135 relations: Amaryllis (ship), Ameland, Antarctic Peninsula, Antwerp, Argyll, Artificial reef, Atlantic College Lifeboat Station, Atlantic Ocean, Azores, Ísafjörður, Baja California, Ballistic missile submarine, Barrett Reef, Bay of Biscay, Bembridge, Black Sea, Brăila, British T-class submarine, Bulk carrier, Buoy tender, Busan, California, Campbeltown, Canouan, Cape Farewell, Greenland, Cargo liner, Cargo ship, Carrier battle group, Casablanca, Casco-class cutter, Constanța, Cyclone, Da Nang, Dakar, Dardanelles, Deep-submergence vehicle, Depth charge, Destroyer, Destroyer escort, Djibouti (city), Dredging, DSV Alvin, Eastbourne, Ensenada, Buenos Aires, Ferry, Florida, France, French submarine Minerve (S647), Frigate, Gibraltar, ..., Gio Linh District, Gironde, Gironde estuary, Golf-class submarine, Goodwin Sands, Guided missile destroyer, Hawaii, Heavy cruiser, HMS Caicos (K505), Hull triple trawler tragedy (1968), Iceland, Isle of Wight, John C. Butler-class destroyer escort, Key West, Las Palmas, Liberty ship, Light cruiser, Lion Island, Palmer Archipelago, Long Island, Marine insurance, Mark 16 torpedo, Mayday, Mediterranean Sea, Mexico, Mindanao, Missile, Mississippi River, MT Sitakund, Nantucket, Natal (province), Nautical mile, Naval mine, Netherlands, New York (state), New York City, New Zealand, Orkney, Osaka, Pacific Ocean, Palmer Archipelago, Panama Canal, Porthcawl Lifeboat Station, Research vessel, River Clyde, Riviera Beach, Florida, Roll-on/roll-off, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Diego, San Francisco, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Schiermonnikoog, Schooner, Scuttling, Ship, Sittwe, South China Sea, South Georgia Island, South Vietnam, Spain, Sri Lanka, ST Empire Ace, Steeple Rock, Sule Skerry, Survey vessel, Sussex, Taiwan, Tanker (ship), Tet Offensive, Toulon, Triệu Phong District, Turkey, Typhoon, Union Company, United States Coast Guard, United States Navy, United States Pacific Fleet, USS Absecon (AVP-23), Vado Ligure, Viet Cong, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Virginia, Wellington Harbour, White Castle, Louisiana, Zamboanga City. Expand index (85 more) »
Amaryllis (ship)
Amaryllis was a cargo ship built in 1945 at Burrard Dry Dock in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Ameland
Ameland (West Frisian: It Amelân) is a municipality and one of the West Frisian Islands off the north coast of the Netherlands.
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Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica, located at the base of the Southern Hemisphere.
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Antwerp
Antwerp (Antwerpen, Anvers) is a city in Belgium, and is the capital of Antwerp province in Flanders.
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Argyll
Argyll (archaically Argyle, Earra-Ghàidheal in modern Gaelic), sometimes anglicised as Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland.
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Artificial reef
An artificial reef is a man-made underwater structure, typically built to promote marine life in areas with a generally featureless bottom, to control erosion, block ship passage, or improve surfing.
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Atlantic College Lifeboat Station
Atlantic College Lifeboat Station (based in Atlantic College, South Wales, a United World College) opened in 1963 as one of the first experimental inshore lifeboat stations established by the RNLI.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Azores
The Azores (or; Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal.
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Ísafjörður
Ísafjörður (pronounced, meaning ice fjord or fjord of ice, ice in plural genitive) is a town in the northwest of Iceland.
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Baja California
Baja CaliforniaSometimes informally referred to as Baja California Norte (North Lower California) to distinguish it from both the Baja California Peninsula, of which it forms the northern half, and Baja California Sur, the adjacent state that covers the southern half of the peninsula.
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Ballistic missile submarine
A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine capable of deploying submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) with nuclear warheads.
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Barrett Reef
The cluster of rocks that is Barrett Reef (often known as Barrett's Reef) is one of the most hazardous reefs in New Zealand.
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Bay of Biscay
The Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne, Golfo de Vizcaya, Pleg-mor Gwaskogn, Bizkaiko Golkoa) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea.
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Bembridge
Bembridge is a village and civil parish located on the easternmost point of the Isle of Wight.
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Black Sea
The Black Sea is a body of water and marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Western Asia.
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Brăila
Brăila (Βράιλα; Turkish: İbrail) is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of Brăila County.
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British T-class submarine
The Royal Navy's T class (or Triton class) of diesel-electric submarines was designed in the 1930s to replace the O, P, and R classes.
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Bulk carrier
A bulk carrier, bulk freighter, or colloquially, bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo, such as grains, coal, ore, and cement in its cargo holds.
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Buoy tender
A buoy tender is a type of vessel used to maintain and replace navigational buoys.
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Busan
Busan, formerly known as Pusan and now officially is South Korea's second most-populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.5 million inhabitants.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Campbeltown
Campbeltown; (Ceann Loch Chille Chiarain or Ceann Locha) is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
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Canouan
Canouan (pronounced "can - ah - wan") is an island in the Grenadines Islands belonging to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
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Cape Farewell, Greenland
Cape Farewell (Nunap Isua; Kap Farvel) is a headland on the southern shore of Egger Island, Nunap Isua Archipelago, Greenland.
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Cargo liner
A cargo liner is a type of merchant ship which carries general cargo and often passengers.
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Cargo ship
A cargo ship or freighter ship is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another.
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Carrier battle group
A carrier battle group (CVBG) consists of an aircraft carrier (designated CV) and its large number of escorts, together defining the group.
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Casablanca
Casablanca (ad-dār al-bayḍāʾ; anfa; local informal name: Kaẓa), located in the central-western part of Morocco bordering the Atlantic Ocean, is the largest city in Morocco.
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Casco-class cutter
The Casco class was a large class of United States Coast Guard cutters in commission from the late 1940s through the late 1980s.
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Constanța
Constanța (Κωνστάντζα or Κωνστάντια, Konstantia, Кюстенджа or Констанца, Köstence), historically known as Tomis (Τόμις), is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Romania.
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Cyclone
In meteorology, a cyclone is a large scale air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure.
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Da Nang
Da Nang (Đà Nẵng) is the fourth largest city in Vietnam after Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Hanoi and Haiphong in terms of urbanization and economy.
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Dakar
Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal.
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Dardanelles
The Dardanelles (Çanakkale Boğazı, translit), also known from Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (Ἑλλήσποντος, Hellespontos, literally "Sea of Helle"), is a narrow, natural strait and internationally-significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the continental boundary between Europe and Asia, and separates Asian Turkey from European Turkey.
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Deep-submergence vehicle
A deep-submergence vehicle (DSV) is a deep-diving manned submarine that is self-propelled.
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Depth charge
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare weapon.
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Destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller powerful short-range attackers.
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Destroyer escort
Destroyer escort (DE) was the United States Navy mid-20th-century classification for a warship designed with endurance to escort mid-ocean convoys of merchant marine ships.
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Djibouti (city)
Djibouti City (also called Djibouti; مدينة جيبوتي, Ville de Djibouti, Magaalada Jabuuti, Magaala Gabuuti) is the eponymous capital and largest city of Djibouti.
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Dredging
Dredging is an excavation activity usually carried out underwater, in harbours, shallow seas or freshwater areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments to deepen or widen the sea bottom / channel.
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DSV Alvin
Alvin (DSV-2) is a manned deep-ocean research submersible owned by the United States Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
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Eastbourne
Eastbourne is a town, seaside resort and borough in the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex on the south coast of England, east of Brighton.
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Ensenada, Buenos Aires
Ensenada is a city and port in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, located around the Ensenada de Barragán.
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Ferry
A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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French submarine Minerve (S647)
Minerve was a Diesel–electric submarine in the French Navy.
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Frigate
A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.
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Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Gio Linh District
Gio Linh is a rural district of Quảng Trị Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam.
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Gironde
Gironde (in Occitan Gironda) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwest France.
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Gironde estuary
The Gironde is a navigable estuary (often falsely referred to as a river), in southwest France and is formed from the meeting of the rivers Dordogne and Garonne just downstream of the centre of Bordeaux.
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Golf-class submarine
Project 629, also known by the NATO reporting name of Golf class, were diesel electric ballistic missile submarines of the Soviet Navy.
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Goodwin Sands
Goodwin Sands is a long sandbank at the southern end of the North Sea lying off the Deal coast in Kent, England.
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Guided missile destroyer
A guided-missile destroyer is a destroyer designed to launch guided missiles.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.
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Heavy cruiser
The heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203mm calibre (8 inches in caliber) of whose design parameters were dictated by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
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HMS Caicos (K505)
HMS Caicos was a of the United Kingdom that served during World War II.
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Hull triple trawler tragedy (1968)
The Hull triple trawler tragedy was the sinking of three trawlers from the British fishing port of Kingston upon Hull during January and February 1968.
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Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.
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Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight (also referred to informally as The Island or abbreviated to IOW) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England.
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John C. Butler-class destroyer escort
The John C. Butler class were destroyer escorts that originated during World War II.
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Key West
Key West (Cayo Hueso) is an island and city in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent, at the southwesternmost end of the roadway through the Florida Keys in the state of Florida, United States.
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Las Palmas
Las Palmas, officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a city and capital of Gran Canaria island, in the Canary Islands, on the Atlantic Ocean.
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Liberty ship
Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II.
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Light cruiser
A light cruiser is a type of small- or medium-sized warship.
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Lion Island, Palmer Archipelago
Lion Island is an island 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) long and 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) wide, lying off the east side of Anvers Island and 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) northeast of Cape Astrup, Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.
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Long Island
Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Marine insurance
Marine insurance covers the loss or damage of ships, cargo, terminals, and any transport or cargo by which the property is transferred, acquired, or held between the points of origin and the final destination.
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Mark 16 torpedo
The Mark 16 torpedo was a redesign of the United States Navy standard Mark 14 torpedo to incorporate war-tested improvements for use in unmodified United States fleet submarines.
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Mayday
Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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Mindanao
Mindanao is the second largest island in the Philippines.
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Missile
In modern language, a missile is a guided self-propelled system, as opposed to an unguided self-propelled munition, referred to as a rocket (although these too can also be guided).
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Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.
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MT Sitakund
Sitakund was a Norwegian motor oil tanker owned by Tschudi & Eitzen was sailing from Wilhelmshaven to Libya on 20 October 1968, when three explosions occurred, one of which tore a large hole in the side of the vessel.
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Nantucket
Nantucket is an island about by ferry south from Cape Cod, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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Natal (province)
The Province of Natal (Provinsie Natal), commonly called Natal, was a province of South Africa from 1910 until 1994.
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Nautical mile
A nautical mile is a unit of measurement defined as exactly.
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Naval mine
A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Orkney
Orkney (Orkneyjar), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of Great Britain.
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Osaka
() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Palmer Archipelago
Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Panama Canal
The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.
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Porthcawl Lifeboat Station
Porthcawl Lifeboat Station (based in Porthcawl, Bridgend, Wales) opened in 1860 and a boathouse was subsequently built on the promenade to house the lifeboat.
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Research vessel
A research vessel (RV or R/V) is a ship or boat designed, modified, or equipped to carry out research at sea.
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River Clyde
The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde in Scotland.
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Riviera Beach, Florida
Riviera Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, which was incorporated September 29, 1922.
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Roll-on/roll-off
Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are vessels designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or using a platform vehicle, such as a self-propelled modular transporter.
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a sovereign state in the Lesser Antilles island arc, in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lies in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean.
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San Diego
San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.
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San Francisco
San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan (Saint John) is the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.
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Schiermonnikoog
Schiermonnikoog (or; Skiermûntseach) is an island, a municipality, and a national park in the northern Netherlands.
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Schooner
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel with fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts.
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Scuttling
Scuttling is the deliberate sinking of a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull.
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Ship
A ship is a large watercraft that travels the world's oceans and other sufficiently deep waterways, carrying passengers or goods, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research and fishing.
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Sittwe
Sittwe (formerly Akyab) is the capital of Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma).
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South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from the Karimata and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan of around.
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South Georgia Island
South Georgia is an island in the southern Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
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South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, Việt Nam Cộng Hòa), was a country that existed from 1955 to 1975 and comprised the southern half of what is now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.
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ST Empire Ace
Empire Ace was a 275-ton tug which was built in 1942 for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).
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Steeple Rock
Steeple Rock is the largest rock of Barrett Reef at the west of the entrance to Wellington Harbour, rising 7m above sea level.
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Sule Skerry
Sule Skerry is a remote skerry in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland.
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Survey vessel
A survey vessel is any type of ship or boat that is used for mapping.
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Sussex
Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.
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Tanker (ship)
A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk.
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Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive (Sự kiện Tết Mậu Thân 1968), or officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 (Tổng Tiến công và Nổi dậy Tết Mậu Thân 1968) by North Vietnam and the NLF (National Liberation Front), was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States Armed Forces, and their allies.
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Toulon
Toulon (Provençal: Tolon (classical norm), Touloun (Mistralian norm)) is a city in southern France and a large military harbour on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base.
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Triệu Phong District
Triệu Phong is a district of Quảng Trị Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam.
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Turkey
Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.
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Typhoon
A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Union Company
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited —when there was no chance of confusion casually referred to as Union, Union Company, Union Steam Ship Company (USS Co), or Union Line— was once the biggest shipping line in the southern hemisphere and New Zealand's largest private-sector employer.
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United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's seven uniformed services.
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United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.
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United States Pacific Fleet
The United States Pacific Fleet (USPACFLT) is a Pacific Ocean theater-level component command of the United States Navy that provides naval forces to the United States Indo-Pacific Command.
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USS Absecon (AVP-23)
The second USS Absecon (AVP-23) was a United States Navy ''Barnegat''-class seaplane tender in commission from 1943 to 1947, converted during construction to serve as a catapult training ship during World War II.
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Vado Ligure
Vado Ligure, in antiquity Vada Sabatia, is a town and comune in the province of Savona, Liguria, in northern Italy.
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Viet Cong
The National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (Mặt trận Dân tộc Giải phóng miền Nam Việt Nam) also known as the Việt Cộng was a mass political organization in South Vietnam and Cambodia with its own army – the People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) – that fought against the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War, eventually emerging on the winning side.
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Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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Virginia
Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
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Wellington Harbour
Wellington Harbour is the large natural harbour on the southern tip of New Zealand's North Island.
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White Castle, Louisiana
White Castle is a town in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Zamboanga City
, officially the, (Chavacano: Ciudad de Zamboanga, Lungsod ng Zamboanga), is a highly urbanized city in the Zamboanga Peninsula,.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1968