fuckyeahwrecks
transportation gone awry
**two posts per day of a plane, train, auto, airship, streetcar etc that has come to an unfortunate end. (except in cases of breaking news).**
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Photo reblogged from The complicated small words
In 1956, the vessel Etrusco ran aground at Scituate Lighthouse after a blizzard on March 16th.
The crew had been rescued by the Coast Guard and the ship remained on Cedar Point until it floated off after a high tide the following December.
Scituate Lighthouse has so much cool history to it. You can read up on a lot of it here.
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Divers explore the coral-encrusted remains of the British Carnatic, which sunk in September 1869 after running aground near Gubal Island.
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Photo reblogged from I am WHO I am..
Gibraltar - Fedra shipwreck by Roy McGrail (krm gib) on Flickr.
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This Day In Wrecks
1914: The RMS Empress of Ireland collides with the Storstad, a Norwegian coal ship, in the St. Lawrence River. She sinks in under 15 minutes, the damage exacerbated by water flooding through her open portholes, killing 1,012 people. (Pictured is the Storstad after the collision.)
1941: The British cargo ship SS Empire Storm is torpedoed and sunk by U-557 while traveling in a convoy south of Greenland.
1947: United Airlines Flight 521 crashes while attempting to takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, killing 42 people as it runs off the runway, crosses Grand Central Parkway, and hits an embankment. 6 people on the DC-4 survive.
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Photo reblogged from JC Powell Photography
The shipwreck of the S.S. ATLANTUS, off the coast of New Jersey (Sunset Beach) in Cape May. It ran a ground in 1926 during a storm.
More info here - http://www.concreteships.org/ships/ww1/atlantus/
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Photo reblogged from Waterworld
Sorry, dude. But that’s what happens when a 68,879 ton bulk carrier t-bones a tuna boat against a concrete wharf. Video and pics.
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Link reblogged from Archaeological News
A MYSTERIOUS shipwreck that lay in the Solent for 160 years has finally been identified by archaeologists, and its fascinating history revealed for the first time.
The wreck, which lies on the Horse Tail Sands three miles east of Bembridge, was first discovered by fishermen in 2003, but it…
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Photo reblogged from Tales of War
British sailors, survivors of the HMS Glowworm seen from the Admiral Hipper cruiser optics. December 1940.
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Photo reblogged from The deep-sea girl, sinking willfully
On this day in 1915 the Lusitania sank.
Over 1,100 lives were lost.
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Photo reblogged from abandoned nyc
Path to the Arthur Kill Ship Graveyard. Rossville, Staten Island. 2-1-12.
::clicks link::
AHHH things to do in New York!
