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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 Jap 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, NZ

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 Capt 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 Capt Cooks last notation in ship's log Discovery

1775 1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters San Francisco Bay

1772 Capt Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown

1756 Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/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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