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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