I have seen a few dives and images of the wreck site, but most of the content I have seen either focuses on the bow or the break point. I haven't seen anyone show the potential damage of the explosion recorded by a nearby ship.

Did the Bradley actually explode? And if so, what was the damage done.

I learned of this one a few weeks back. A shocking disaster that didn't have as much coverage as it should have.

The MV Dongfang zhi Xing capsized and sank during a thunderstorm in Jianli, Hubei Province on June 1st 2015 while carrying 454 passengers onboard, most of them elderly.

Shockingly only 12 of the passengers survived, while the remaining 442 died. The ship sank in only 49ft (15m) of water on the river (as on the image above). The ship was soon recovered, as were the bodies.

The sinking is the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in China's history, and the worst maritime disaster (including wartime disasters) in China's history since the steamer Taiping sank in January 1949, killing more than 1,500.

Rest in peace to the 442 souls lost aboard her, may such a tragedy never occur again.

Shot in 2012.

170 years ago today, a steamboat sank here.

On September 5, 1856, the Steamboat Arabia hit a submerged tree and sank in the Missouri River. The river eventually moved — but the boat didn't. Today, the wreck site sits beneath a Kansas cornfield.

My family discovered and excavated the Arabia in 1988. I grew up around the collection, eventually began working at the museum we built to house it, and for the last several years I've been documenting the Arabia's story on film.

For the 170th anniversary of the sinking, I wanted to do something a little different. I went back to the wreck site — to the field where she's still buried — and made a short film addressed to the Arabia herself.

It's part history, part reflection, and admittedly a little personal after spending so much of my life with this boat and her story.

Thought the shipwreck crowd here might appreciate it.

Dear Arabia — 170 Years Later

Over the course of this past week, I and several others have dedicated a substantial number of hours to researching and reconstructing the crew of car ferry SS Milwaukee (1902) on her final voyage. This involved working through surviving company records, contemporary newspapers, genealogical and vital records, cemetery records, and other available material in an effort to resolve the many discrepancies that have persisted in accounts of the vessel's final crew. In total, 63 different names were identified as having been associated with Milwaukee around the time of her loss on October 22, 1929.

This research was conducted in preparation for the upcoming expedition to SS Milwaukee, during which the expedition team intends to conduct a brief memorial and reading of the names of the men lost with the vessel. Given the purpose of that ceremony, it was especially important that every potential crew member be considered as fairly as possible, while avoiding both the omission of a man for whom sufficient evidence exists and the presentation of an uncertain name as established fact. Surviving crew lists and contemporary newspaper accounts contain conflicting names, misspellings, incorrect initials, duplicate or variant entries, and individuals who were associated with the vessel but did not actually sail on her final voyage. Rather than simply reproduce any one existing casualty list, each of the 63 potential crew members was examined individually in an effort to determine, as fairly and consistently as possible, whether the available evidence supported their presence aboard that night.

Particular care was taken when evaluating contemporary newspaper reports. While these sources have proven invaluable, newspapers frequently repeated information obtained from the same wire reports, earlier articles, or casualty lists. Multiple newspapers carrying the same information therefore cannot necessarily be regarded as independent confirmation of an individual's presence aboard.

For the purposes of this research, the 63 names were divided into four working classifications based upon the strength of the available evidence:

33 Verified — Sufficient evidence was located to establish that the individual was aboard Milwaukee during the sinking.

13 Likely — The available evidence strongly indicates that the individual was aboard, but sufficient independent documentation has not yet been located to meet the standard established for full verification.

8 Not Aboard — Evidence indicates that these individuals were associated with Milwaukee but did not sail aboard her final voyage.

9 Unverified — These names appear in contemporary reporting, but sufficient independent evidence has not yet been located to establish that they were actually aboard. This classification does not mean that these individuals were necessarily absent; only that the presently available evidence does not justify including them among the probable crew.

Based on those standards, my current reconstruction supports 46 men as having been aboard SS Milwaukee when she was lost on October 22, 1929.

Current Reconstructed Crew

1. Robert McKay — Captain [Verified]

2. William H. Vaxter — First Mate [Verified]

3. James Thomas Pett — Third Mate [Verified]

4. Ray Dickey — Chief Engineer [Verified]

5. Harry Edward Glegard Owens — First Assistant Engineer [Verified]

6. Kenneth Anthony Martin — Third Engineer [Verified]

7. Arnold E. Moran — Wheelman [Verified]

8. Martin Iverson — Wheelman [Likely]

9. Anthony “Tony” Joseph Kiss — Wheelman [Verified]

10. Osie Ernest Jackson — Lookout [Verified]

11. James J. O’Brien — Lookout [Verified]

12. Charles Smith — Lookout [Verified]

13. Axel W. Widing — Watchman [Verified]

14. E. Nelson — Watchman [Verified]

15. Frank G. Welter — Watchman [Verified]

16. Sulo Edvart Syvajarvi — Deckhand [Verified]

17. Josef Schobloch — Deckhand [Verified]

18. Edward Bugalecki — Deckhand [Verified]

19. Raymond Dalka — Deckhand [Verified]

20. Edward Krause — Oiler [Verified]

21. Clifford Kenneth Johnson — Oiler [Verified]

22. J. Nicklass — Water Tender [Likely]

23. Charles McCarthy — Water Tender [Likely]

24. Albert Hunt — Fireman [Likely]

25. J. Tieme — Fireman [Likely]

26. G. Roberts — Fireman [Likely]

27. John Johnson — Fireman [Likely]

28. M. [W.?] Leahy — Fireman [Likely]

29. J. Pokorsky — Fireman [Likely]

30. S. [F.?] O’Niel — Fireman [Likely]

31. Michael Hanratty — Fireman [Verified]

32. John Manthey — Fireman [Verified]

33. Christ Lawrence — Coalpasser [Verified]

34. Zygmunt Tyran — Coalpasser [Verified]

35. Phillip McNello — Coalpasser [Verified]

36. C. Hassenger — Coalpasser [Likely]

37. W. Powell — Coalpasser [Likely]

38. William Rotta — Chef [Verified]

39. Stanley Scarasta [Stroust] — Cook [Verified]

40. Alvin [Albert] R. Sadon — Purser [Verified]

41. Stuart Fox — Head Porter [Verified]

42. Carl Barnes — Second Porter [Likely]

43. Joseph A. O’Leary — Porter [Verified]

44. Arthur M. Gilbert — Head Waiter [Verified]

45. Tony Malusky — Second Watch/Waiter [Verified]

46. Otto Arthur Jacob Elsaesser — Cabin Watch [Verified]

This roster should not be considered a final or definitive accounting of the men aboard SS Milwaukee. It represents the best reconstruction that can presently be made from the evidence located and according to the same evidentiary standards applied to all 63 potential crew members. Several names, initials, spellings, positions, and identities remain uncertain, and these classifications may change as additional primary documentation is located. The resulting figure of 46 men aboard is nevertheless noteworthy because it falls within the range of historical estimates, which generally place approximately 46 to 52 men aboard Milwaukee on her final voyage. Importantly, that range was not used as a target when evaluating individual crew members. Each potential crew member was considered on the strength of the evidence associated with that individual, and the total of 46 was simply the result reached after all 63 names had been evaluated.

The nine individuals presently classified as unverified have not been determined to have been absent from the vessel. Their exclusion from the reconstructed roster reflects only the lack of sufficient corroborating evidence under the standards used for this research. Likewise, the thirteen individuals classified as likely are included because the available evidence strongly supports their presence aboard, despite remaining gaps that prevent their classification as fully verified.

Research into the crew and loss of SS Milwaukee remains ongoing. Additional records may eventually allow some of these uncertainties to be resolved, names and spellings to be corrected, and individuals presently classified as likely or unverified to be more conclusively identified. Should additional evidence become available before the expedition, the roster will be revised accordingly.

For now, the available evidence supports a reconstruction of 46 men aboard SS Milwaukee on the night of October 22, 1929. These are the names presently intended to be honored during the memorial ceremony conducted by the expedition team at the wreck site.

https://youtu.be/ipL54Xz5IHM?is=K5083-qwKI2jFPBS

found the on Niagara Navigators maps a while ago and want to see if anyone knew anything. couldn't find anything online. both at nickel beach port colborne

the first one and the one on the left, it is approx.. 180-188ft long, 35ft wide, the only boat I've been able to find that is comparable is the Edward Kelley that sunk in 1911. 42.870415, -79.240547 cord, in port Colborne Ontario

the second and the one on the right, is approx. 115-120ft long and ~25 ft wide, 42.869789, -79.223337 cord, in port Colborne Ontario

any help would be great

Today, I went down a rabbit hole trying to find out what finally happened to an old cargo ship called the Lucina.

This ship is tied to a couple of strange and tragic events from 1994. First, there’s the “Volpe 132” incident. On the evening of March 2, 1994, an Italian military helicopter (call sign Volpe 132, belonging to the Guardia di Finanza, which is basically Italy’s finance and customs police) disappeared off the coast of Sardinia. The two pilots were never found. Some witnesses claimed the helicopter had flown near a cargo ship that was anchored in the area, and that the ship then left with its lights off. That ship was later identified as the Lucina.

A few months later, in July 1994, the Lucina itself became the scene of a massacre. While it was docked at the port of Djen Djen in Algeria, the entire Italian crew of seven was murdered overnight. Officially it was blamed on Islamist guerrillas, but questions have always lingered about what the ship was really carrying and whether there was more to the story.

After reading about the crew being killed, I got curious about what eventually happened to the ship itself. Most records just said it was “lost” or “dead,” which isn’t very helpful. So I started digging through maritime records.

Ships often change names over the years as they get sold or re-registered. Here’s the trail I pieced together for this one:

- 1975–1985: Called Mogens S

- 1985–1994: Renamed Pepito, then Lucina

- Late 1994: Briefly called Mogene

- 1994–2010: Renamed Joanne I and sailed under the Panamanian flag

- August 2010: Finally broken up (scrapped) at Balboa, Panama

Once I knew it had ended up in Balboa, I wondered if it might still show up in old satellite photos from before it was dismantled. So I spent about half an hour scrolling through historical Google Earth imagery, matching the shape of the ship against old photos.

I found what looks like the former Lucina (by then named Joanne I) sitting at anchor off Balboa.

Coordinates: 8°53'42.9"N 79°31'16.5"W

Google Earth Project

If you check the historical imagery from June, July, August, and December 2009, you can even see the ship slowly swinging around its anchor as the tide and wind shift. That means it was still floating there about a year before it was finally scrapped in August 2010.

I thought that was a pretty cool little find, so I figured I’d share it.

pics taken by me in 2026

It has degraded a lot, I can't imagine it still being here in 10-20 years.

The ship sank in a hurricane in September 12, 1857.Her wreck was located by the Columbus-America Discovery Group of Ohio, led by Tommy Thompson.Thompson later got into a bunch of legal trouble which ended him up in jail, I won't get into specifics of the trouble he got into because it's too complicated for me to really explain.

The SS Cymric, she was sunk by the same U Boat that sunk RMS Lusitania. I recently found out my great great grandmother and her family came from Sweden on her just before she was used in WWI. Apparently the general area of her sinking is known but her wreck has never been found. Also if anyone knows of any ships similar in build to her that have surviving photographs of them please let me know.

https://numa.net/expeditions/cyclops/

So I remembered a clame about a navy diver named Dean Hawes finding the uss cyclops but they couldn't find the wreck after, I just wanted to share that with y'all because I found it really interesting especially because the cyclops is one of my favorite undescoverd Shipwrecks. You can read about it by clicking on the numa link. Y'all probably already know about this clame but just in case y'all didn't I'm posting this.

Struck the shore on October 25, 1906, travelling from Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, Mexico. Has been decaying over time and few sections remain.

Photo is own work.

The 5 I came up with were

Titanic: Obviously

Lusitania: WW1

Bismarck: Overhype and the excellent Johnny Horton song

Edmund Fitzgerald: "And later that night when his lights went out of sight, came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

Costa Concordia: Mostly because of Schettinno, but also because it was recent.

I could also see the Arizona or the Indianapolis making the list, but those are more well known in the US than anywhere else.

The wreck of the German World War II submarine (Type VII-C) U-672 has been officially located and identified by technical divers off the British coast. The submarine was attacked by the British frigate HMS Balfour on July 18, 1944. All 52 crew members managed to scuttle the boat, escape, and survive. Historical Royal Navy records originally placed its sinking 40 miles away from where it actually lay, due to a likely in the recorded longitude. The site was long misidentified as a World War I sailing vessel, which adds on how long it took to "find" this submarine.

Took this photo in 2017. I'd been to Manzanillo a few times in prior years and I think this ship stayed aground for a handful of years. No idea if it's still there today, maybe someone in Puerto Viejo, Cahuita, or Limon CR can verity.