, one of the most powerful men in the seal hunt, to return with his watch to the Newfoundland. More importantly, the commission recommended that all sealing vessels carry wireless sets, barometers, and thermometers, and that ship owners be held accountable for any injuries or deaths sustained by their crews. In 1916, the government passed legislation prohibiting sealers from being on the ice after dark and requiring all sealing ships to carry wireless equipment and flares. In response to theories that the Southern Cross sank because of overloading, the government also made it illegal for any ship to return from the hunt with more that 35,000 pelts.

my great grandfather George Clarke was the captain of this ship

In 1911 The Gundila sank, it's now 270 feet down. 200 feet long, the Scottish built ship is under Lake Superior.

It doesn't look badly damaged.

Piano in the lounge:

Beautiful!

Computer generated model of the Titanic sinking, by James Cameron.

The Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic and largest of the three (the other was The Olympic), it was the largest ship ship lost in the first world war when, operating as a hospital ship, it struck a mine and sunk. Jacques Cousteau discovered the wreck, 400 feet under water, in 1975. Of the 1,066 people on board at the time of the disaster, 1,036 were rescued.

At a depth of 18,000 feet, these are the first photos (taken this month) of the sunken Japanese carrier Agaki, which sustained battle damage by aircraft during the Battle Of Midway and was scuttled on June 5, 1942.

Found: 128 year old vessel at the bottom of Lake Huron.
Filmmakers in Bruce Peninsula 'accidentally' discover 128-year-old shipwreck

This is the City of Bangor, sunk in Lake Superior

City of Bangor was captained by William J. Mackin. On the night of November 30, 1926, Bangor was carrying 248 new Chrysler automobiles from Detroit, Michigan toDuluth, Minnesota, when a severe storm drove her onto the rocks of the Keweenaw Peninsula, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

The coastal steamer Maianbar runs aground at Nobbys in 1940

pasha bulker June 8, 2007

The Berbice ran aground at Stockton Tuesday 5th June 1888.


sygna it ran aground on Stockton Beach in Australia during a major storm in May 1974
this beach is the nursery for great white sharks

This is the bulk carrier SS MATAAAFA that was tossed about on west end of Lake Superior by 70 MPH winds and monstrous waves. Was attempting to get back into the harbor at Duluth, Minnesota on 28 Nov 1905 but tragically did not make it as it was slammed into the north pier. Report was that 9 crew members died of exposure while waiting for rescue the next day.

Builderguy said:

This is the bulk carrier SS MATAAAFA that was tossed about on west end of Lake Superior by 70 MPH winds and monstrous waves. Was attempting to get back into the harbor at Duluth, Minnesota on 28 Nov 1905 but tragically did not make it as it was slammed into the north pier. Report was that 9 crew members died of exposure while waiting for rescue the next day.

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Looks like that wasn't the end of the line though, the ship was repaired and continued on until the mid 1960s.

I thought this was pretty cool! A British ship "The Gundila" that ran around and sunk in 1911, Lake Superior. Rests in 270' of water and was dived on by a young 35 year old Becky Kagan Schott. Well done lady, well done indeed.
These are her images:

I thought it was pretty cool too. shipwrecks