"Queen Elizabeth to safely rest on the bed of the Intracoastal Waterway in Ft. Lauderdale harbour (Port Everglades) and remain open, but instead the vessel was towed out of the harbour to Asia to become a floating university. Losing money and forced to close after being declared a fire hazard, this was due to the ship being sold at auction in 1970 to Hong Kong tycoon Tung Chao Yung. Tung, the head of the Orient Overseas Line, intended to convert the vessel into a university for the World Campus Afloat program (later reformed and renamed as Semester at Sea). Following"
"on Queen's Island was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe in April and May 1941 causing considerable damage to the shipbuilding facilities and destroying the aircraft factory. With the rise of the jet-powered airliner in the late 1950s, the demand for ocean liners declined. This, coupled with competition from Japan, led to difficulties for the British shipbuilding industry. The last liner that the company launched was MV ""Arlanza"" for Royal Mail Line in 1960, whilst the last liner completed was SS ""Canberra"" for P&O in 1961. In the 1960s, notable achievements for the yard included the tanker ""Myrina"", which was the"
"of London. Bought in September 1897 by the Adelaide Steamship Company and was rebuilt in 1904. She was gutted by fire on 6 March 1920. The ship was carrying a cargo including 'benzine' and was near Dunk Island when, at 5 am, there was a violent explosion in the after hold, followed almost immediately by an explosion in the forward hold. Flames higher than the mast emerged from the after hold and set fire to the ship's boats and superstructure. The first mate was sitting on a hatch at the time of the first explosion and disappeared; some human bones"
"was held in the vessel's home port of Liverpool on the 30th anniversary of ""Derbyshire""'s loss. A permanent memorial was dedicated on 15th September 2018 in the garden of the Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Liverpool. MV Derbyshire MV ""Derbyshire"" was an ore-bulk-oil combination carrier built in 1976 by Swan Hunter, as the last in the series of the ""Bridge""-class sextet. She was registered at Liverpool and owned by Bibby Line. She was lost on 9 September 1980 during Typhoon Orchid, south of Japan. All 42 crew members and two of their wives were killed in the sinking."
"Harbour is also home to the wreck of the SS Linkmoor, of London, Captain Ridley. Liverpool to Blyth. Lost 10 Nov 1930, 2.55am GMT during a Westerly gale force 8-9 in heavy sea & squalls. Cause, engine trouble and state of weather, with 32 on board of whom all were saved. The SS Linkmoor is a favourite ""shore"" dive site for local divers and is often used as a training dive. Best dived in winter due to the shallow nature of the wreckage being obscured by kelp. The boilers actually stood proud of the water until they final succumbed to"
"Humber, the docks in Hull were bombed; all docks were damaged, and the wooden Riverside Quay at Albert Dock was totally destroyed in 1941. Major fires destroyed the fish market at St Andrews Dock in 1929, and a general cargo shed at Humber Dock in 1951. In 1970, a vehicle carrying liquefied gas struck the top of a road subway leading to the William Wright and St Andrew's docks, resulting in a gas explosion and fire. The incident caused two deaths and 17 serious injuries. On 18 September 2017, emergency crews attended a large-scale acid leak which had caused a"
"elderly ship had her main engine removed (it is now on display at the Science Museum in London) and she was scuttled about 200 yards from the Shagstone on 27 April 1970. Intended to be used as a diver training site, she was sunk in shallow water, but soon found to be obstructing the entrance to the port and was dispersed using explosives. The remains currently sit in of water south of the Plymouth breakwater at . The wreck is considerably broken up, but the boilers remain and are currently home to a number of conger eels. Glen Strathallan Glen"
"HMS Breda (1679) HMS ""Breda"" was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Harwich in 1679. ""Breda"" was destroyed by an accidental fire in 1690. She was anchored at Spike Island, Cork with a full complement of 400 aboard, including troops and 160 Jacobite prisoners, when a gunpowder explosion occurred. She took fire and blew up. Col. John Barrett, who escaped, was considered to have caused the explosion maliciously. There were 9 other survivors. Following the Siege of Cork Barrett was taken prisoner by Marlborough and placed upon the Breda where he"
"Atlantic convoy escorts and minesweepers were based in the dock. In 1942 the National Fire Service opened a fire station on Fort Road and had a berth for some of its fireboats adjoining the NW Wall of the Dock, this remained open until 1946. On 25 January 1953, the liner RMS ""Empress of Canada"" caught fire and capsized in Gladstone Number One Branch Dock. She was refloated the following year and towed to Gladstone Graving Dock to be made watertight, in preparation for being scrapped in Italy. Transatlantic passenger services continued to use the dock until all such services from"
"and London"". The library building was demolished in the 1980s and the site is now part of the open space called Potter's Fields. The most famous wharf of the south side of the Pool of London was Hay's Wharf, first mentioned in 1651 to the east of St Olave's church. For 300 years it grew, until Tooley Street and the surrounding industrial development was nicknamed ""London's Larder"". The warehouses burned down in the 1861 fire (see above). Hay's Wharf was where Ernest Shackleton's ship ""The Quest"" lay in 1921. This dock was filled in during extensive rebuilding in the 1980s"
"prior to retirement, the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2 ran aground on the Bramble Bank at approximately 0530 hrs. She required four tugs to pull her clear on the rising tide and arrived in Southampton approximately 90 minutes late. On 3 January 2015 the car transporter was beached on the bank after developing a list. A 200-metre maritime exclusion zone was put into in place around the ship until the salvage operation took place, and airspace below 2,000 ft was also closed to aircraft within . She was refloated on the rising tide on the 7th of January 2015, and"
"1985 and lies in of water. The wreck is protected under the Irish National Monument Act, and a licence from the National Monuments Service is required to dive it. HMS Vanguard (1870) The eighth HMS ""Vanguard"" of the British Royal Navy was an ""Audacious""-class central battery ironclad battleship, launched in 1870. ""Vanguard"" — under the command of Captain Richard Dawkins, sailed out of Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire) harbour on 27 August 1875 in company with three other ironclads, , and . The ships were part of the First Reserve Squadron and were on a summer cruise around the Irish coast."
"in moorings at Binfield Marina on the River Medina near Newport. In 1977 she caught fire with damage estimated at £100,000 but she was repaired. However, by the late 1980s her popularity had waned and the nightclub was closed. She remained derelict and abandoned on her mooring, gradually deteriorating. In August 2006 her funnel collapsed and she is now possibly beyond repair. In September 2009 it was announced that enthusiasts were attempting to raise funds to buy the steamer, held by receivers after her former owner, Island Harbour Holdings LTD, went into administration. A non-profit company, PS Ryde Trust, wished"
"the Nazi U-boats off the coast of Cape Breton and Newfoundland during the Battle of the Atlantic, when 20 of the 35 merchant cargo vessels were sunk on their journey to England. Sydney Harbour was one of the hotspots of the Battle of the St. Lawrence. Two notable shipping attacks occurred during this battle: the sinking of the train ferry in October 1942 on its way from North Sydney to Port aux Basques, Newfoundland; and the sinking of the Sydney-based HMCS ""Shawinigan"" on 24 November 1944 in the Cabot Strait, near Cape North, on Cape Breton Island. Sydney's coal shipping"
"Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes of the Titanic The Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes of the ""Titanic"" is a granite monument located on St. Nicholas Place, at the Pier Head, in Liverpool, England. The city of Liverpool is strongly associated with the ill-fated liner that sank on 15 April 1912, after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic with the loss of some 1,517 lives. The RMS ""Titanic"" was owned by White Star Line which was founded in Liverpool in 1840. Liverpool was also the port of registry of the liner with the words 'Titanic, Liverpool' visible on"
"construction of a locally opposed housing development in the 1970s) is visible only as grass-covered mounds and remains mainly unexcavated. The wreck that can be seen off the harbour is the 1021grt coaster ""SS Vina"" which was used for target practice by the RAF before accidentally sinking in 1944. The ""Vina"" was built at Leith by Ramage & Ferguson in 1894 and was registered at Grangemouth. She was a coast-hugging general cargo ship which would have worked the crossings between the east coast of England and through to the Baltic states. As she neared the end of her useful seagoing"
"a riverfront nightclub. In the lates 1990s, the Warship Preservation Trust acquired LCT 7074 and undertook minor restoration work but when the trust went into liquidation in January 2006, all restoration stopped. Much of LCT 7074's superstructure is original to her 1944 build, however, her engines had been removed and will need to be replaced. LCT 7074 was partly submerged at its mooring at East Float in Birkenhead, but following a £916,000 grant from the National Memorial Heritage Fund (NHMF), the craft was salvaged during a two-day operation on 15 and 16 October 2014. The operation started on 22 August"
"""Agip Abruzzo"", sparking an extensive fire that ravaged the ship. The only survivor of the crew and passengers of the ferry was a young ship's boy, Alessio Bertrand from Naples. The other 140 on board were killed by the fire or toxic fumes. On 28 May 1998 the ship's hull sunk while impounded in a dock in Livorno harbor; it was later refloated and sent to be scrapped in Turkey. MV"" Moby Prince"" was an Italian ferry owned by Navarma Lines (today Moby Lines). She was built in 1967 by the English shipyard Cammell Laird of Birkenhead as ""Koningin Juliana"""
"to be in use into the 20th century, by the fur and tanning trades. Being upstream of London Bridge, however, meant that large sea-going sailing ships could no longer safely reach the dock from the sea. King Charles II landed at Queenhithe during the Great Fire of London in September 1666 to view the extent of the destruction and assist in the firefighting. The dock, including the wharf walls and adjacent street, was designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument in 1973; it is the only surviving inlet on the modern City's waterfront. Its walls have been re-strengthened, as part of London's"
"accounts report 78 survivors.) Notes Citations References Hibernia (1828 ship) Hibernia was a passenger ship built at Prince Edward's Island in 1828. She was transporting passengers from Liverpool to Australia when a fire in the South Atlantic (4°40′S 20°30′W) on 5 February 1833 destroyed her. ""Hibernia"" had two decks, with poop and forecastle decks. She had three masts, a square stern, quarter quarter galleries, and a scroll head. She was registered at Bristol on 6 April 1829, with owner John Cambridge. Cambridge mortgaged her, but died. The mortgage holders died also, and the executors of his will and that of"
"be buried where ""Lady Elizabeth"" was used as a coal hulk. Plans were made by the Crown Receiver of Wrecks to salvage ""Lady Elizabeth"" and convert her into a floating museum. Due to lack of funding, however, the project was never completed. In the winter of 2008, the ship’s bowsprit broke during a storm. The Falkland Islands Museum & National Trust has discussed removing the bowsprit. Lady Elizabeth (1879) Lady Elizabeth was an iron barque of 1,155 tons built by Robert Thompson Jr. of Southwick, Sunderland and launched on 4 June 1879. Robert Thompson Jr. was one of the sons"
"to North Reef near Heron Island, Queensland, 7 July 1926 and sent out an S.O.S call. The ""S.S.Burwah"" responded to her call and rescued her crew of 84 and 200 passengers. After several unsuccessful salvage attempts she was abandoned to the underwriters it was latter gutted by fire on 26 January 1927. She now lies broken up and scattered over the reef and a few beams and machinery parts in the coral in 4 metres of water her boiler remains visible on the beach near the North reef lighthouse. . Joyce a 42-foot wooden motor vessel struck the southeast corner"
"their lives, and two from the ""Queen Charlotte"", anchored nearby. The anchor cables were destroyed by the fire, so the ship drifted and eventually ran aground. It eventually had to be blown up, and the Boyne Buoy, still marks the position of the wreck near Southsea Castle at the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour. The accident happened before John Jervis had been able to remove all his papers and belongings, so everything he had on board was lost. George Grey, as captain, was court-martialed but acquitted, as he had not been on board at the time. In August 1797, Captain Grey"
"and moved to a dock at Birkenhead for repairs. During the Liverpool Blitz there was concern that there might be considerable loss of life if the ship were hit and she moved to Glyn Garth Mooring on the Menai Straits, Anglesey, in May 1941. In 1953, it was decided to return the ""Conway"" to Birkenhead for a refit. On 14 April, the ship left her moorings in the Menai Straight under tow, but was driven ashore shortly afterwards by unexpectedly strong tides and wrecked, watched by a large crowd on the Menai Suspension Bridge. A fire in 1956 then destroyed"
"was scuttled and burned. In the 1970s remains of the ship were discovered and is now Long Island's only underwater park. Remains of the ship can be seen at the East Hampton Marine Museum in Amagansett. After the war, Gardiners Island which had been considered an independent colony was officially added to New York and East Hampton. George Washington was to authorize construction of the Montauk Point Lighthouse. During the War of 1812 British frigates once again controlled the northern bays of East Hampton with frigates headquartered in Gardiners Bay particularly harassing ships going into Sag Harbor. Sag Harbor had"
"by P&O in 1971 and the ferries subsequently took on the P&O Ferries colours, with pale blue funnels. The service closed in 1981 and both ships were laid up in Ostend. ""Ulster Queen"" saw further service as ""Med Sea"", ""Al Kahera"" and ""Ala-Eddin"". In 1988, she was bought by Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, and renamed ""Poseidonia"". On 2 November 2005, she caught fire during a voyage from Suez to Jeddah. One crew member was lost. The following day, she sank on Hyndman Reef, Safaga and lies as a wreck. MV Ulster Queen (1967) MV ""Ulster Queen"" was a passenger ferry operated"
"Passengers using the Perth Amboy Ferry were forced to use the nearby Atlantic station instead. On June 25, 1946, a fire wrecked the terminal at Saint George, killing three people and causing damage worth $22,000,000. The fire destroyed the ferry terminal and the four slips used for Manhattan service, the terminal for Staten Island Rapid Transit trains, and a small building and slip owned by the city and used by the Army and Navy to transport personnel from Staten Island to the United States Naval Depot at Bayonne, New Jersey. Twenty rail cars were also destroyed in the fire. Since"
"to escape. Five years later, a fire consumed the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Hoboken ferry piers. The piers immediately south of the NDL piers, owned before World War I by Hamburg America Line, were later also destroyed by fire. In 1921, two of the three piers (Hoboken Pier Nos. 5 and 6) were consumed in a fire that also singed the . Then, in August 1944, Pier No. 4 burned, killing three and briefly setting afire the SS ""Nathaniel Alexander"", a Liberty ship. 1900 Hoboken Docks fire The 1900 Hoboken Docks fire occurred on June 30, 1900, and killed"
"her sister ships which had been sunk during the Second World War. Originally coal fired by hand, she was converted while in Malta to burn heavy fuel oil, with oil burners being fitted in each of the three furnaces in the Scotch boiler. Completing around 15 years service in Malta she was repatriated to the UK, working around River Clyde and the west coast of Scotland for the Port Auxiliary Service. In 1969 she was surveyed and refitted at Ardrossan, then towed to Gareloch where she remained possibly laid-up out of service. In 1977 she was put up for sale"
"docks area once again made the ""Manxman"" homeless, and she was towed to Liverpool in 1991 where once again she was to be used as a floating nightclub in the Trafalgar Docks area. In 1993 she was again moved, this time to Hull, being moored in the disused Ruscador Dry Dock. Here, a fire which broke out in August 1997 seriously damaged many of the vintage wood panels of the ship's interior and she was moved to the yard of Pallion Engineering Company Ltd on the River Wear, in the shadow of the Queen Alexandra Bridge in Sunderland, inside Pallion"
"2007 the ship was severely damaged in a fire that occurred during restoration. A number of well-known tourist attractions are in the surrounding area, including the National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory, Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich foot tunnel, Trinity College of Music, and the Old Royal Naval College. It is the first station south of the River Thames and, as the DLR passes underneath the river in a tunnel, is below ground. Along with all other stations on the Lewisham extension, it is in Travelcard Zones 2 and 3, passengers are only charged the lower of two possible fares as a result."
"an ammunition explosion shortly after the war. Although the remaining pier is in a state of disrepair and fenced off to the public many anglers use it as it offers access to seafish such as mackerel, cod, dogfish, mullet and plaice. In the 1970s the ferry service between Stranraer and Larne in Northern Ireland was operated by British Railways. As private motoring and road transport became dominant at the expense of classic rail-ferry-rail transits, the significance of Stranraer as the ferry terminal, adjacent to the railway station, declined, and a private sector operator, P&O Ferries started operating roll-on roll-off ferries"
"Royal Dockyards in view of the damage he had caused. A crowd of 20,000 gathered to witness the hanging. The death penalty for murder was abolished in 1969, leaving the provisions of the Dockyards etc. Protection Act 1772 as one of the few crimes that retained the death penalty. In 1970, the Law Commission proposed that the crime of arson in royal dockyards be abolished in its draft Criminal Damage Bill as part of an update of the law on criminal damage. The reasoning was that the law was no longer required for its original purposes, as warships were no"