Always wanted to go and was finally able too. Surprised by how small the house was, but it definitely felt eerie, especially the attic. The whole place just felt...off. My next goal is to someday spend the night in the house, hopefully on the anniversary.
Launched in 1943 as the Empire Trumpet, she has had several different owners from 1946 to 1966. Different names include Naturalist, Persian Cyrus, Ramadan and Finally Koula F.
On July 25th 1966, Koula F ran aground on Kish Island, Iran. She was attempted to be refloated by a Dutch salvage tug, but it failed. She has remained beached since, becoming a tourist attraction, known as The Greek Ship
Launched in 1910, she was the first warship built/launched for Australia. She was decommissioned In 1928 and sold for scrap.
Her and the destroyer Swan were stripped down to their hulks. In 1934 they were under tow down the Hawkesbury River to Syndey to be fully scrapped. A gale changed plans as Swan foundered and Parramatta broke free of her lines and ran aground opposite Milson Island and was abandoned.
In 1973, Parramatta's bow and stern where cut off and turned into memorials as the rest of the hulk was partially scrapped
It's all good though, I'll just return in August. In the meantime I'm hoping I get scheduled for some or most of the events we got going on during the summer (told my boss i'd be available). If not, guess it's Doordashing and Unemployment in the meantime.
Been here for 9 years but we were allowed to wear a single earbud when I first started
Built in 1978. In September 2002 she was transporting chemicals from Durban to Mombasa when a fire in the engine room got out of control, setting fire to the ship. All crew abandoned ship and the burning ship washed ashore near St Lucia, South Africa.
Her wreck actually washed ashore in a UNESCO World Heritage Site, so in December 2002 they removed 700 tons of hazardous cargo and oil before a salvage team set 3000kg of plastic explosives and detonated them to break as much of the wreck as they could to speed up the deterioration and make it a reef. Diving her wreckage is allowed.
Launched in 1891 as part of the Infanta Maria Teresa Class of armored crusiers, she had a short career.
On July 3rd 1898 during the Battle of Santiago de Cuba , Almirante Oquendo was under concentrated fire from three battleships and a cruiser. She was hit 43 times by the six pounder guns from the Iowa, killing/wounding her crew on the upper decks where some of her guns were unprotected. One of her guns had killed some of her own crew when a shell exploded in the breach. She was hit 14 more times by various calibers, causing a fire that could not be brought under control, threatening an explosion, so the captain ordered her scuttled. She was run aground, allowing crew to flee, but under high risk of getting shot by Cuban insurgents, other crew where rescued by the Americans
In all, she had suffered 58 hits during the battle along with loosing 80 crew, including her commanding officer.
The wreck of Almirante Oquendo is now apart of natural monument called Natural and Cultural Underwater Heritage of The Battle of Santiago de Cuba. Wreck diving is allowed.
She was built in 1891 as the cargo ship Europe before being sold and turned into a whaling factory ship in 1912, renamed Thøger. She was renamed Guvernøren in 1913
On January 27th 1915, she caught fire after her crew threw a party after a successful whaling mission most likely caused by one of her crew knocking a lamp off a table. She had 16,615 barrels of Whale Oil on board which fueled the fire. Despite the ship burning, the captain managed to ground her in Foyn Harbor, allowing all 85 crew to escape.
The bulk carrier was launched in 1967 and was lost in 1974 during a storm.
On May 25th 1974 she was anchored off Newcastle along with 10 other ships when gale warning was issued and seven ships went out to sea while Sygna remained anchored. Her captain ordered her to set sail the following morning on May 26th. She was barely making headway and was pushed parallel to the beach by the storm and was run aground.
A mayday was issued as the ship was pounded by waves, all 30 crew where rescued.
No salvage was done until Spetember 4th, but by that time Sygna had broken her back and her stern had settled in deeper water. Holes were patched and the stern and bow were refloated, but unfortunately the stern ran aground again and settled in the sand, it was stripped of anything valuable. Her stern was attempted to be salvaged again, but this resulted in a large oil spillage so she was left where she lay. Her bow was towed to Taiwan in 1976 to be scrapped.
Her stern decayed over the decades she was on Stockton Beach, finally collapsing in June 2016, leaving very little sticking out of the water
Launched in 1900 as the Port Morant, she was renamed Sarimento in 1909.
On April 1st 1912, she struck rocks at 4:50am. Knowing his ship was going down he steered the ship towards the coast and beached her, allowing all of her passengers and crew to be rescued.
Her wreck now is a feature of the landscape where she wrecked.
Built in 1931 as a passenger cargo ship, she was sunk by Japanese bombers on June 18th 1942
The Japanese bombs bracketed her and struck her midship, setting her ablaze. She lost control of her rudder as she burned so she drifted and ran aground on a reef off Hanubada before she rolled onto her side still burning. 5 crew were killed in the attack, 3 more died days later of their wounds.
All of her bunker fuel was removed in the 1950's and her wreck is now a landmark in Port Moresby.
Built in 1920 as the Rolf Jarl. She was renamed to Maria Schröder in 1950.
On April 11th 1956, she ran aground on a reef off Naqb, Egypt while enroute to Apaba. There were unsuccessful attempts to refloat her, she she was declared a total loss.
Her hull suffered significant decay past 1967. She remained upright until the 1980's and decayed further in the 1990's and 2000's
Built in 1901 as the Venus, she was sold in 1958 to Steel Products Steamship Company and was renamed Steel Products.
She was sold for scrap 3 years later and was getting towed to Port Colborne when her towline broke on October 26th 1961, eventually running aground in shallow water. She was partially salvaged on site. The price of scrap metal skyrocketed in the 1980s so Steel Products was further scrapped, now much of the wreck is below the waterline.
Launched in 1926 as a Mutsuki Class destroyer, she served until 1942.
On May 4th 1942, Kikuzuki was struck by a torpedo from a U.S. aircraft, killing 12 of her crew. She was taken under tow by a Submarine Chaser and was beached at Gavutu Island so the survivors could be taken off, she then slid back into the water and sank.
After Tulagi was invade, a U.S. Salvage ship started to salvage part of the Kikuzuki in hopes to get any intelligence. Her partially salvaged wreck remains in Ghovana Bay.
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She was launched in 1922 and was used as a coastal trade ship in the British Isles under several names before being bought by the Ahern Trading Company and was renamed Ahern Trader.
On January 8th 1960 she arrived in Frederickton with a load of hay. As she departed on her way to Victoria Cove, she anchored out of Frederickton to wait out an incoming storm. As the storm hit, her anchor chain broke and she was blown ashore on jagged rocks. All of her crew where taken ashore and stayed in Frederickton until they where allowed to head home.
There were 4 unsuccessful attempts to refloat her, so they decided to leave her where she was. The waves took a massive toll on the ship over the years, she has now fully collapsed into the sea with some jagged pieces of metal sticking out of the water.
Launched in 1937 as the Molda, she was sold to a Greek company in the mid 1960's and renamed Captain Leonidas.
She ran aground on a Bajo Cotapaxi in the Messier Channel while enroute to Valparaiso Chile on April 7th 1968. Some say it was ran aground deliberately as insurance fraud, but its not fully proven.
She could not be refloated, so she was left stranded.
Her wreck is now a landmark/lighthouse
Launched in 1949 as the Umanak. She was sold to Logos Educational Books in 1970 and renamed Logos, she was used as a Traveling Book Ministry.
She ran aground in poor weather and due to a sailing error on Islote Solitario Chile on January 5th 1988. She was abandoned soon after, there where no casualties.
Launched in 1930 as the Borinquen, she served in WWII as a troop carrier before being sold post war in 1954 and extensively rebuilt and renamed Arosa Star.
She is more famously known as the Bahama Star, in which she saved 489 people from the burning Yarmouth Castle in 1965.
In 1969, she was sold and renamed La Janelle. She was anchored outside of Port Hueneme California with an uncertain future when she started to drag anchors in a gale on April 13th, 1970. She struck the sandy beach, just missing the breakwater and almost immediately started listing hard as she took on water. The two crew aboard tried to jump unit out, but they where eventually rescued by helicopter.
Here beached wreck became a tourist attraction on Silver Strand Beach. A United States Navy team came in to cut off the top of the La Janelle and the rest of her was made into a breakwater where it remains to this day.
Launched as the W.K. Bixby in 1905, She was converted to a self-unloader in 1933 and renamed to Sydney E. Smith Jr in Fall 1971.
On June 4th 1972 at 1:46am, she was struck amidship by the heavily loaded Parker Evens in the St. Clair river , sinking into the shallow water 40 minutes later, all of her crew where rescued.
Sydney E Smith Jr laid on her side in the shipping channel, later being cut/blown in two to be salvaged. Her bow and stern where raised in Summer and Fall 1972 and turned into a dock in Sarnia
Built in 1983, She ran aground and wrecked on Prasonisi, Kythera, Greece on August 29th, 2000 due to the crew being intoxicated. Her engine room flooded and her fuel leaked, causing contamination to the nearby shoreline.
Her stern is submerged in 30m of water and her wreck is now a popular dive site