(History.com) Later on in the 1900 hundreds, there were several more reports of ships being hit by what was said to be a freak wave or rogue wave. One of the most famous ships to get hit by a rogue wave was the Queen Mary. In 1942 while carrying 15,000 American troops 608 nautical miles (700 mi/1,126 km) from Scotland during a gale, RMS Queen Mary was broadsided by a 92-foot (28 m) wave and nearly capsized. Queen Mary listed briefly about 52 degrees before the ship slowly righted herself. (live science.com) One of the most memorable rogue wave occurrences was on October 30, 1991.
How Come a Magnificent Ship was able to sink? At 11.40pm the Titanic was hit by an iceberg and flooding came with the hour. The Titanic was designed to stay afloat with only four compartments flooded. Less than three hours the Titanic lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The Titanic was carrying 2,223 passengers on board when sank and out of those 1,517 died and 706 survivors.
Why did the Titanic sink? On 14th April 1912, RMS Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage. Being the largest ship afloat, the ‘unsinkable’ titanic was struck a deadly iceberg, resulting to 1,517 deaths, and a legend torn apart. But many ask, why did the titanic sink. A simple question with a mysterious answer behind it.
Estimates by the Red Cross and the Texas Department of Public Safety counted 468 fatalities, 100 persons missing and never found, and approximately 3,500 injured. Property and product loss, including 1.5 million barrels of petroleum products, totaled almost $5.5 billion in 2003 dollars. Finally, two thousand townspeople were left without homes at least temporarily, after one third of the town’s 1,519 houses were condemned (Richardson, 2005). Texas City is located on the Texas Gulf Coast, in Galveston County (Stephens 1997). It is on the southwestern shore of Galveston Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico.
Grandpa Bobby was in a bar in a small fishing village in Colombia when he saw Paine's interview on the satellite TV. Hitching his way back to Florida, he tailed Noah and Abbey, suspecting what they were up to. Noah then tells the story of Operation Royal Flush, though Grandpa Bobby adds that the "gun" was just a flare. The Coast Guard shuts down the boat immediately. When Noah and Abbey go to thank Shelly, they find that Lice Peeking wasn't killed or kidnapped, just scared into running away.
“Gentlemen Your Verdict” by Michael Bruce, is a story that begins in a court room. The men in the courtroom were survivors of a submarine crash. There were 20 men in the submarine originally at the beginning of their trip. But when they crashed at the bottom of the ocean, the captain estimated that it would take a week for rescue, and the crew had 3 days of air. Someone had to go, but whom?
On April 27, 1865, the Steamboat Sultana, near Memphis, Tennessee, carrying 2,300 released Union prisoners of war and civilian passengers exploded and sank. Around 1,700 passengers died; to this day the disaster is still worse than the April 24, 1912 sinking of the Titanic when only 1,517 people died. But the Sultana did not become a highlight of history due to the busy month of April for the United States; on April 9 General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union army, only five days later an assassin shot President Lincoln, then April 26 John Wilkes Booth died, and that same day General Joseph Johnson surrendered the last large Confederate army. The Press put the Sultana at the back of their newspapers; they did not consider the accident of having a great significance compared to the end of the Civil War. The incident happened around 2 A.M. when three of the steamship’s four broilers exploded; the Sultana could legally carry 376 people, but due to bribery from army officers the Sultana carried six times more than the legal limit.
At 8:15am on August 6, 1945, approximately 300 to 500 feet above the highly populated city of Hiroshima Japan, the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was detonated. Only minutes later 60,000 to 100,000 people were dead, most were vaporized leaving only an eerie shadow of carbon behind. In the year and months that followed hundreds of thousands of people died of radiation poisoning and radiation provoked disease. Children born in months immediately following the bombing were occasionally born without vital organs or limbs. Was the decision to drop this historical bomb a correct one?
Their language, Chikashshanompa, is on the brink of extinction, as the last monolingual speaker died in December of 2013. “There are now only 65 native speakers of the Chickasaw language who are also fully bilingual in English, and only four to five confident conversational speakers who are under the age of 35.” 2 This dialect is almost 50,000 years old, can you imagine all of the stories and lives shared over 50,000 years? All of them, just gone, every legend passed down from generation to generation, every story told about a hunt, all gone. This is what’s happening with Native American tribes across the
The Bermuda Triangle Mystery The Bermuda Triangle is a strange and mysterious region in the South West Atlantic, where people, ships, boats, and air craft flying over it have presumably been sucked into its stormy waters and/or disappeared. The apexes of this triangle have been widely disputed but generally thought to be Bermuda, Miami, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico; this area covers about 500000 miles. One may ask how could a ship possibly disappear, but somehow many ships have. In 1918, a navy ship called the U.S.S Cyclops went missing along with 309 crew members. No one knows for sure what happened, but people have speculated that the captain was rather eccentric, and that the crew had a disagreements, which later, was settled before the ship vanished.