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20. GALVESTON GRAVEYARD OF SHIPS
Upward of a dozen ships ran aground between 1680 and 1880 off Galveston Island, Texas.
21. GENERAL BEAUREGARD (C.S.S.)
Confederate side-wheel ram that fought in the battle of Memphis. Heavily damaged, she sank along the west bank of the Mississippi River in 1862.
22. GENERAL SLOCUM
New York excursion steamer that burned and ran aground off Brothers Island, New York, in 1904.
23. GENERAL THOMPSON (C.S.S.)
Confederate side-wheel ram damaged during the battle for Memphis and run aground in 1862.
24. GLUCKHAUF
Prototype of modem oil tanker. Stranded on Fire Island, New York, in 1893.
25. GOVERNOR MOORE (C.S.S.)
Confederate gunboat that was converted from passenger steamer. Fought in battle of New Orleans, then was run aground and burned by her crew to avoid capture in 1862. Loss of sixty-four crew.
26. GREAT STONE FLEET
Large numbers of contacts in area where New England whaling ships were scuttled to block Charleston Harbor during the Civil War.
27. HAWKE (H.M.S.)
British cruiser sunk by U-9 sixty miles off the coast of Scotland in 1915. Loss of 348.
28. HOUSATOMC (U.S.S.)
Union navy sloop of war. First warship in history to be sunk by a submarine, the Confederate torpedo boat Hunley in 1864. Five of her crew were lost.
29. HUNLEY (C.S.S.)
First submarine in history to sink a warship. After torpedoeing the U.S.S. Housatonic off Charleston, South Carolina, in February of 1864, she vanished.
30. INDEFATIGABLE (H.M.S.)
British battle cruiser sunk by German navy during the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Loss of 1,000-plus.
31. INVINCIBLE (H.M.S.)
British battle cruiser sunk by German navy during the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Loss of 1,026.
32. INVINCIBLE (R.T.N.)
Armed schooner that was the first flagship of the Republic of Texas Navy. Captured arms and supplies from Mexican merchant that were later turned over to General Sam Houston. Sunk in battle off Galveston, Texas, in 1837
33. IVANHOE
Confederate blockade ru
34. JAMUTOWN
Passenger steamer seized by Confederacy and later fought with Merrimack. Later sunk as an obstruction below Drewry’s Bluff in 1862.
35. KEOKUK (U.S.S.)
Unique Union monitor with twin nonrevolving gun turrets that was referred to as a citadel monitor. Took more than ninety hits by Confederate guns off Charleston, South Carolina, in 1863. Sunk soon after.
36. KIRKWALL
British steamer grounded on the east coast of Denmark in 1874.
37. L’AIMABLE
Explorer La Salle’s flagship. Grounded in Matagorda Bay, Texas, in 1685.
38. LEOPOLDVILLE
British troop transport that was torpedoed on Christmas Eve in 1944 off Cherbourg, France. Loss of more than eight hundred American soldiers.
39. LEXINGTON
Extremely fast side-paddle steamboat constructed by Cornelius Vanderbilt. In 1840 she burned and sank in Long Island Sound, New York, with a loss of 151 passengers and crew.
40. LOUISIANA (C.S.S.)
Mammoth Confederate ironclad mounting sixteen guns. Never finished, she was moored along shore and fought in the battle of New Orleans. Sunk by her crew to avoid capture in 1862.
41. MANASSAS (C.S.S.)
The first armored ship built in North America and the first to see battle. Designed as a ram, she burned and sank in the Mississippi River during the battle of New Orleans in 1862.
42. MARY CELESTE
Famous mystery ship recovered with no one aboard. Later intentionally run aground on the Reef of Rochelais, Haiti, in 1885.
43. MERMMACK
NUMA found scattered contacts at Craney Island, Portsmouth, Virginia, where ship was blown up to avoid capture. Wreckage believed to have been dredged out of existence.
44. MISSISSIPPI (U.S.S.)
U.S. Navy side-paddle frigate damaged in Battle of Port Hudson, Louisiana, in 1863. Later drifted loose and blew herself to smithereens.
45. NEW ORLEANS
First steamboat down the Mississippi River. Snagged on stump and sank across from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1814.
46. NORSEMAN
Confederate blockade ru
47. NORTHAMPTON
Confederate supply ship that was sunk as an obstruction below Drewry’s Bluff in 1862.
48. ODIN
Early Swedish steamship that ran ashore off the east coast of Denmark in 1836.
49. PATAPSCO (U.S.S.)
Passaic-class Union monitor that fought throughout the siege of Charleston, South Carolina. Sank after striking a Confederate mine in the cha
50. PATHFINDER (H.M.S.)
Second ship sunk by a submarine and first by a German U-boat. Torpedoed by U-21 in 1914.
51. PHILLIPE (U.S.S.)
Union navy gunboat destroyed by Confederate guns during the battle of Mobile Bay in 1864.
52. PLATT VALLEY
Side-wheel steamer that snagged and sank on the wreck of General Beauregard in 1867.
53. PT-109
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54. RACCOON
Confederate blockade ru
55. RATTLESNAKE
Confederate blockade ru
56. RICHMOND (C.S.S.)
Confederate ironclad that guarded the reaches of the James River. After the fall of Richmond she was destroyed by her crew near Chaffin’s Bluff in 1865.
57. RUBY
Successful Confederate blockade ru
58. S-3S
German destroyer sunk during the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
59. SAMT PATRICK
Four-hundred-ton steamer that burned and sank above Memphis in 1868.
60. SHARK (H.M.S.)
British destroyer sunk during the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
61. STONEWALL JACKSON