PortandTerminal.com, July 17, 2020 NANJEMOY, MD – Mallows Bay is a small bay on the Maryland side of the Potomac River that is home to what is considered to be the “largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere”. The remains of more than 230 shipwrecks litter the shallow, tidal bay. Most are the remains of wooden steamships that date back to the first World War 1. Some of …
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US millionaire who bought famous Lusitania shipwreck torpedoed in 1915, dies at 91
PortandTerminal.com, May 21, 2020 CORK, IRELAND – US businessman Gregg Bemis, the owner of the famous Lusitania shipwreck which was torpedoed and sunk off Cork, Ireland has died in New Mexico aged almost 92. After it’s sinking, the wreck was originally claimed by the Liverpool & London War Risks Insurance Association who later sold it to a navy diver John Light …
Read More »Maritime Image of the Day: RMS Lusitania – torpedoed and sunk 105 years ago May 7
PortandTerminal.com, May 7, 2020 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – On this day 105 years ago the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line, was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. She sank killing 1,200 people in the process. The tragedy of her sinking changed the course of World War 1. RMS Lusitania. Image …
Read More »Maritime Image of the Day: “Karte Von Europa (1914)”
PortandTerminal.com, February 3, 2020 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – This rare political caricature map of Europe depicts the continent at the outbreak of World War I. The map was created by Karl Lehmann-Dumont in Dresden and depicts the Germans’ view of the alliance situation and territorial issues towards the end of the first year of the war. The key countries involved in …
Read More »Maritime Image of the Day: “Boy on a Bomb”
PortandTerminal.com, October 12, 2019 Editor’s note: “Image of the Day” is a new feature that we have recently launched. We work in an amazing industry. Let’s celebrate its beauty together by sharing the incredible imagery taken by our colleagues of what we do. Have a photo/video to share? Please send it to info@portandterminal.com along with the name of the photographer who took it …
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