The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.

Fischer describes P as " a damaged and reshapen European or American oar ", as are A ( which is European ash, Fraxinus excelsior ) and V ; says that wood from the wreck of a Western boat was said to have been used for many tablets ; and that both P and S had been recycled as planking for a Rapanui driftwood canoe.

* 22 March – Peter Revson, American F1 driver, killed in a wreck during the South African Grand Prix

Beneath Casey ’ s name, the following legend appeared: “ A famous ballad, the folklore of American railroading, and a postage stamp commemorate the colorful and courageous engineer who was killed in a wreck here in 1900.

Mel Fisher ( August 21, 1922 – December 19, 1998 ) was an American treasure hunter best known for finding the 1622 wreck of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha named after a shrine in Madrid for protection.

Despite the beginning of an Egyptian shift from a pro-Soviet to a pro-American orientation in 1972 ( under Egypt's new leader Anwar El Sadat ), rumors of imminent Soviet intervention on the Egyptians ' behalf during the 1973 Yom Kippur War brought about a massive American mobilization that threatened to wreck détente.

:" I have the honour to report that information has been received from Robert B. Campbell, Esq., United States Consul in London, of the wreck of the American ship ‘ Northern Belle ’ near Kingsgate, England, and the rescue of her crew by the aid of Lifeboats under circumstances of peculiar peril.

In 1972 the Maine Maritime Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology searched for and found the wreck of the Defence, a privateer that was part of the American fleet.

Probably the most famous American ten-wheeler is Illinois Central 382, the locomotive driven by Casey Jones in the wreck that was immortalized in Wallace Saunder's song.

Following the wreck of the United States ship and killing of the surviving crew by aborigines, the American Consul to Amoy Charles William Le Gendre quickly traveled to Foochow, arriving on 2 April 1867, to persuade the governor generals of Fukien and Chekiang to intervene and put pressure on the Chinese authorities in Taiwan to resolve the issue.

The resources protected by U. S. national marine sanctuaries range from coral reef ecosystems in Florida, Hawaii, and American Samoa to shipwrecks in Lake Huron and the wreck of the USS Monitor.

George Cleveland on Coats Island which were alleged to be the remains of Captain Arthur Gibbons and one of his officers, survivors of the wreck of the American whaling schooner A. T. Gifford.

Bugs is found reclining on a piece of ordnance, idly reading Victory Through Hare Power ( a parody of the extremely influential book Victory Through Air Power and its Disney film adaptation ) and laughing uproariously at the book's claim that gremlins wreck American planes with " di-a-bo-lick-al sab-oh-tay-jee " ( diabolical sabotage ).

In 1973, the wreck of the ironclad USS Monitor, made famous in the Battle of Hampton Roads in 1862 during the American Civil War was located on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean about 16 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

Nevertheless President Gowen seized the moment of high praise from American shareholders for " rescuing our property from bankruptcy against the malignant and determined efforts of its enemies and conspirators to foreclose and wreck it ," to remove himself from the official duties and pressures of president.

The American and Canadian military kept the location of the wreck secret, though the operation had been run openly and the general details were known to the public.

Curiously, when the American military first released information about the crash decades later, the documents falsely stated that the wreck had been found on distant Vancouver Island-possibly because 10 survivors picked up by the ' Cape Perry ' had been taken to Port Hardy and a photograph of them taken there.

Alonzo Sargent was an American locomotive engineer from Jackson, Michigan who was found to be responsible for one of the worst circus train wrecks in U. S. history, the Hammond circus train wreck near Hammond, Indiana on June 22, 1918, a tragedy which killed 86 persons and injured another 127.

" Shepard Smith, a news anchor for the Fox News Channel, referred to it as a "' 70s train wreck, combining the worst of Star Wars with the utter worst of variety television.

Professor Ian S. Holbourn, the last Laird of Foula, describes the disaster of 8 September 1914, when the White Star Line RMS Oceanic hit the Shaalds o ' Foula, becoming a wreck within two weeks.

Fatal accidents on the wreck of the White Star liner Celtic ( stranded on the Cow and Calf rocks, adjacent to Roches Point, off Cobh, Ireland in 1929 ), took some of the drive out of him, for he respected his workers and treated them accordingly.

The name Conestoga has also been applied to the Conestoga Rocket, a rocket produced from Minuteman I parts and launched from Matagorda Island, the ship Conestoga, which is a popular diving wreck in the Thousand Islands, the C-93 Conestoga cargo aircraft, and, in Star Trek, the name of the starship used in the failed first attempt at deep space colonization.

* March 19 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, reputed to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser ever built and owned by the real Rhett Butler, is discovered off the Isle of Palms, South Carolina, by teenage diver E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after she was sunk with a million dollar cargo while attempting to run past the Union blockade into Charleston.

Another major wreck lies on the opposite end of the island in the far southeast, the SS Wiltshire.

Grace Horsley Darling ( 24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842 ) was an English Victorian heroine who in 1838, along with her father, saved 13 people from the wreck of the SS Forfarshire.

* Yellow Submarine, nickname for Quester I, built in an attempt to salvage the wreck of the SS Andrea Doria

The wreck of the SS Vina, seen in 2010.

The wreck of the SS Vina, a cargo steamer built in 1894, can be seen at low tide.

The oldest was called James ; he died, travelling steerage to Australia, in the wreck of the SS British Admiral on 23 May 1874.

Among these are statues of Lord Stanley, poet Robert Burns, Olympic runner Harry Jerome, and President Harding ; plaques commemorating the wreck of the SS Beaver, the sinking of the Chehalis ( a tugboat that collided with the MV Princess Victoria off Stanley Park ), Pauline Johnson ’ s burial site, and the Salvation Army ; a replica of the RMS Empress of Japan figurehead ; a bronze statue of a Girl in a Wetsuit by Elek Imredy ; and a timber-and-stump archway that replaced the original Lumbermen ’ s Arch built by lumber workers immediately west of the Aquarium is accompanied by a planting of Japanese maple and flowering cherry and other plants from Japan.

Another wreck off Espiritu Santo, the SS President Coolidge, is also a popular diving spot.

Part of the lighthouse station houses the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, which includes artifacts from the above shipwrecks and information on the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

The wreck of the SS Orizaba ( 1886 – 1905 ) lies just north, between the cape and Garden Island.

The museum exhibits artifacts from shipwrecks from the Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve and the bell from the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

On July 4, 1995, the GLSHS participated in the salvage of the bell from the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Residents highlight the hazards presented by the presence of the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery with its 1, 400 tonnes of explosives, just off the Nore, and the natural gas terminals that import and temporarily store 20 % of the UK's natural gas.

There are two wreck protected under Section 2 of the Act, the SS Richard Montgomery and the SS Castilian.

The suit achieved fame during the salvage of gold and silver bullion from the wreck of the SS Egypt, an 8, 000 ton Peninsular and Oriental liner that sank in May 1922.

* Emergency work, which called him away from Winchester, on the wreck of the SS Dordone in Newport.

SS Edmund Fitzgerald, famous for her wreck in 1975, was constructed close to Seawaymax size.

It has been observed at a depth of by a submersible investigating the wreck of the SS Central America.

The wreck of the SS Vina ( 2010 )

The wreck that can be seen off the harbour is the coaster SS Vina which was used for target practice by the RAF before sinking in 1944.

The lyrics relate to the themes of the film, as a band of passengers survive the capsizing of the ship SS Poseidon and have to escape the sinking wreck.

Although some plans were already underway to improve the infrastructure, the public outcry which followed the wreck of the SS Valencia in January 1906 spurred the Canadian government to undertake a comprehensive plan for improvements.