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2000 Jose Greco, flamenco dancer, Ship of Fools, dies at 82
1994 Lilia Skala, Austrian/US actress (Ship of Fools, Caprice), dies at 98 1994 U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship 1994 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200 1988 Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship 1986 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die 1985 U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody 1984 Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire 1982 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England 1982 ICC Trophy record p/ship, 257 Schoonheim/Liffman, Hol vs. Malay 1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war 1981 Lola Lane, actress (Zanzibar, Mystery Ship, Big Fight), dies 1981 Cornelis Verolme, Dutch ship builder, dies at 80 1981 Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision 1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak 1980 Katherine A Porter, U.S. author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90 1977 Gertrude Astor, actress (Ship of Wanted Men), dies on 90th birthday 1977 Edith Barrett, actress (Molly and Me, Ghost Ship), dies at 64 1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground 1975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald and crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior 1975 U.S. forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship 1975 U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces 1975 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent and Hobart, Tasmania and ship sinks 1974 "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina 1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire 1971 Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed 1968 82 members of U.S. intelligence ship 'Pueblo' released by North Korea 1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea 1967 Henry J Kaiser, industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), dies at 85 1965 Louise Dresser, actress (State Fair, Ship Comes In, Mammy), dies at 86 1964 John Emery, actor (Ship Ahoy, Kronos, Mademoiselle Fifi), dies at 59 1964 Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage 1964 Netherlands last whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan 1963 Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die 1962 Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga 1961 Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300 1961 Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria 1959 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island 1959 1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, christened, Camden, New Jersey 1959 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship. 200 drown just yards from shore 1958 Carl Brisson, actor (Ship Cafe, Ring, Song of Soho), dies at 64 1958 Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam 1957 German sailing school ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean 1954 Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82 1950 James P[aul] Blaylock, U.S., sci-fi author, Elfin Ship, Homunculus 1949 Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Garelock Scotland 1949 Richard Dix, actor (Tombstone, Ghost Ship, 13th Hour), dies at 56 1948 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100 1947 Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine 1947 British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine 1947 192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched 1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522 1947 Explosions and fire on French ship Grandcamp 1946 1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed 1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st U.S. ship to bombard Japan 1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed 1945 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360 1945 German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed, 4,800 killed 1944 1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp 1943 Christiane Schmidtmer, Heidelberg Germany, actress, Ship of Fools 1943 Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island 1943 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome 1943 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched 1942 German scout ship Altmark explode and sinks off Yokohama 1942 Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River 1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st U.S. submarine to sink a Japanese ship 1941 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a U.S. ship (USS Ward) 1941 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet 1941 German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia 1941 1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched 1941 1st German ship in WW II captured by U.S. ship (Busko) 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight 1941 John Jameson, cricketer, England batsman, 465 p/ship with Kanhai 1941 1st U.S. ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore) 1941 German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes) 1940 1st U.S. merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware 1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church) 1939 Netherlands KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die 1939 German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship 1939 German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia 1939 German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia 1938 1st passenger ship equipped with radar 1936 Jan J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship doc/writer (Seaman's Grave), dies at 38 1934 Michael Dunn, Shattuck, Oklahoma, actor, House of the Damned, Ship of Fools 1934 Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle for New Jersey catches fire, 133 die 1934 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine 1933 Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship 1931 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched 1930 George Steinbrenner, owner, New York Yankees, ship builder/horse owner 1930 1st U.S. radio broadcast from a ship at sea 1926 Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200 1922 Philip Larkin, born in Coventry, England, writer, North Ship, Jill 1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die 1919 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched 1919 Victor A D Segalen, Max Anely, French ship's doctor/writer, dies 1918 U.S. ship Otranto sinks between Scotland and Ireland, 425 die 1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF 1918 1st WW I U.S. Army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland 1917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700 1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die 1917 Germany notifies U.S. that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship 1916 Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930 1915 Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 killed) 1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die 1915 German submarine sinks U.S. ship Gulflight 1915 Dutch merchant Navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo 1915 German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea 1915 Netherlands merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed and sinks in North Sea 1915 Germany sinks U.S. ships Carib and Evelyn and torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin 1915 1st U.S. ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK) 1914 1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal 1914 Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St. Lawrence R; 1024 die 1914 Tampico incident - U.S. ship crew arrested in Mexico 1913 British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill) 1913 German passenger ship Imperator runs aground 1913 John Lund, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Wackiest Ship in the Army 1912 David Langton, born in Scotland, actor, Quintet, St. Joan, Abandon Ship 1912 Fram reaches latitude 78 degrees 41' S, farthest south ever by ship 1911 1st hydroplane flight to and from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego) 1911 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba 1910 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va 1909 Liner "Arapahoe" is 1st ship to use SOS distress call 1909 SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC 1908 Gerd Gaiser, German writer, Ship in the Mountain 1907 Charles Korvin, Czechoslovakia, actor, Berlin Express, Ship of Fools 1907 Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die 1906 Belgian naval education ship Comte The Stain de Naeyer sets sail 1904 Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship 1904 Jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician, dies 1901 Walter Breedveld/Reinier de Muntel, writer, Een ship vergaat 1900 Cornelis Verolme, Dutch ship builder 1898 Bartel Wilton, ship builder, dies at 70 1898 John J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship's doctor/writer/poet, El Dorado 1898 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship 1897 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon 1895 U.S. Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan 1894 Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic 1890 Katherine Anne Porter, U.S., novelist, Ship of Fools 1889 Willem Ruys J Dz, ship owner, dies at 80 1879 Warwick Armstrong, cricketer, Big Ship Great Aussie skipper 1920-21 1878 Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer, White Ship, Estonian Tales 1878 Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia 1876 Wilhelm Cuno, German ship owner/republic chancellor, 1922-23 1876 Paul van Vlissingen, Dutch ship owner, dies at 78 1874 Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire and sinks off Auckland, New Zealand 1872 U.S. cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from New York on a journey which ended when it is found mysteriously abandoned the following month 1871 Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier 1870 Ship sinks in Gulf of Biskaje; 483 die 1867 1st ship passes through Suez Canal 1866 Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die 1864 Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed/sinks 1864 Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark 1864 Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic" 1863 Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides 1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC 1862 1st U.S. Navy hospital ship enters service 1861 MS troops take Ft. Massachusetts an Ship Island 1858 Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire and sinks, 471 die 1858 Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder/ship owner, dies at 74 1853 Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348 1850 Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England 1850 Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/ship owner, dies at 93 1848 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in San Francisco 1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western U.S. 1838 Arnoldus Pannevis, South African ship's doctor/linguist 1836 Jan Boissevain, Dutch politician/ship owner 1832 U.S. ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy 1828 Bartel Wilton, machinefabrikant/ship builder 1819 1st ship sails by Erie-channel (Rome-Utica) 1819 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii 1813 Captain John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship" 1809 Willem Ruys J Dz, Dutch ship owner 1805 Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340 1804 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony 1803 Augustus Zerega diZerega, Martinique, ship owner, Red Z Lane 1802 Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Heros 1797 1st Navy ship, the "United States," is launched 1790 Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry U.S. flag around the world 1788 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound 1787 English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes 1784 Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder 1784 1st U.S. ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from New York 1781 James Lawrence, naval hero, War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!" 1779 Captain Cooks last notation in ship's log Discovery 1775 1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters San Francisco Bay 1772 Captain Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown 1756 Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant and ship owner 1751 Royal ship Duc de Bourgogne launched at Rochefort 1704 Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83 1678 Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon 1675 Kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship designer, dies at 52 1653 Dutch ship "Sperwer" stranded at Tsjedzjoe Korea 1653 John Bicker, ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61 1647 Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay 1634 English King Charles I disbands new "Ship Money" tax 1624 Isaac Le Maire, Amsterdam ship owner, dies at about 66 1622 Kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship builder 1611 Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery and never seen again 1590 Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda 1519 Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate Earth 1492 Columbus' ship Santa Maria docks at Dominican Republic 1492 Christopher Columbus and ship Santa Maria land in Dominican Republic 1492 Columbus' ship Santa Maria lands at Dominican Republic 1120 English royal yacht "White Ship" leaves in storm 193 Didius Julianus, ship owner/emperor of Rome (193), murdered at 61 |
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