At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic
sank into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of
Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried
2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and
half hours before.
The iceberg thought to have been hit by Titanic, it was
reported to have a streak of red paint from a ships hull
along it s waterline on one side.
ED DANAHUE
March 24, 1989: One of the worst oil spills in U.S. history began
when the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by
the Exxon Corporation, ran aground on a reef in Prince William
Sound in southern Alaska. An estimated 11 million gallons of oil eventually spilled into the water.
Attempts to contain the massive spill were unsuccessful, and
wind and currents spread the oil more than 100 miles from its
source, eventually polluting more than 700 miles of coastline.
Hundreds of thousands of birds and animals were adversely
affected by the environmental disaster.
(FOX NEWS) – A piece of ephemera that was recovered from the
Titanic shipwreck is going up for sale in Maryland later this
month.
The paper slip from the ship’s post office miraculously survived
the 1912 disaster.
Alex Cooper Auctioneers, the auction house that is selling the
item, estimates that it could sell for as low as $5,000, or as high
as $8,000.
The document will go up for sale at a live auction on January
27.
Titanic post office.
The remains of the RMS Titanic are rapidly corroding at the bottom of the North Atlantic.
A German U-boat sunk a British troop ship, the Laconia, killing
more than 1,400 men on September 12, 1942. The commander
of the German sub, Capt. Werner Hartenstein, realizing that
Italians POWs were among the passengers, strove to aid in
their rescue.
The Laconia, a former Cunard White Star ship put to use to
transport troops, including prisoners of war, was in the South
Atlantic bound for England when it encountered U-156, a
German sub (below). It was under the command of Captain
Rudolph Sharp.
Werner Hartenstein
(27 February 1908 – 8 March 1943)
