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Newport Ship. The Newport Ship is a mid-fifteenth-century sailing vessel discovered when archaeologists investigated an articulated timber structure uncovered during the building of the Riverfront Arts Centre in Newport in June 2002. The site is on the west bank of the River Usk, which runs through the city centre.
Aviation facilities. 2 × aircraft catapults. Helipad (later conversion) USS Newport News (CA–148) was the third and last ship of the Des Moines -class of heavy cruisers in the United States Navy. She was the first fully air-conditioned surface ship and the last active all-gun heavy cruiser in the United States Navy.
Unknown. Jamaica. Coxon, a buccaneer and member of the Brethren of the Coast who was infamous for his various raids on the Spanish Main through the 17th century, turned to hunting pirates in 1682. He, his 97-man crew, and an eighty-ton ship armed with eight guns, mysteriously disappeared in 1688; their fate is unknown.
Newport News Shipbuilding ( NNS ), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including ...
A steamship that was grounded on Clatsop Spit and wrecked in heavy seas. Tillamook Head. Detroit. 25 December 1855. A brig that bumped ground putting out of the Columbia River. Crew abandoned ship after she took on 7 feet (2.1 m) of water. Ship drifted south and ran aground at Tillamook Head. Tillamook Head. Brant.
List of Weymouth–Channel Islands Sailing Packets (1794-1826) The Channel Islands Post Offices were established in 1794. Thereafter cutters under contract to the Post Office Packet Service sailed weekly, and later twice-weekly, carrying mail between Weymouth, Dorset, and the Channel Islands. [1] Royal Charlotte was the first to sail, on 13 ...
The SS Bengrove was a steamer type collier ship owned by the United Kingdom. Thousands of people on shore witnessed the ship explode and sink in the Bristol Channel on Sunday, 7 March 1915. [9] The ship left Barry at approximately 4:00 a.m. under sealed orders and carrying a cargo of 5000 tons of coal.
Newport. (LST-1179) USS Newport (LST-1179) was the third ship of the United States Navy (USN) to bear the name of the Rhode Island city. The first of her class of landing ship tanks (LST), she was capable of a sustained speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph). Her ability to adjust her draft, accompanied by her unique bow-ramp design, helped bring ...