"vessel's hull. Postage stamps commemorating the incident have been issued by Gibraltar (twice) and by the Maldives (twice, once with the name of the ship misspelt as ""Marie Celeste""). Mary Celeste Mary Celeste (; often misreported as ""Marie Celeste"") was an American merchant brigantine, discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Azores Islands, on December 5, 1872. The Canadian brigantine found her in a dishevelled but seaworthy condition, under partial sail, and with her lifeboat missing. The last entry in her log was dated ten days earlier. She had left New York City for Genoa on November"
"the crew of ""Dei Gratia"" for their resourcefulness and courage. The salvage award for recovering the mysterious brigantine of about $8,300 was diminished by the high court costs of the long inquiry. ""Dei Gratia"" was sold to Irish owners in 1881. She was wrecked at Black Rock, Dale, Pembrokeshire after breaking her moorings in a southeast storm on 27 December 1907. The original ship portrait of ""Dei Gratia"" is preserved at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dei Gratia (brigantine) Dei Gratia was a Canadian brigantine built in Bear River, Nova Scotia in 1871. The brigantine"
"who, on the evening before ""Mary Celeste""s departure, dined together, but the evidence for this is limited to a recollection by Morehouse's widow, 50 years after the event. ""Dei Gratia"" departed for Gibraltar on November 15, eight days after ""Mary Celeste"", following the same general route. ""Dei Gratia"" had reached a position of , midway between the Azores and the coast of Portugal at about 1 pm on Wednesday, December 4, 1872, land time (Thursday, December 5, sea time). As Captain Morehouse came on deck, the helmsman reported a vessel about distant, heading unsteadily towards ""Dei Gratia"". The ship's erratic"
"(1st-2d century A.D.) was unearthed. It included a large number of Roman bronze, alabaster, Syrian glass, coins, Chinese lacquer bowls, and the famous ""Begram ivories"". In October 1940, with his wife, Marie Hackin, he joined the Free French Forces in London. Appointed personal representative of the General de Gaulle in India and surrounding countries, he perished with his wife when their transport ship, ""Jonathan Holt"", was sank by a German torpedo near the Faroe Island, 24 February 1941. Joseph Hackin Joseph Hackin (born 1886 in Boevange-sur-Attert (Luxembourg) - died 24 February 1941) was a French archeologist and Resistance member. Born"
"4–6, 1942 and the decisive turning point of the Pacific War when the United States Navy defeated an attack by the Empire of Japan. First known as ""Middlebrooks Islands"", Midway Atoll was discovered by U.S. Captain N.C. Brooks aboard his ship, ""Gambia"", on July 8, 1859. 1859 Petroleum jelly Petroleum jelly, petrolatum or soft paraffin is a semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons originally promoted as a topical ointment for its healing properties. The raw material for petroleum jelly was discovered in 1859 by Robert Chesebrough, a chemist from New York. In 1870, this product was branded as Vaseline Petroleum Jelly. 1873"
"on 2 December. While off the Cape, ""Leipzig"" took the Canadian sailing ship ""Drummuir"" as a prize; the ship was carrying of coal, which was transferred to the colliers ""Baden"" and ""Santa Isabel"" at Picton Island. On the night of 6 December, von Spee held a conference with the ship commanders to discuss his proposed attack on the Falklands; ""Fregattenkapitän"" Haun, the commander of ""Leipzig"", along with the commanders from ""Gneisenau"" and ""Dresden"", opposed the plan and favored bypassing the Falklands to wage commerce war off La Plata. Nevertheless, von Spee made the decision to attack the Falklands on the"
"to locate whales. The station was established in 1837 and operated until the early 1860s. The wharf, an adjacent sea wall and the connecting road were completed in 1856 by the SA Government to assist whaling industry activity. The wharf was known as the ""Lilliputian Jetty"" due to its relatively small size, i.e. wide by deep. A mine was established on Rosetta Head in 1863 to search for copper and other minerals until the abandonment of the venture in 1866. A tablet set into a granite boulder located near Rosetta Head's summit was unveiled on 8 April 1902 by the"
"Mary Celeste Mary Celeste (; often misreported as ""Marie Celeste"") was an American merchant brigantine, discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Azores Islands, on December 5, 1872. The Canadian brigantine found her in a dishevelled but seaworthy condition, under partial sail, and with her lifeboat missing. The last entry in her log was dated ten days earlier. She had left New York City for Genoa on November 7, and on discovery was still amply provisioned. Her cargo of denatured alcohol was intact, and the captain's and crew's personal belongings were undisturbed. None of those who had"
"Cartier landed on PEI in 1534; believing it was the mainland, he did not venture across the Northumberland Strait to the Jourimain Islands. Cape Tormentin, the original name for the greater Jourimain area, was first used by Nicolas Denys, a French merchant, in 1672, who likely learned about the area from Mi'kmaq fishermen. In the 1830s, the name Cape Tormentine was shifted to another community further down the coast and the area became known as the Jourimain Islands, which is theorized to be a misspelling of germain, a French word for ""sibling"". After the British defeated the French in the"
"in the area of the town in the 1760s naming it Conway. However Digby was formally settled and surveyed as a town in June 1783 by the United Empire Loyalists under the leadership of Sir Robert Digby. The town developed a sizable shipping fleet in the 19th century. One famous Digby vessel was the brigantine ""Dei Gratia"", which discovered the famous mystery ship ""Mary Celeste"" in 1872. The town became an important regional transportation centre in the 1890s with the arrival of the Dominion Atlantic Railway. Trains connected with a series of steamships such as the ""City of Monticello"" and"
"during the War of 1812 was discovered in Shanks Harbor in the United States. Artifacts from the wreck of the ""Atlantic"", a 19th-century liner which sunk off the Marshead, Nova Scotia coast in April 1873 included a tile from the ship's staircase and a heavy ""dead eye"", used to secure rigging for the ship's mast. The Underwater Society kept several volumes containing statistics, reports, diagrams, photographs and other pertinent information on the shipwrecks. The wrecks were discovered in the St. Lawrence River from Lake St. Francis to Kingston, Ontario, the Rideau Canal and the Ottawa River from Montreal, Quebec to"
"oxide and/or hydroxide in Paris in 1879 from the mineral samarskite ((Y,Ce,U,Fe)(Nb,Ta,Ti)O) and identified a new element in it via sharp optical absorption lines. The Swiss chemist Marc Delafontaine announced a new element ""decipium"" (from meaning ""deceptive, misleading"") in 1878, but later in 1880–1881 demonstrated that it was a mixture of several elements, one being identical to the Boisbaudran's samarium. Although samarskite was first found in the remote Russian region of Urals, by the late 1870s its deposits had been located in other places making the mineral available to many researchers. In particular, it was found that the samarium isolated"
"Nicolas Baudin on board the ship ""Le Géographe"". The island was named Ile Depuch after Louis Depuch, a mineralogist on Baudin's expedition. After a visit to the island, Ronsard established that it was volcanic, and was the first evidence of volcanic activity on the Australian continent the expedition had discovered. In 1912, a Norwegian steel sailing ship, the ""Crown of England"", was shipwrecked as it lay anchored on the island loading copper ore, after the area was struck by a cyclone. Many other ships were sunk in the area, such as the passenger liner . The newly built tug sailing"
"in September 1860 in a part of the Pacific Ocean which ""Levant"" was to cross. In June 1861, a mast and a part of a lower yardarm believed to be from ""Levant"" were found near Hilo. Spikes had been driven into the mast as if to form a raft. Rumors also circulated that she had run aground on an uncharted reef off California; or that her crew had defected to the Confederacy. In July 1861, a small bottle was found at Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. It was corked and contained a card that read in part: ""Pacific Ocean"" ""Levant"""
"lost within the coral. Initial tests on the wood indicated that it was the type extensively used in New York shipyards at the time of ""Mary Celeste""s 1872 refit, and it seemed the remains of the ""Mary Celeste"" had been found. However, dendrochronological tests carried out by Scott St George of the Geological Survey of Canada showed that the wood came from trees, most probably from the US state of Georgia, that would still have been growing in 1894, about ten years after the ""Mary Celeste""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s demise. ""Mary Celeste"" was not the first reported case of a ship being found"
"his compatriot, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec, found the Kerguelen Islands. The second of James Cook's historic voyages, 1772–1775, was primarily a search for the elusive Terra Australis Incognita that was still believed to lie somewhere in the unexplored latitudes below 40°S. Cook left England in September 1772 with two ships, HMS ""Resolution"" and HMS ""Adventure. After pausing at Cape Town, on 22 November the two ships sailed due south, but were driven to the east by heavy gales. They managed to edge further south, encountering their first pack ice on 10 December. This soon became a solid barrier, which"
"named after one of the ship's crew members. The first recorded visit likely was during the Canadian Army's survey and mapping of the Arctic islands in the late 1940s. A metal ""T-shaped"" triangulation point survey marker then was installed on the island's highest point, now called Triangle Point. Sometime in the early 1970s, five unmarked, sealed 45 gallon drums of aviation fuel were cached near the point, possibly by an oil exploration company. They were never reclaimed. In the summer of 1973, Stewart D. Macdonald of the Canadian National Museum of Natural Sciences discovered the island was the first known"
"was the funnel for the refrigeration plant placed between her fore and main masts, (sometimes leading her to be mistaken for a steamship which had been common since the 1840s). In February 1882, the sailing ship ""Dunedin"" sailed from Port Chalmers New Zealand with 4,331 mutton, 598 lamb and 22 pig carcasses, 246 kegs of butter, as well as hare, pheasant, turkey, chicken and 2,226 sheep tongues and arrived in London after sailing 98 days with its cargo still frozen. After meeting all costs, The NZALC company made a £4,700 profit from the voyage. Soon after ""Dunedin""s successful voyage, an"
"1822. The ship was discovered frozen in ice in the Drake Passage by a Captain Brighton of the whaler ""Hope"" in September 1840. The log had been entered until 17 January 1823. The last port of call had been Callao, near Lima, Peru. Brighton took the logbook with him in order to return it to the shipowners. The ""Jenny"" is commemorated by the Jenny Buttress, a feature on King George Island near Melville Peak, named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960. Australian poet Rosemary Dobson wrote about the story in her poem ""The Ship of Ice"" published in"
"1982, the National Museum and the Marine Archaeology Unlimited, Inc. headed an excavation of a shipwreck about 40m below the surface in the southwest coast of Marinduque. The site was discovered by a local fisherman who was able to retrieve many ceramic pieces even without any diving equipment in the said site. It is believed that the ship was a Chinese trading galleon from the Ming dynasty. More than 1,100 pieces of artifacts from the site were collected, most of which are porcelain plates, jars, and stoneware. The stoneware jars notably resembled the jars containing dragon designs excavated from the"
"dissemination of railroads of British capital, and cattle and sheep raising. Product of a series of geographical expeditions to Patagonia, the Strait of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego made by the Argentine explorer Francisco Pascasio Moreno and Chilean expert Diego Barros Arana between 1873 and 1879, Argentina in 1881 signed the Treaty of limits with Chile. In 1896, problems with the demarcation, the decision had to undergo an arbitration award in Britain. At that time, Moreno was appointed expert on behalf of the Argentine government. In a gesture of brotherhood, 15 February 1899 was found in the Strait of Magellan,"
"were still cooperating, Dee using Mercator's maps to convince the English court to finance Martin Frobisher's expeditions and Mercator still avidly seeking information of new territories. The final success in Leuven was the 1551 celestial globe, the partner of his terrestrial globe of 1541. The records of the Plantin Press show that several hundred pairs of globes were sold before the end of the century despite their high price—in 1570 they sold at 25 carolus guilders for a pair, equivalent to 2500 euro in modern currency. Celestial globes were a necessary adjunct to the intellectual life of rich patrons and"
"was probably Canada's largest gas field. Over the next three years came other large gas fields in the islands. These and later discoveries established reserves of of dry, sweet natural gas. The company also discovered oil - on the islands at Bent Horn and Cape Allison, offshore at Cisco and Skate. Exploration moved offshore when Panarctic began drilling wells from ""ice islands"" - not really islands, but platforms of thickened ice created in winter by pumping sea water on the polar ice pack. Oil was discovered in 1974 at Bent Horn N-72, the first well drilled on Cameron Island. In"
"rotted away. The Captain ordered that it be re-erected in its original position. In 1818 the ""Uranie"" with French explorer Louis de Freycinet, who had been an officer in Hamelin's 1801 crew, sent a boat ashore to recover de Vlamingh's plate. It eventually arrived in Paris, only to be lost for over a century. It was found in 1940 and returned to Australia in 1947, where it can now be seen in the Western Australian Maritime Museum in Fremantle, Western Australia. The Baudin expedition left also a plaque at the island at 16 July 1801. In 1869, Francis Louis von"
"used by Robert Falcon Scott, the ""RRS Discovery"". This ship is now on display at Discovery Point in the city, and the Victorian steel-framed works in which Discovery's engine was built is now home to the city's largest book shop. The need of the local jute industry for whale oil also supported a large whaling industry. Dundee Island in the Antarctic takes its name from the Dundee whaling expedition, which discovered it in 1892. Whaling ceased in 1912 and shipbuilding ceased in 1981. The last connection with whaling in Dundee reportedly ended in 1922 when a trading ketch owned by"
"from the water by divers. This grain was delivered to Leningrad at night, and was used for baking bread. When the city ran out of reserves of malt flour, other substitutes, such as finished cellulose and cotton-cake, were used. Oats meant for horses were also used, while the horses were fed wood leaves. When 2,000 tons of mutton guts had been found in the seaport, a food grade galantine was made of them. When the meat became unavailable, it was replaced by that galantine and by stinking calf skins, which many survivors remembered until the end of their lives. During"
"discovered on Banaba Island (also known as Ocean Island, now part of the Kiribati archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean). The UK government licensed the Pacific Islands Co Ltd, and from 1902 its subsidiary the Pacific Phosphate Co Ltd to mine the land. In the 1920s the British Phosphate Commission took over run by the UK, Australian and New Zealand governments, and continued the mining, together with mining on the islands of Nauru and Christmas Island (in the Indian Ocean). From 1907, royalties of 6d. a ton were paid to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands government. There were difficulties in"
"by Philippe Godard and Max Cramer. This triggered a broader search by a team from the Western Australian Museum led by Myra Stanbury, with Bob Sheppard, Bob Creasy and Dr Michael McCarthy. On 1 April 1998, an intact bottle bearing a lead cap identical to the one recovered earlier, also with a coin set in it, was unearthed. No trace of an annexation document has yet been found. In 1801 the island was visited by a French expedition aboard the ""Naturaliste"" led by Captain Emmanuel Hamelin. This expedition found de Vlamingh's plate almost buried in the sand, its post having"
"to 1935 sailed with Tatibouet in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. ""Fou Po"" was destroyed in a hurricane on Formosa (modern day Taiwan), but de Bisschop quickly built a new, smaller junk, ""Fou Po II"" in 1933. In July 1935, they were detained for two weeks by the Japanese in Jaluit (Marshall Islands) under suspicion of being spies and barely escaped, fleeing towards the Hawaiian Islands. On October 25, they reached, half starving, Molokai Island and were rescued at the Kalaupapa hospital. On the 27th, the ""Fou Po II"" was destroyed by a storm, along with all the scientific work done"
"was lost. Pressed by Franklin's wife, Jane, Lady Franklin, and others, the Admiralty launched a search for the missing expedition in 1848. Prompted in part by Franklin's fame and the Admiralty's offer of a finder's reward, many subsequent expeditions joined the hunt, which at one point in 1850 involved eleven British and two American ships. Several of these ships converged off the east coast of Beechey Island, where the first relics of the expedition were found, including the graves of three crewmen. In 1854, explorer John Rae, while surveying near the Canadian Arctic coast southeast of King William Island, acquired"
"truck loads intended to resupply the community. The fuel was removed from the truck by 2 am, 8 March. John Franklin's 1825-1827 outpost was excavated by the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in 1987. The excavation uncovered beads, rings, and buttons indicating the extent of trade between the Dene and Europeans. The site is protected by the Northwest Territories Archaeological Sites Regulations. In 1996, the site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. Délįne is represented by the Déline First Nation and belongs to the Sahtu Dene Council. Through the council, they completed negotiations with the Government of"
"way to the Mediterranean to show the flag at such ports as Ville Franche, Toulon, Marseille, Genoa, Alexandria, and Naples. While at Ville Franche on 15 December 1871, Seaman Isaac Sapp jumped overboard and rescued a shipmate from drowning, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. On 1 June 1872, she set course north for Lisbon, Queenstown, Plymouth, and Southampton; thence proceeded to Lisbon, Cadiz, Algiers, Tunis, Malta, and Piraeus. In the last named port, Christmas Day of 1872, she was host to the King and Queen of Greece. The following months found her at such ports as"
"mentioned). However, Percé Rock is only a small component of the large areas of Devonian rocks that occupy the interior that were first mapped in 1844 by Sir William Edmond Logan, known as the father of Canadian geology. Fossils in such rocks show a variety of animal and plant communities from both terrestrial and marine habitats from the Devonian period. The Percé Rock contains 150 species of different fossils such as brachiopod, trilobites, dalmanites, corals and marine worms from the Devonian period. Originally, the Percé Rock was inferred as connected to the main land. When Jacques Cartier, the first colonist"