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List of shipwrecks in 1959, the Glossary

The list of shipwrecks in 1959 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1959.^[1]

191 relations: Accra, Admiralty (United Kingdom), Afognak, Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Alexander Archipelago, Anglesey, Antipaxos, Antwerp, Arkhangelsk, Arrest, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Atlantic Ocean, Avgas, Öland, Barge, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Beauharnois Canal, Beaumaris, Belgium, Bremen, Bremerhaven, British Columbia, British U-class submarine, Broughty Ferry, Burnham-on-Sea, Burrard Inlet, Cable layer, Cairo, Caithness, Canada, Cap de la Hague, Cape Farewell, Greenland, Capsizing, Cargo liner, Cargo ship, Caribbean, Cheshire, Chinese Civil War, Coastal trading vessel, Collier (ship), Cook Inlet, Copenhagen, Corvette, Craig, Alaska, Cristóbal, Colón, Double Island Point, Dover, Duluth, Minnesota, Dunbeath Castle, ... Expand index (141 more) »
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Maritime incidents in 1959

Accra

Accra (Ga or Gaga; Nkran; Ewe: Gɛ; Ankara) is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean.

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The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.

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Afognak

Afognak (Alutiiq: Agw’aneq; Афогнак) is an island in the Kodiak Archipelago north of Kodiak Island in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Aleutian Islands

The Aleutian Islands (Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones.

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Alexander Archipelago

The Alexander Archipelago (Архипелаг Александра) is a long archipelago (group of islands) in North America lying off the southeastern coast of Alaska.

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Anglesey

Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales.

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Antipaxos

Antipaxos (Αντίπαξος) is a small island (5 km2) in Greece, about to the south of Paxos.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk (Арха́нгельск), also known as Archangel and Archangelsk, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

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Arrest

An arrest is the act of apprehending and taking a person into custody (legal protection or control), usually because the person has been suspected of or observed committing a crime.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City, sometimes referred to by its initials A.C., is a Jersey Shore seaside resort city in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Avgas

Avgas (aviation gasoline, also known as aviation spirit in the UK) is an aviation fuel used in aircraft with spark-ignited internal combustion engines.

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Öland

Öland (sometimes written Oland internationally; Oelandia) is the second-largest Swedish island and the smallest of the traditional provinces of Sweden.

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Barge

Barge often refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion.

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Barry, Vale of Glamorgan

Barry (Y Barri) is a town and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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Beauharnois Canal

The Beauharnois Canal is located in southwestern Quebec, Canada.

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Beaumaris

Beaumaris (Biwmares) is a town and community on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales, of which it is the former county town of Anglesey.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Bremen

Bremen (Low German also: Breem or Bräm), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen), is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.

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Bremerhaven

Bremerhaven (Bremerhoben) is a city on the east bank of the Weser estuary in northern Germany.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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British U-class submarine

The British U-class submarines (officially "War Emergency 1940 and 1941 programmes, short hull") were a class of 49 small submarines built just before and during the Second World War.

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Broughty Ferry

Broughty Ferry (Scottish Gaelic: Bruach Tatha; Scots: Brochtie) is a suburb of Dundee, Scotland.

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Burnham-on-Sea

Burnham-on-Sea is a seaside town in Somerset, England, at the mouth of the River Parrett, upon Bridgwater Bay.

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Burrard Inlet

Burrard Inlet (səl̓ilw̓ət) is a shallow-sided fjord in the northwestern Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada.

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Cable layer

A cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, for electric power transmission, military, or other purposes.

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Caithness

Caithness (Gallaibh; Katanes.) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Cap de la Hague

Cap de la Hague is a cape at the tip of the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, France.

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Cape Farewell, Greenland

Cape Farewell (Nunap Isua; Kap Farvel) is a headland on the southern shore of Egger Island, Nunap Isua Archipelago, Greenland.

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Capsizing

Capsizing or keeling over occurs when a boat or ship is rolled on its side or further by wave action, instability or wind force beyond the angle of positive static stability or it is upside down in the water.

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Cargo liner

A cargo liner, also known as a passenger-cargo ship or passenger-cargoman, is a type of merchant ship which carries general cargo and often passengers.

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Cargo ship

A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with armed conflict continuing intermittently from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949, resulting in a communist victory and control of mainland China.

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Coastal trading vessel

Coastal trading vessels, also known as coasters or skoots, are shallow-hulled merchant ships used for transporting cargo along a coastline.

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Collier (ship)

A collier is a bulk cargo ship designed or used to carry coal.

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Cook Inlet

Cook Inlet (Tikahtnu; Sugpiaq: Cungaaciq) stretches from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage in south-central Alaska.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.

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Corvette

A corvette is a small warship.

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Craig, Alaska

Craig (Sháan Séet) is a city in the Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area in the Unorganized Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Cristóbal, Colón

Cristóbal is a port town and corregimiento in Colón District, Colón Province, Panama.

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Double Island Point

Double Island Point is a coastal headland in Queensland, Australia.

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Dover

Dover is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England.

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Duluth, Minnesota

Duluth is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of St. Louis County.

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Dunbeath Castle

Dunbeath Castle is located on the east coast of Caithness, south of Dunbeath, in northern Scotland.

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Duncan Canal (Alaska)

The Duncan Canal is a naturally occurring inland waterway in the Alexander Archipelago in Alaska, United States.

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Duncansby Head

Duncansby Head (Ceann Dhunngain or Dùn Gasbaith) is the most northeasterly part of both the Scottish and British mainlands, slightly northeast of John o' Groats.

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Dundas Island (British Columbia)

Dundas Island (île Dundas) is an island on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, on the west side of Chatham Sound to the northwest of Prince Rupert.

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Dungeness

Dungeness is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland.

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Dutch Harbor

Dutch Harbor is a harbor on Amaknak Island in Unalaska, Alaska.

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Dwarka

Dwarka is a town and municipality of Devbhumi Dwarka district in the state of Gujarat.

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East Riding of Yorkshire

The East Riding of Yorkshire, often abbreviated to the East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

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El Jadida

El Jadida is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, located south of the city of Casablanca, in the province of El Jadida and the region of Casablanca-Settat.

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Ellesmere Port

Ellesmere Port is a port town in the Cheshire West and Chester borough in Cheshire, England.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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Ernest Sound

Ernest Sound is a strait in Southeast Alaska, U.S.A. It extends southwest, from the mouth of Bradfield Canal to Clarence Strait, separating Wrangell and Etolin Islands from the mainland.

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Esbjerg

Esbjerg is a seaport city and seat of Esbjerg Municipality on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark.

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Falmouth, Cornwall

Falmouth (label) is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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False Pass, Alaska

False Pass (Isanax̂) is a city on Unimak Island, in the Aleutians East Borough of southwestern Alaska, United States.

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Ferry

A ferry is a boat that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water.

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Fishing trawler

A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls.

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Fishing vessel

A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish and other valuable nektonic aquatic animals (e.g. shrimps/prawns, krills, coleoids, etc.) in the sea, lake or river.

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Flamborough Head

Flamborough Head is a promontory, long on the Yorkshire coast of England, between the Filey and Bridlington bays of the North Sea.

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Fox Islands Passes

The Fox Islands Passes are waterways in the Fox Islands area of the U.S. state of Alaska, connecting the Bering Sea with the North Pacific Ocean.

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Frederick Sound

Frederick Sound (also called Prince Frederick Sound or Prince Frederick's Sound) is a passage of water in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska that separates Kupreanof Island to the south from Admiralty Island in the north.

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Gasoline

Gasoline or petrol is a petrochemical product characterized as a transparent, yellowish, and flammable liquid normally used as a fuel for spark-ignited internal combustion engines.

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Gdynia

Gdynia (Gdiniô; Gdingen, Gotenhafen) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast.

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Geography of Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is an island country in East Asia.

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Ghent

Ghent (Gent; Gand; historically known as Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar).

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Gilbert and Ellice Islands

The Gilbert and Ellice Islands (GEIC as a colony) in the Pacific Ocean were part of the British Empire from 1892 to 1976.

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Glamorgan

Until 1974, Glamorgan, or sometimes Glamorganshire (Morgannwg or Sir Forgannwg), was an administrative county in the south of Wales, and later classed as one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales.

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Goole

Goole is a port town and civil parish on the River Ouse in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Gross register tonnage

Gross register tonnage (GRT, grt, g.r.t., gt), or gross registered tonnage, is a ship's total internal volume expressed in "register tons", each of which is equal to.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.

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HMAS Wyatt Earp

HMAS Wyatt Earp (formerly known as FV Fanefjord, MV Wyatt Earp, and HMAS Wongala) was a motor vessel commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1939 to 1945 and again from 1947 to 1948. List of shipwrecks in 1959 and HMAS Wyatt Earp are maritime incidents in 1959.

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Hulk (ship type)

A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of going to sea.

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Ignition system

Ignition systems are used by heat engines to initiate combustion by igniting the fuel-air mixture.

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Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ ''WYTE'') is an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, across the Solent.

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Kent

Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.

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Ketchikan, Alaska

Ketchikan (Kichx̱áan) is a city in and the borough seat of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough on Revillagigedo Island of Alaska.

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Kiltan

Kiltan or Kilthān Island is a coral island belonging to the Amindivi Subgroup of islands of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep in India.

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Kodiak Archipelago

The Kodiak Archipelago (translit) is an archipelago (group of islands) south of the main land-mass of the state of Alaska (United States), about by air south-west of Anchorage in the Gulf of Alaska.

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Kodiak, Alaska

The City of Kodiak (Alutiiq: Sun'aq) is the main city and one of seven communities on Kodiak Island in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska.

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Kuchinoshima

, literally "mouth island", is one of the Tokara Islands, belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture.

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La Main Rouge

La Main Rouge (The Red Hand) was a French terrorist organization operated by the French foreign intelligence agency Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service), or SDECE, in the 1950s. List of shipwrecks in 1959 and La Main Rouge are maritime incidents in 1959.

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Laccadive Islands

The Laccadive or Kannur Islands are one of the three island subgroups in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep, India.

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Lake Champlain

Lake Champlain (Lac Champlain) is a natural freshwater lake in North America.

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Lake Huron

Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.

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Landing Ship, Tank

Landing Ship, Tank (LST), or tank landing ship, is the naval designation for ships first developed during World War II (1939–1945) to support amphibious operations by carrying tanks, vehicles, cargo, and landing troops directly onto a low slope beach with no docks or piers.

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Lavrio

Lavrio, Lavrion or Laurium (Λαύριο; Λαύρειον (later Λαύριον); from Middle Ages until 1908: Εργαστήρια Ergastiria) is a town in southeastern part of Attica, Greece.

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Le Havre

Le Havre (Lé Hâvre) is a major port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France.

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Liberty ship

Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program.

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Lifeboat (rescue)

A rescue lifeboat is a boat rescue craft which is used to attend a vessel in distress, or its survivors, to rescue crew and passengers.

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Lightship

A lightvessel, or lightship, is a ship that acts as a lighthouse.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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Lituya Bay

Lituya Bay (Tlingit: Ltu.aa,. Spelled L'tua in translation of Tebenkov's log. meaning 'lake within the point') is a fjord located on the coast of the south-east part of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Livorno

Livorno is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of the Tuscany region, Italy.

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Llangennith

Llangennith (Llangenydd/Llangynydd) is a village in the City and County of Swansea, South Wales.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Madeira

Madeira, officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (Região Autónoma da Madeira), is one of two autonomous regions of Portugal, the other being the Azores.

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Makronisos

Makronisos (Μακρόνησος, lit. Long Island), or Makronisi, is an island in the Aegean Sea, in Greece, notorious as the site of a political prison from the 1920s to the 1970s.

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Marine insurance

Marine insurance covers the physical loss or damage of ships, cargo, terminals, and any transport by which the property is transferred, acquired, or held between the points of origin and the final destination.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Minesweeper

A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines.

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Montpellier

Montpellier (Montpelhièr) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea.

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Motor ship

A motor ship or motor vessel is a ship propelled by an internal combustion engine, usually a diesel engine.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Nagoya

is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city proper with a population of 2.3million in 2020, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the third-most populous metropolitan area in Japan with a population of 10.11million.

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Nile

The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.

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Ninilchik, Alaska

Ninilchik (Dena'ina: Niqnalchint, Нинильчик) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States.

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North Riding of Yorkshire

The North Riding of Yorkshire was a subdivision of Yorkshire, England, alongside York, the East Riding and West Riding.

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Ocean liner

An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans.

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Okha, India

Okha is a coastal town in Devbhoomi Dwarka district of Gujarat state in India.

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Oslo

Oslo (or; Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Ostend

Ostend (Oostende,; Ostende; Ostende; Ostende, literally "East End") is a coastal city and municipality, located in the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Palawan

Palawan, officially the Province of Palawan (Probinsya i'ang Palawan; Lalawigan ng Palawan), is an archipelagic province of the Philippines that is located in the region of Mimaropa.

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Panama Canal Zone

The Panama Canal Zone (Zona del Canal de Panamá), also simply known as the Canal Zone, was a concession of the United States located in the Isthmus of Panama that existed from 1903 to 1979.

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Passenger ship

A passenger ship is a merchant ship whose primary function is to carry passengers on the sea.

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Patrol boat

A patrol boat (also referred to as a patrol craft, patrol ship, or patrol vessel) is a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence, border security, or law enforcement.

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Petrol engine

A petrol engine (gasoline engine in American and Canadian English) is an internal combustion engine designed to run on petrol (gasoline).

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Pilot boat

A pilot boat is a type of boat used to transport maritime pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting.

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Piraeus

Piraeus (Πειραιάς; Πειραιεύς; Ancient:, Katharevousa) is a port city within the Athens-Piraeus urban area, in the Attica region of Greece.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Reykjanes

Reykjanes is a small headland on the south-western end of the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland, giving the main peninsula its name.

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River Avon, Bristol

The River Avon is a river in the southwest of England.

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River Hull

The River Hull is a navigable river in the East Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England.

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Rockingham, Western Australia

Rockingham is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located 47 km south-south-west of the city centre.

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Salaberry-de-Valleyfield

Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Regional County Municipality of Beauharnois-Salaberry.

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Salisbury Sound

Salisbury Sound is a sound between the north shore of Kruzof Island and the southwestern end of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.

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Sète

Sète (Seta), also historically spelled Cette (official until 1928) and Sette, is a commune in the Hérault department, in the region of Occitania, southern France.

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scuttling

A ship is scuttled when its crew deliberately sinks it, typically by opening holes in its hull.

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Ship

A ship is a large vessel that travels the world's oceans and other navigable waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research and fishing.

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Ship's tender

A ship's tender, usually referred to as a tender, is a boat or ship used to service or support other boats or ships.

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Sidi Slimane Air Base

Sidi Slimane Air Base was a military air base in Sidi Slimane, a city in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region in Morocco.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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Sitka Sound

Sitka Sound is a body of water near the city of Sitka, Alaska.

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Sitka, Alaska

Sitka (Sheetʼká; Ситка) is a unified city-borough in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Somerset

Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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South Australia

South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Southcentral Alaska

Southcentral Alaska (Юго-Центральная Аляска), also known as the Gulf Coast Region,Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Northern Opportunity Alaska's Economic Development Strategy, 2016, at 84 (Alaska 2016).

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Southeast Alaska

Southeast Alaska, often abbreviated to southeast or southeastern, and sometimes called the Alaska(n) panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, bordered to the east and north by the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia (and a small part of Yukon).

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spencer Gulf

The Spencer Gulf is the westernmost and larger of two large inlets (the other being Gulf St Vincent) on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, facing the Great Australian Bight.

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Spiekeroog

Spiekeroog is one of the East Frisian Islands, off the North Sea coast of Germany.

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Spurn Lightship

The Spurn Lightship (LV No. 12) is a lightvessel (i.e. a ship used as a lighthouse), previously anchored in Hull Marina in the British city of Kingston upon Hull, England. List of shipwrecks in 1959 and Spurn Lightship are maritime incidents in 1959.

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SS The Emerald

SS The Emerald was a cruise ship owned by Louis Cruise Lines (now Celestyal Cruises). List of shipwrecks in 1959 and sS The Emerald are maritime incidents in 1959.

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Stavanger

Stavanger (US usually) is a city and municipality in Norway.

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Steamship

A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.

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Stephens Passage

Stephens Passage is a channel in the Alexander Archipelago in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Strait of Tartary

Strait of Tartary or Gulf of Tartary (Татарский пролив;; Mamiya Strait; 타타르 해협) is a strait in the Pacific Ocean dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin from mainland Asia (South-East Russia), connecting the Sea of Okhotsk (Nevelskoy Strait) on the north with the Sea of Japan on the south.

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Stratoni

Stratoni (Στρατώνι) is a community of 992 inhabitants (2021 census), situated on the north-eastern coast of the Chalkidiki peninsula, in Northern Greece.

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Submarine

A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

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Sumner Strait

Sumner Strait is a strait in the Alexander Archipelago in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Swing bridge

A swing bridge (or swing span bridge) is a movable bridge that can be rotated horizontally around a vertical axis.

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T2 tanker

The T2 tanker, or T2, was a class of oil tanker constructed and produced in large numbers in the United States during World War II.

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Tabuaeran

Tabuaeran, also known as Fanning Island, is an atoll that is part of the Line Islands of the central Pacific Ocean and part of the island nation of Kiribati.

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Tacoma Boatbuilding Company

Tacoma Boatbuilding Company (sometimes Tacoma Boat) was a shipyard at 1840 Marine View Drive, Tacoma, Washington, in the United States.

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Tanker (ship)

A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk.

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Thunder Bay Island

Thunder Bay Island is a island in Lake Huron.

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Timaru

Timaru (Te Tihi-o-Maru) is a port city in the southern Canterbury Region of New Zealand, located southwest of Christchurch and about northeast of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific coast of the South Island.

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Torpedo

A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target.

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Total loss

In insurance claims, a total loss or write-off is a situation where the lost value, repair cost or salvage cost of a damaged property exceeds its insured value, and simply replacing the old property with a new equivalent is more cost-effective.

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Trinity House

The Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond, also known as Trinity House (and formally as The Master, Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent), is the official authority for lighthouses in England, Wales, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar.

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Tugboat

A tugboat or tug is a marine vessel that manoeuvres other vessels by pushing or pulling them, with direct contact or a tow line.

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Tunisia

Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.

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Turku

Turku (Åbo) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland.

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Typhoon Vera

Typhoon Vera, also known as the, was an exceptionally intense tropical cyclone that struck Japan in September 1959, becoming the strongest and deadliest typhoon on record to make landfall on the country as a Category 5 equivalent storm.

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Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Weser

The Weser is a river of Lower Saxony in north-west Germany.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1959

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