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List of shipwrecks in 1997, the Glossary

The list of shipwrecks in 1997 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1997.^[1]

164 relations: Afognak, Akun Island, Alaska, Alaska Peninsula, Aleutian Islands, Alexander Archipelago, Anchor, Andaman Sea, Artificial reef, Atlantic Ocean, Baja California, Baranof Island, Barge, Barren Islands, Bering Sea, Boating, Bressay, Bridge (nautical), Bristol Bay, British Columbia, Cabin cruiser, California, Canada, Cape May, Cape Muzon, Cape Spencer (Alaska), Capsizing, Cherbourg, Cod, Cold Bay, Alaska, Container ship, Cook Inlet, Cornwall, Crab, Crab fisheries, Crew boat, Dall Island, Dive boat, Dixon Entrance, Dunsborough, Western Australia, Dutch Harbor, Eastern Point Light, Elfin Cove, Alaska, Engine room, English Channel, Ensenada, Baja California, Evans Island, Factory ship, Fishing trawler, Fishing vessel, ... Expand index (114 more) »
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Maritime incidents in 1997

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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Akun Island

Akun Island (Akungan) is one of the Fox Islands subgroup of the Aleutian Islands in the Aleutians East Borough of southwestern 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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The Alaska Peninsula (also called Aleut Peninsula or Aleutian Peninsula, Alasxix̂; Sugpiaq: Aluuwiq, Al'uwiq) is a peninsula extending about to the southwest from the mainland of Alaska and ending in the Aleutian Islands.

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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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Anchor

An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current.

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Andaman Sea

The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and the west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated from the Bay of Bengal to its west by the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands.

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Artificial reef

An artificial reef (AR) is a human-created freshwater or marine benthic structure.

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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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Baja California

Baja California ('Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California (Free and Sovereign State of Baja California), is a state in Mexico.

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Baranof Island

Baranof Island is an island in the northern Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle, in Alaska.

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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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Barren Islands

The Barren Islands (Sugpiaq: Usu'unaat) are an archipelago in Alaska in the United States.

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Bering Sea

The Bering Sea (p) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean.

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Boating

Boating is the leisurely activity of travelling by boat, or the recreational use of a boat whether powerboats, sailboats, or man-powered vessels (such as rowing and paddle boats), focused on the travel itself, as well as sports activities, such as fishing or waterskiing.

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Bressay

Bressay is a populated island in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland.

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Bridge (nautical)

Sikuliaq'', docked in Ketchikan, Alaska Wheelhouse on a tugboat, topped with a flying bridge A bridge (also known as a command deck), or wheelhouse (also known as a pilothouse), is a room or platform of a ship or submarine from which the ship can be commanded.

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Bristol Bay

Bristol Bay (Iilgayaq, Залив Бристольский) is the easternmost arm of the Bering Sea, at 57° to 59° North 157° to 162° West in Southwest Alaska.

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British Columbia

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

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Cabin cruiser

A cabin cruiser is a type of power boat that provides accommodation for its crew and passengers inside the structure of the craft.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Cape May

Cape May consists of a peninsula and barrier island system in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Cape Muzon

Cape Muzon is a cape located in the Alexander Archipelago of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Cape Spencer (Alaska)

Cape Spencer is a headland on the Alaska shore, at the side of the entrance to Cross Sound west of Juneau, Alaska.

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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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Cherbourg

Cherbourg is a former commune and subprefecture located at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French department of Manche.

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Cod

Cod (cod) is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae.

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Cold Bay, Alaska

Cold Bay (Udaamagax,; Sugpiaq: Pualu) is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States.

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Container ship

A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization.

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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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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Crab

Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the thorax (brachyura means "short tail" in Greek).

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Crab fisheries

Crab fisheries are fisheries which capture or farm crabs.

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Crew boat

A crew boat, also called a crewboat, crew transfer vessel, fast support vessel, fast supply vessel or fast intervention supply vessel, is a vessel specialized in the transport of offshore support personnel, deck cargo, and below-deck cargo such as fuel and potable water to and from offshore installations such as oil platforms, drilling rigs, drill and dive ships or wind farms.

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Dall Island

Dall Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago off the southeast coast of Alaska, just west of Prince of Wales Island and north of Canadian waters.

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Dive boat

A dive boat is a boat that recreational divers or professional scuba divers use to reach a dive site which they could not conveniently reach by swimming from the shore.

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Dixon Entrance

The Dixon Entrance (Entrée Dixon) is a strait about long and wide in the Pacific Ocean at the Canada–United States border, between the U.S. state of Alaska and the province of British Columbia in Canada.

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Dunsborough, Western Australia

Dunsborough is a coastal town in the South West of Western Australia, south of Perth, on the shores of Geographe Bay.

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Dutch Harbor

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

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Eastern Point Light

Eastern Point Light is a historic lighthouse on Cape Ann, in northeastern Massachusetts.It is known as the oldest seaport in America.

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Elfin Cove, Alaska

Elfin Cove (Lingít: X̱’óot’k’) is a census-designated place (CDP) near the northwestern corner of Chichagof Island in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, United States.

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Engine room

On a ship, the engine room (ER) is the compartment where the machinery for marine propulsion is located.

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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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Ensenada, Baja California

Ensenada is a city in Ensenada Municipality, Baja California, situated on the Pacific Coast of Mexico.

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Evans Island

Evans Island is an island in the Prince William Sound of southern Alaska.

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Factory ship

A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish or whales.

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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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Freeport, Bahamas

Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone on the island of Grand Bahama of the northwest Bahamas.

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Fuel oil

Fuel oil is any of various fractions obtained from the distillation of petroleum (crude oil).

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Gastineau Channel

Gastineau Channel (Lingít: Séet Ká) is a channel between the mainland of the U.S. state of Alaska and Douglas Island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska.

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Gloucester, Massachusetts

Gloucester is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Gravel

Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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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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Gross tonnage

Gross tonnage (GT, G.T. or gt) is a nonlinear measure of a ship's overall internal volume.

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Gulf of Alaska

The Gulf of Alaska (Tlingit: Yéil T'ooch’) is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east, where Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage are found.

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Haiti

Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.

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Harvey Cedars, New Jersey

Harvey Cedars is a coastal borough situated on the Jersey Shore, in southern Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Hawser

Hawser is a nautical term for a thick rope used in mooring or towing a ship.

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Herring

Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.

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Hinchinbrook Island (Alaska)

Hinchinbrook Island (Хинчинбрук) is an island in the Gulf of Alaska lying at the entrance to Prince William Sound in the state of Alaska, United States.

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Homer, Alaska

Homer (Dena'ina: Tuggeght) is a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Hypothermia

Hypothermia is defined as a body core temperature below in humans.

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Icing (nautical)

Icing on ships is a serious hazard where cold temperatures (below about) combined with high wind speed (typically force 8 or above on the Beaufort scale) result in spray blown off the sea freezing immediately on contact with the ship.

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In situ

In situ (often not italicized in English) is a Latin phrase that translates literally to "on site" or "in position." It can mean "locally", "on site", "on the premises", or "in place" to describe where an event takes place and is used in many different contexts.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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Kachemak Bay

Kachemak Bay (Dena'ina: Tika Kaq’) is a 40-mi-long (64 km) arm of Cook Inlet in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southwest side of the Kenai Peninsula.

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Kauai

Kauai, anglicized as Kauai, is one of the main Hawaiian Islands.

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Ketch

A ketch is a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post.

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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 Island

Kodiak Island (Qikertaq, Кадьяк) is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait.

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Land's End

Land's End (Cornish Standard Written Form or Pedn an Wlas) is a headland and tourist and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the Penwith peninsula about west-south-west of Penzance at the western end of the A30 road.

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Lego

Lego (stylised as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark.

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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; translit, translit; also known as the Tamil Tigers) was a Tamil militant organization that was based in the northern and eastern Sri Lanka.

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Lifeboat (shipboard)

A lifeboat or liferaft is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship.

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Long Beach Township, New Jersey

Long Beach Township is a Walsh Act Township situated on the Jersey Shore, in southeastern Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Longline fishing

Longline fishing, or longlining, is a commercial fishing angling technique that uses a long main line with baited hooks attached at intervals via short branch lines called snoods or gangions.

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Mandal, Norway

Mandal is a town in Lindesnes municipality in Agder county, Norway.

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Mantoloking, New Jersey

Mantoloking is a coastal borough in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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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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Marine salvage

Marine salvage is the process of recovering a ship and its cargo after a shipwreck or other maritime casualty.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Metlakatla, Alaska

Metlakatla (Tsimshian: Maxłakxaała or Wil uks t’aa mediik; Lingít: Tàakw.àani) is a census-designated place (CDP) on Annette Island in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, United States.

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Minelayer

A minelayer is any warship, submarine, military aircraft or land vehicle deploying explosive mines.

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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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MS King Cruiser

MS King Cruiser was a car ferry that sank off the West Coast of Southern Thailand on 4 May 1997. List of shipwrecks in 1997 and MS King Cruiser are maritime incidents in 1997.

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Mullaitivu

Mullaitivu (translit; translit) is the main town of Mullaitivu District, situated on the north-eastern coast of Northern Province, Sri Lanka.

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Nanwalek, Alaska

Nanwalek (‘place by lagoon’; Нануалек), formerly Alexandrovsk (Александровск) and later English Bay, is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States, that contains a traditional Alutiiq village.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Ocean City, New Jersey

Ocean City is a city in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Oil tanker

An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products.

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Okaloosa County, Florida

Okaloosa County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, extending from the Gulf of Mexico to the Alabama state line.

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Pacific Ocean

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

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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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PCE-842-class patrol craft

The PCE-842-class patrol craft escort was a United States Navy (USN) ship class of submarine chasers designed during World War II.

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Perl Island

Perl Island, also known as Pearl Island, is a mountainous island off the Kenai Peninsula coast of Alaska.

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Phi Phi Islands

The Phi Phi Islands (หมู่เกาะพีพี) are an island group in Thailand between the large island of Phuket and the Straits of Malacca coast of Thailand.

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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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Pribilof Islands

The Pribilof Islands (formerly the Northern Fur Seal Islands; Amiq, Ostrova Pribylova) are a group of four volcanic islands off the coast of mainland Alaska, in the Bering Sea, about north of Unalaska and 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Cape Newenham.

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Prince William Sound

Prince William Sound (Sugpiaq: Suungaaciq) is a sound off the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Research vessel

A research vessel (RV or R/V) is a ship or boat designed, modified, or equipped to carry out research at sea.

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Resurrection Bay

Resurrection Bay, also known as Blying Sound, and Harding Gateway in its outer reaches, is a fjord on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, United States.

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Rogue wave

Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, episodic waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves) are huge and unpredictable surface waves that can be extremely dangerous to ships and isolated structures such as lighthouses.

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Sailing ship

A sailing ship is a sea-going vessel that uses sails mounted on masts to harness the power of wind and propel the vessel.

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Salmon

Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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Sand Point, Alaska

Sand Point, also known as Popof Island, is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States.

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Scupper

A scupper is an opening in the side walls of a vessel or an open-air structure, which allows water to drain instead of pooling within the bulwark or gunwales of a vessel, or within the curbing or walls of a building.

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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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Sea captain

A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant vessel.

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Sea Girt, New Jersey

Sea Girt is a borough situated on the Jersey Shore, within Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Sea trial

A sea trial is the testing phase of a watercraft (including boats, ships, and submarines).

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Seine-Maritime

Seine-Maritime is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France.

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Shaped charge

A shaped charge is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the explosive's energy.

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Shetland

Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway.

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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 commissioning

Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning.

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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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Ship's wheel

A ship's wheel or boat's wheel is a device used aboard a water vessel to steer that vessel and control its course.

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Shipping container

A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling.

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Shrimp fishery

The shrimp fishery is a major global industry, with more than 3.4 million tons caught per year, chiefly in Asia.

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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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Sitkalidak Island

Sitkalidak Island (Ситкалидак) is an island in the western Gulf of Alaska in the Kodiak Island Borough of the state of Alaska, United States.

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Skiff

A skiff is any of a variety of essentially unrelated styles of small boats, usually propelled by sails or oars.

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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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Sri Lanka Navy

The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) (Śrī Laṃkā nāvika hamudāva; Ilaṅkai kaṭaṟpaṭai) is the naval arm of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and is classed as the country's most vital defence force due to its island geography.

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Sri Lankan Civil War

The Sri Lankan Civil War (śrī laṁkāvē sivil yuddhaya; Ilaṅkai uḷnāṭṭup pōr) was a civil war fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009.

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St Mary's, Isles of Scilly

St Mary's (The Mainland) is the largest and most populous island of the Isles of Scilly, an archipelago off the southwest coast of Cornwall in England, United Kingdom.

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St. Paul, Alaska

St.

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Stepovak Bay

Stepovak Bay is a bay located on the Alaska Peninsula, Alaska, on the Gulf of Alaska.

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Strait of Otranto

The Strait of Otranto (Ngushtica e Otrantos; Canale d'Otranto) connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from Albania.

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Survival suit

A survival suit, more accurately and currently referred to as an immersion suit, is a type of waterproof dry suit intended to protect the wearer from hypothermia if immersed in cold water or otherwise exposed after abandoning a vessel, especially in the open ocean.

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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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Territory of Alaska

The Territory of Alaska or Alaska Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from August 24, 1912, until Alaska was granted statehood on January 3, 1959.

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Thames Barrier

The Thames Barrier is a retractable barrier system built to protect the floodplain of most of Greater London from exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the North Sea.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Tire

A tire (North American English) or tyre (Commonwealth English) is a ring-shaped component that surrounds a wheel's rim to transfer a vehicle's load from the axle through the wheel to the ground and to provide traction on the surface over which the wheel travels.

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Tokio Express

Tokio Express was a container ship, built and registered in Hamburg in 1973 for Hapag-Lloyd. List of shipwrecks in 1997 and Tokio Express are maritime incidents in 1997.

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Tokyo Bay

is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan spanning the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture.

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Towing

Towing is coupling two or more objects together so that they may be pulled by a designated power source or sources.

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Tragedy of Otranto

The Tragedy of Otranto took place on 28 March 1997 when the Albanian ship Kateri i Radës sank in a collision with the in the Strait of Otranto and at least 84 Albanians, aged 3 months to 69 years, lost their lives. List of shipwrecks in 1997 and Tragedy of Otranto are maritime incidents in 1997.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1997

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